Nation. Like many americans, our staff to staying close to home due to the coronavirus. Next, a look at one of our cities tour visits. The pearl kind of mirrors what san antonio is. On one side, it is history and culture and a nod to the past, and on the other side it is a look forward to what san antonio has become, just the diversity and inclusivity and all the different kind of things that are happening. The city was created more than 300 years ago. It became a melting pot. The germans came in in the mid 1880s and built small breweries at the time, home breweries, maybe some of the smaller operations, and the Pearl Brewery kind of was born of that. The reason they came up with pearl was a german brewer saw in his beer the bubbles going up and said, those look like pearls, and so it became Pearl Brewery. The Pearl Brewery was in san antonio all the way until 2001, from the late 1800s until 2001, and then it fell into disrepair a little bit and was not around anymore and now it has been reborn. A billionaire named kit goldsbury who wanted to invest in his city came in and just revamped this entire place. One of the great things about it is it kind of represents a very interesting part of what san antonio has become, and that is a commitment to sustainability. When you look at Different Things around here, just the items, the sculptures, all the different stuff, when they tore apart the old brewery and they did all the different kind of things they were doing to kind of build this place back up, they took a lot of those old widgets and gizmos and everything that they used to use to make the beer and they made them into sculptures. They made them into lanterns and chandeliers and everything like that. So it is a really cool way to kind of look at how san antonio doesnt let anything go to waste. We really are all about repurposing and reclaiming what has been history here in this city. Can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country as cspan. Org cities tour. This is American History tv, only on cspan3. On lectures in history, university of pittsburgh professor Marcus Rediker teaches a class about the atlantic slave trade. He explores the portuguese and spanish origins of the trade soon after 1492, and, later, how plantations based on slave labor generated enormous concentrations of wealth. Professor rediker also discusses how traders acquired or captured slaves on the west african coast, and describes the horrible conditions on slave ships for captives during the middle passage. This lecture was recorded in 2010 inside the university of pittsburghs historic cathedral of learning building. Prof. Rediker ok, everybody. Greetings. Good morning