Thanks to all of you for helping us put this program together from terre haute, indiana, the eugene v. Debs home and museum. Tomorrow night on American History tv in primetime, republican president ial candidate Charles Evans hughes. A look at his 1916 campaign against Woodrow Wilson. Foreign policy is a Campaign Issue in that election, and his latest tenure of supreme justice of the Supreme Court. Thats at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time part of American History tv in primetime on cspan3. On saturday, cspans issue spotlight looks at police and Race Relations. Well show president obama at the me roirl service for five Police Officers shot and killed in dallas. When the bullets started flying, the men and women of the dallas police, they did not flinch, and they did not react recklessly. And South Carolina republican senator tim scott giving a speech on the senate floor about his own interactions with police. But the vast majority of the time, i was pulled over for nothing more than driving a n
Times for popular Public Affairs and history programs. Stay up to date on all the election coverage. Cspans radio app means you always have cspan op the go. Next on history book shelf, author james chace talks about his book. 1912 wilson. Roosevelt, taft and debs the election that changed the country. Professor chace describes the personalities and relationships between Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard taft and eugene debs. Welcome to viewers on cspans book tv. Today were here to discuss james chaces new book, 1912 wilson. Roosevelt, taft and debs the election that changed the country. It has just been published by simon and schuster. Woodrow Wilson Center is the official memorial to our 28th president. Created in 1968 by an act of congress within the smithsonian institution. Because Woodrow Wilson headed Princeton University before becoming president the center memorializes his legacy as a bridge between the worlds of academia and public policy. It fulfills this miss
August and september he is making his own train reservations riding in a common car grabbing a sandwich at the depot someplace in helping with the guide to the end of the line somebody would pick him up with a hotel reservation. Sometimes he has a private car as he goes through kentucky and tennessee he has had a private rail car provided but sometimes is that theyre ahead of the campaign who writes his compatriot to senator james jones to say i saw this of hellenized reticulate train to baltimore we waited until 2 00 in the morning to switch we got him on in there were a handful of people there. We if he has a private car he could fall asleep the train picks him up he could wake up and wash his face so then he is traveling. So mckinley is pressed to go on the road once panics debt says it is unstoppable he starts to believe he has a race on his hands and mckinley says if i go on and the road we will have to mimic him. I know what it is like. And finally he says i have to think before
You come across this nondescript town. Court house. Scare square. It is the center of this summers most famous book, go set a watchman. It is the home of harper lee. Tell us what you find there. Guest you find a little landlocked town in the back town of alabama. It hasnt changed much from to kill a mockingbird. Watch out for the arm difficuad. There was a time when they were going to tear down the court house because they built a 1960 one and thought they didnt need the old one. Now it is restored and like a church. It is an shine to American Literary culture. That is probably the best thing about that town. There is still no museum. There is still no reconstructed home of capote or where his home was. It is just host it is just a square. There is a plaque out front, then a yard, and it is next to the house where the walkin dairy is. Guest right. And the rock stone walls separating the properties that truman turned cart wholes on is still there. It is perfectly preserved and it it is
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