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Nbc news special report from 1975 communist saigon on American History tv on cspan3. Up next on American History tv, law professor Lea Vandervelde tells the stories of slaves who use the law as a pathway to freedom in the precivil war era. She describes how slaves contributed to building frontier communities and discusses several legal cases that illustrate the struggles of both enslaved and freed blacks in the antebellum west. This event from the National Archives is about 45 minutes. Dr. Vandervelde i should say good morning. It is still morning, right . A few minutes until noon. I want to t...

Politics and prose fashion, today we present a book dealing with an American History of conspiracies just three days ago the c i a admitted a place known as area 51 does actually exists. Even though they dissolve all knowledge of any aliens, so called conspiracy theorists rejoiced. [laughter] the best way to sum up this book is page 8 where he says hundreds tend to write off political paranoia as a feature of the fringe. They are wrong. The fear of conspiracies has been a potent force across the political spectrum from the colonial era to the president , in the establishment as well as the str...

Which essentially, theres not one, so that is typically of history as well. Im really pleased to have Alison Fortier with us. She has worked at the state department. She also served in the National Security council at the white house, so she knows not only history but political history. We look forward to her remarks and welcome her to heritage. Alison. [applause] thank you very much very kind introduction and obviously, if i do a revision of this book, i need to consult you because i just learned a few things. You are very knowledgeable about washington. For those of us who live in washington...

Interesting photograph, and i think it speaks to sort of complex connections within africanamerican communities that involve gender as well as power. But beyond that, i dont know. Host well, professor hahn, what do going to the topic of the book what do we know wrongly about slavery in the u. S. . Guest well, one of the issues that i try to deal with in the book is the process by which slavery ended and the Geographical Reach of slavery. I think the view that tends to be handed down is by the 19th century, certainly the country neatly divide between the socalled free States States ste socalled...

The. To think about the question not based on your personal likes or dislikes for the true interpretation youre taught in. So the process could seem boring to the outsider but someone who loves law the way i do but the other half with interacting with the public, the Supreme Court gets visitors from around the world. I have met with School Children as young as second grade. Grammar school, high school, college, professiona l, not just law school by meet with students to be doctors, businessmen, and meet with groups of all kinds who meet with the justices to have a conversation judges from arou...