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At gunpoint that texas mum with four children pulled out of the car, wrongly pulled over and handcuffed by police. You cant say sorry, and im over it. I cant. [ cheers ] field of dreams the boys from chicago southside swinging their way to the Little League world championships. We are following breaking news for you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Live from new york city, im Morgan Radford. A strong quake rattled Central California before four in the morning passiving time. The 6. 0 quake was centered south of napper valleys wine country. Tremors all the way from San Francisco to sacramento. M...

Are spending much time at all training for the crater. I think it gets back to how we tend to want to remember this story. The story of the black Union Soldier is front and center. I couldnt be happier about that. I think theres been a danger in the way the story has been pushed over the last few years. It is the moral narrative of our civil war memory. We want to correct for forgetting about them for so long. I think we tend to gloss over some of the darker sides of black soldiers. I dont think were comfortable talking about black soldiers massacrering others. That doesnt fit into our minds r...

Believe that if those black regiments had been allowed to lead the assault, that would have been it. In other words, we can imagine black soldiers marching, charging over blanford hill, right, into petersburg. Thats a very soothing image. I think that tells us more about how we want to remember the war than the battle itself, because anyone who has studied civil war battles, they never go as planned. Right . Theres always something that goes afoul. So is it any surprise that given this massive detonation that no one really can predict what it will do to the landscape and whats beyond it. Remem...

Burning of washington during the war of 1812 this thursday from author and historian anthony pitch at an event hosted by the smithsonian associated. Our live coverage starts at 6 45 p. M. Eastern. And more next saturday, august 23rd as we take you live for a Panel Discussion on the events of 200 years ago. Thats live at 1 00 p. M. Eastern here on American History tv on cspan3. Next on the civil war, author cethen levin discussed the role of the u. S. Colored troops in the civil wars battle of the crater and the way their contributions were remembered in the years following the civil war. Organ...

Directed the American Heritage Rivers Initiative at the White House Council on environmental quality. Today miss newman will discuss the post war impact on the forts, on the surrounding neighborhoods in washington and their evolution into parks. And kim elder. Miss elder is the National Parks Services Program manager for civil war defenses of washington. She is responsible for the management, the Oversight Program development of 16 for 16 of the remaining forts and batteries opened and operated by the National Parks service. So today ms. Elder will highlight the parks today and provide us with...