the c-span cities tour is exploring american stories as we take book tv and american history tv on the road. we travel to san antonio, texas. coming up in the next hour we will experience the history of this south, texas city. starting with a visit to the san antonio mission s national historical park. following that in about 20 minutes we will hear about the role the city played in early military aviation. and in about 40 minutes visit one of the city s most recognizable features and biggest attractions, the historic river walk. later a trip to the spanish governor s palace, one of the oldest buildings in the city dating back to the founding. we begin our special feature at mission san jose, one of four remaining colonial spanish missions in san antonio. welcome to our spanish governor s palace. what you re looking at is actually the last visual remnants of the presidio, the original facility was built in the 1720s and it was really the residence for the captain. what we
many years, jim downs, and we put together a series. we had a panel called history and headlines, we got historians to talk about how we wanted to make sure that we were plugged into these larger issues. we put out a book a year on a topic that s a burning issue, certainly the confederate statues and memorialization when we put it together. a roundtable of scholars in 2017, published in 2019, wanted to really address something that would be contemporary and fresh. we discuss silent sam, the statue on the university of north carolina. the protest against it wanted to pull it down. the board of overseers taking a position against removing it and more protests to follow and then eventually the sale of it is a really interesting issue. money being donated for the her mobile. this end of happened at vanderbilt as well. you had a confederate memorial hall. iony paid for the erect of the hall. when it was determined by the university to move it really the century later he paid y
it took a while. but we have a good answer to sickness in this part of new york. it is part of a new idea that is going on in other states. you are entering a new world of health care. it draws upon the same science and uses the same instruments and equipment health services traditionally do. but in its philosophy and practice, it is different and startling and sing can t ways. ways insignificant in startling and sing it ways. in new york s montefiore s way, this concept has affected the professional and the patient. kai ardo never had a doctor before, at least one new his name and medical history. your ? your legs? i was hurting so bad. i turned around and came back to her three times. getting on in years and it never entered her mind that she would be getting so much intense and in a place devoted to medical care. if the place does not kill me, it is so quiet. misses hitchcock complains about a lot of things but she never thought complaining about her medic
with dred scott, d. john sandford and you all read chief justice roger tawny s opinion in dred scott s case. and you have read that opinion, and it s notorious in american history, right? for the blatant racism in it, for the sanction that tawny gives to the concept of human property under the constitution, and for denying black citizenship, not only denying black citizenship, but denying even blacks as free, as persons under the constitution. and so, dred scott was one type of freedom suit, right? it was based on his physical presence in a free state, illinois, and his physical presence in wisconsin, a free territory. and it s often presented in american history textbooks as if it were the only freedom suit in american history. to go to the supreme court. the only, almost uniformly, presented as dred scott, one man bringing a freedom suit. but when we look into it a little more closely, there were thousands of freedom suits in american courts. all of them challenging the not
peep people s feelings about the confederate war. i think students in the classroom and general readers want to know how people feel about these issues. so i got interested with a colleague i worked with for many years, jim downs, and we put together a series. we had a panel called history in the headlines, and we got historians to talk about how we wanted to make sure we were plugged in to these larger issues. we put out a topic that is a burning issue. certainly the confederate statues and memorialization, when we put it together a roundtable of scholars in 2017, published in 2019. we wanted to really address something that could be contemporary and fresh. we discussed silent sam, the statue on the university of north carolina, the protests against it, wanting to pull it down. the board of overseers taking a stand against removing it. more protests to follow and then eventually the sale of it is a really interesting issue, money being donated for the removal. this, i know,