Im next on American History tv. Author Donald Miller interviews Jessica Shattuck about her novel, the women in the castle. She explains how her familys connection to nazi germany influenced her work, and how her research informed her understanding of german citizens during world war ii. This when our top was part of a three Day Conference hosted by the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans. So, welcome back. This next session is a unique one for our conference. For those of you who come here regularly, you are used to seeing the best and brightest minds in the field of world war ii history. This normally means the best selling authors of history books, leading professors and documentarians. But when we were planning this years program, we decided to mix it up by inviting a novelist, and only the second one that weve hosted in the conferences for the entire time that weve been doing these. Don miller, authors of masters at the air is also one of our longest standing advisers and c
At can send us a text 202 7488003. If you do please include your name and where you are from, otherwise catch up on social cspanwj and on facebook. Happy thanksgiving to you and your family. You can start calling in now. One statistic down how americans are spending their thanksgiving. Only 27 plan to have the traditional thanksgiving meal with people outside of their household. The New York Times with a map trying to break down that data from a survey of some 150,000 americans. That map showing the share of people eating thanksgiving dinner with people outside their homes the darker the color shading. As the map illustrates there is a substantial regional variation with some people much more likely together with others. 14 ofs of vermont, only households will be celebrating with people outside their household. In parts of missouri, more than half of the residents plan to. We ask you this morning about thanksgiving 2020. What you celebrating, what are you thankful for, some responses a
Hello hello welcome radack to the night this is a comedy show where americans in america covering American News are called foreign agents so no. I guess. One of the only. To be i didnt see that coming. Ok to be honest because of the pandemic scheduling we had to film this episode before the tuesday election so im coming from the past and i apologize for that its its its pretty weird here in the past were so naive and gullible like newborn baby. But no matter what happened in the election dont tell me dont tell me i want to i want to i want to i want to be surprised no matter what happened the loser no doubt the American People and really the people the rest of the world and the animal and the plant probably the bacteria so i figured we could all use some good news thats why im devoting this entire episode to the good is still r. N. A. We need it i need it you need it and were starting with the not one not one but 3 us backed coups that have been destroyed over the past a year or cia an
You sit across from your grandmother, you are in complete silence, it is a sacred space. Listen andtes you ask questions. It is just two microphones and you look each other in the eyes. As you know i microphone gives you the license to ask questions you do not normally get to ask. From the beginning of storycorps people thought if i had 40 bits left to live, what i say to this person . At the end of the 40 minutes you get a copy and another stays with us and goes to the American Folklife Center in the library of congress. Your great, great, Great Grandkids can know your grandmother through her voice and story. Because of the nature of what happens in these booths, it started in Grand Central then expanded across the country, we are collecting the wisdom of humanity. We have about 650,000 participate so far. It is the largest collection of human voices so far. We are a Public Service and nonprofit. We are here to serve people. One of the things we are encouraging a thanksgiving, and if
A long time ago france stopped in 1075 because the process is rife with fraud and i have to tell you i think its incumbent upon the trunk campaign to say al gore took 37. 00 days to litigate florida were going to go litigate and were going to demand recounts some were going to be automatic obviously in georgia but in wisconsin in michigan in pennsylvania in nevada in arizona we want to get to where we have free and Fair Elections where every legal vote is counted in a trustworthy and transparent way the American People deserve it i was wishing and hoping that last night trump was going to look into the camera and say im demanding a free and Fair Election that the American People can trust not for myself but for you because you deserve it and i think the scary thing in all of this is at the end of the day no matter who ultimately wins half of the population of america is going to think the election has been stolen that is a very dangerous place for us to be as a country. What else does