School here in the audience. I hope you enjoy that and continue to participate in the event. We have an exciting panel today. Lets get started with some questions. Many of the questions were prepared in advance. Lets start with questions about news in the current year. Its only been a year since the president ial election. It is hard to remember when fake facebook wasnt part of fake news. no matter how bad it was for their candidate or how bad it was it allowed them to assume it was coming from a biased point of view and therefore they ignored it it has not been typical of american campaigns have a slightly different view. We focus on the elections and it figures a letter that moore versus the cost and my background in psychology in a lot of the research that incentives of how people believe what they want to believe and really smart people have access to all the news they should know Better Believe what they want to believe. People will believe what they want to believe. Certainly soc
Becometing students to more politically engaged. An event hosted by the center for american progress, and. Eneration citizen good morning, everyone. I am that second of vice atsident of external affairs the center of american progress. On behalf of our great partners at generation citizen, i want to thank everyone of you for joining us for this important conversation. When we first planned this event a few weeks ago, we wanted to talk about the state of Civic Engagement among young people in our country. Given the recent outcry and horrific acts at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in heartland and those that survived this choosing, and that our keynote speaker has deep ties to florida, i think todays discussion takes on a whole different meaning. Now perhaps more than ever, our government and its leaders must prove they are not only listening to our nations young people, but they are doing everything in their power to ensure all students feel protected and valued in the eyes of ou
State capital of santa fe. Former washington, senator bob graham to talk about Civics Education and engagement. Educational progress. Perhaps more importantly america s Civic Engagement is at an alltime low. Public trust in government remains near historic lows, particularly with our nations young people. Less than half of millennials are voting and only 18 of the public trusts leaders in washington to do the right thing. This creates a vicious cycle Many Americans are dissatisfied with their government, yet, still fail to vote because they believe their voices will not be heard. The good news, is that across the country we can find inspiring activists, policymakers, educators, and others who are turning apathy into action. We are honored to welcome 4 outstanding panelist this morning who are committed to motivating and engaging americas students and we look forward to hearing their insights. First, i have a great privilege of introducing our keynote speaker for today. Senator bob grah
As i mentioned earlier, we will have autographing right on the other side of the elevator, and first thing to that area, thank you very much. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] you have been listening to pamela paul, editor of the New York Times book review talking about terry mcmillan, dave barry, jay mcirnerny and maria semple. Coming up in an hour from miami, you hear from actors and author Jane Alexander about her book wild things and wild places, but in the meantime we are pleased to be joined at the Miami Book Fair by former Florida Governor and senator bob graham, his newest book is called america, the Owners Manual. You write in your book you thought donald trump was a fad that would ultimately pass. Obviously that part of the book needs to be revisited. The rest of the book holds up pretty well. In a sense the fact that he is not a fad makes the fundamental point of the book which is that there are a lot of americans who are extremely
Carolina. To learn more about the cities on our 2015 to her, visited cspan. Org cities to her. We continue now with our look at the history of greensboro. This is American History tv on cspan3. Today we are the greensboro historical museum. This is exhibit called the murphy confederate long arms collection. This collection was loaned to the museum, and then bequeath to the museum on dr. Murphys death in 2003. John and Isabel Murphy were a couple married, and john was a particular collector of confederate long arms. He was born in washington, d. C. , and attended school in virginia, said he was a southerner. He enrolled in the navy and served as a doctor for 20 years before retiring. He assembled an outstanding collection, one of its kind of confederate long arms. By that, i mean rifles muskets shotguns, and carbines made in the south for confederate soldiers. His interest in the civil war talking to his maternal grandfather and some great uncles, and the fact that his maternal grandfat