Because it showed that even though texas is a southern state, it had compassion for the africanamericans struggle of slavery. The cspan cities tour visits literary and Historic Sites across the nation. To hear from local historians, authors and civic leaders, every other weekend on cspan 2s book t. V. And cspan 3s American History t. V. This month, with congress on its summer recess, the city tours is on cspan each day at 6 p. M. Eastern. Hey. Look at me. Hurry come on come on wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it. Welcome to galveston on book t. V. Located on an island off the gulf coast of texas, it was the main port for the texas navy during the Texas Revolution and served as the provisional capital of the republic of texas. Today its visited by over six million tourists. With the help of our cable partners, well learn about the history of this coastal city from local authors. We begin with casey greene on the 1900 storm that decimated galveston. [music] the 1900 storm struck galves
Congress Jefferson Building including the designers, construction and declaration. The u. S. Capital Historical Society hosted this event as part of their annual summer lecture series. It is about one hour. Quite a few more people expect you can see on the cover that we have this personal information on the lower right side. If you do not have a copy and would like one or if you would like another just send me a email. I will send you a copy. Ultimately you can get a copy whether you have wanted they are not. This is a mixed audience, i have no idea of your expertise. My expertise is this i am a docent at the library. I have become interested in the history of building the building. Interested in it because of the individuals involved. Big buildings need big egos. That is what we have here. There is no question about it. The fascinating psychological story, the historical story. I am going to go into these primary elements. I amu do not know this sorry i am repetitious but that is the
Former assistant counsel to the naacp Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the author of six books. How did professor lani guinier come how did he become known . Guest how long do you have . 1993 and by june of 1993 i was no longer nominated. Its an intense be but short period of time intense but short period of time so your question, how long was i being considered, you could say two months, but then before they mom nailed me nominated me, there was also some discussion of it, im sure. So depends on your math. Host who first used that, that term, quota queen . You for excuse that term . Guest i dont know who first used the term. It was First Published in the wall street journal but i cant tell you who came up with the term. I think theyve adjust have been somebody early on. Host was it a fair term . Guest no. I wasnt the queen. I guess somebody liked the fact there two qs. I didnt relate to the concept. Host where did they give that term . From your lot riding . In leading quota que
The storm began at noon and raised in dramatic intensity and finally when it tapered off that evening. This hurricane was and still is the deadliest natural event in the history of the United States. The destruction pull 28 to 30 million certainly the destructive hurricane. Many buildings did survive with major damage but the death toll is why we remember this event more than anything. It can happen again. Saturday, september 1900, people went to the beach, the rising tides, the rising wind certainly drew them. They watched in amazement as both of these physical factors battered beach front structures. At that time we had been bad house is out of the gulf of mexico and also had peers and even had net huge pavilion called olympia by the see. As the storm increased in intensity, these structures were turned into matchsticks by the hurricane. The problem is people didnt realize this storm would increase so rapidly so they took refuge in their homes. Especially south of broadway they fough
The issue is. People are not required to vote a particular because there are only two parties. Its just much its much more engaging as a result i think if we dislike that in the trendy we would have higher levels of participation. Thats another thing that we dont admit that we really should, that is we have at the most about 60 , 65 of the population voting. We go to other countries and they have 80 . You go to australia and you are required to vote. If you dont vote you are punished. In the United States somehow we want to make it difficult for some people to vote or its not necessary, its not necessarily we want to make difficult. Its that we are coachable and having made it difficult for people who dont have access to a car truck or ben, people who dont have a lot of money in order to take time off from work to engage in a political activity or to even vote. And some of we blame the people as opposed to our electoral system and say, well the fact that, thinking of a case that i liti