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American story. Visit cspan. Org history for more information. We traveled to the Minnesota Historical society and hear about the 1920s and 30s gangster era. Bank robbers were seen as kind of anti heroes who were evening the score after the depression which is totally untrue. They were killers who wanted money, but the public saw the gangsters and a more romantic light. And you knew as you drank with them that they wouldnt kill you because they all had the deal between the cops and crooks. We start with a look at the influence st. Paul had on f. Scott fitzgeralds. You want to understand the mo...

Continues to spread. Africa liberias threat is closing schools. Anyone showing signs of the virus will be quarantined. Israel is calling 16,000 reservists showing that its far from over. Prime minister netanyahu telling his cabinet there will be no ceasefire until all hamas tunnels have been dismantled. With that its laid upon the table. T he gop sgayin the president has abused his power. Why this hating all the time. Come on. Newly releasedai emls from lois lerner she mace sp diaraging remarks about some republicans calling them crazy. A pilot is in injured, her passenger dead after a plane c...

Completion said there was really no Church Involvement there. Im not trying to depricate the church. Im asserting it played a central role but i dont want to give a tribute of monopoly of leadership to the church. In both reconstructions, the enthusiasm of white northerners started to wane, to decline when the price of black advancement rose. In the 1870s, we talked about the way in which just the need to police the white south became a price that was greater than what many white northerners were willing to pay, and thats one of the reasons the first reconstruction ended. In more recent times,...

Lecture on president Lyndon Johnsons war on poverty. Next melvin ely compares the reconstruction and civil rights eras. Its just over an hour. Here we are at the end of the semester and it strikes me as a Good Opportunity maybe to compare the reconstruction period that we started off talking about in this course with what some have called the second reconstruction, which is the time of the Civil Rights Movement of the 50s and 60s. Let me tell you, first, what i mean by the first reconstruction and the second reconstruction. By the first, i mean in not only postcivil war reconstruction, im incl...

At which the civil war is still very much a part of living memory. Right . There are livingductions of the war, people involved in combat who are still alive. In 1912, state of pennsylvania issued an invitation of honorably discharged veterans of the civil war to come to gettysburg for a reunion of sorts. And you probably have already seen pictures of this or read about it in David Wrights book. I want to spend a little time talking about that. That marked something of the high water mark. It was kind of the peak of their aspirations. They invaded the north. The defeat of gettysburg was in man...