Nominated twice for the pulitzer prize. The author of i think one of the great books about the civil war, america which was in the library a few years ago talking about it and talking about the importance of the evangelical religion in american politics leading up to the civil war and in some senses, the decline of evangelical religion, certainly the righteousness of evangelical religion after the civil war in the beginning of postreconstruction era and jim crow. It is i think a great book that refrains from what we have thought about the civil war and what we thought about race and religion in america. In a sense, you get his generation whose new book, when government was good is the subtitle. It may seem like a distant path for some of us today. We phrased also the conversation about the place of government in American History and particularly executiveleadership. Its really a book about truman and eisenhower and johnson who was the coda about those who came after. Here in kansas cit
Was a of the people 14yearold boy. [indiscernible] thehe guy who appeals to confederate officer to spare the boy, that was the guy who got unlucky numbers. Yearold boy go. [applause] you are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. Illinoisversity of professor Kevin Schultz talks about the politics of 1960s and what freedom meant to different groups. Including students, women, africanamericans, and latinos. He describes how the goals of these groups are often at odds with the federal government. Minutes. Es about 15 50 ultz obviously today were going to talk about the 1960s. Stephen stills wrote it. Crosby stills nash and young. It talks about he wrote the song after a protest. They put a law on how long people could be outside of bars in los angeles. All of the young people protested. I dont want to go to bed at 10 00. I want to party at the whiskey a go go. Right . The cops came, they beat some heads. There was
All right. Lets get started. Obviously today were going to talk act the 1960s. Do you guys know about that song with by the way . Buffalo springfield for what its worth . Steve stills wrote it when he was with buffalo springfield. He wrote the song after a protest. They put a law on how long people could be outside of bars in los angeles. And all of the young people protested, i dont want to go to bed at 10 00. I want to party at the whiskey agogo, right . The cops came, they beat some heads and there was a protest. Stephen stills writes this song all about the contentious nature of the 1960s, right . And the thing about that song, its a ski protest song, you guys know it all and it was written 50 years ago. The thing about that song is its not so much a protest song im right and youre wrong. But it is about look at what is happening to our society, right . Field day for the heat. Right . A thousand people on the street. All of them carrying signs mostly saying hooray for our side, my
Anniversary Conference Held in washington dc and is about 90 minutes. Mary ok, we are going to start. My name is Mary Jean Collins and i will be the moderator of the workshop today. [applause] mary nothing but stars on the panel here. [laughter] honored tol very even be there today into the remembering the brave women and men that started the National Organization for women. It was june of 1966 that they first got together. Since nobody, we do not have anyone living that was at the first meeting, at the washington hilton. No, second meeting. Come on. Here is some of the history here. There was a very active womens bureau and the department of labor. 1966, the democrats were in charge, president kennedy had been elected. The women from labor and uaw and other unions are very active in the department of labor and the womens bureau was led by feminists and they persuaded the president to call a meeting of commissions on the status of women. There were many states, i do not know if all sta
Christian F. Nunes, President of the National Organization for Women, speaks on intersectional feminism and compassionate leadership in the face of political regression.