Watch American History tv, tonight and over the weekend, on cspan3. All right. Since we have a very ontime sort of calming of the room, i am going to go ahead and kick us off. Thank you, so much, for coming to the violence in american politics panel. As i think we will see it as an incredibly timely panel. And a really good time to be putting these topics into the context of a broader American History. So im going to start off by introducing our panel. And then everyones going to give their opening statement. And then, we will start the conversation. So who is sitting right next to me is t. Cole jones. Assistant professor at purdue university. He is author of captives of liberty prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Reserve lugz, which will be released this fall by the university of pennsylvania press. In addition to his book, hes published articles in the journal of the early republic, the journal of military history and the new england quarterly. He is curren
Censorship of conservatives what will the future hold our panel weighs in and a former c. B. S. News president says the media is tilted to the left has been for a long time and its too late to fix it lionel will be here with his take im Steve Malzberg lets see the press. Oh yeah. The list. By. You know folks it doesnt take a genius to understand were living through Turbulent Times during last weeks heat the press we talked extensively about the horrible death suffered by george floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police department that death soon led to the protests and riots that weve seen taking place daily across the country and if you think the media has been able to cover whats going on without their usual liberal biased guess again. Watch them watch them lie to you what after the other as you watch what youre watching and you see what youre seeing and theyre telling you no youre not seeing that i want to be clear in how i. Actually have a problem just trying to get in on it is
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Alexandria, virginia. To start off the afternoon, please welcome philip green wall. Philip is the cofounder of emerging revolutionary war and the fulltime contributor to emerging civil war. He is the author or coauthor of two volumes in the American Revolutionary war series, and three volumes in the emerging civil war series. One of his books as downstairs, as well. Phil graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in history from wheel and Jesuit University and has a graduate degree in American History from george mason university. He is currently a supervisor and park ranger with the National Park service in florida. You can ask him about the fun things he may have seen recently there. With, that let us learn a bit about why someone would want to burn down boston. laughs applause i will move the microphone up. I am a park ranger in the everglades. Dont bring any snakes. I know that was a big concern. Did you but todays top is centered on something farther north. Being a Baltimore Orioles