The university of notre dame about how al smith and john kennedy dealt with the issue in their president ial campaigns. John mcgreevy from the university of notre dame, your book which came out a few years ago, whats the premise behind it . What did you learn . I wanted to look at how american ideas of freedom intersected with the catholic global tradition and what i learned is there were moments of conflict and moments of overlap. In the 19th century there was conflict over slavery. But lots of overlap in efforts to reform the economy. There was overlap in the 50s on ideas about americanization and mention over issues around sexuality, divorce, a lot of the kind of cultural issues of the last 30 years. More than 90 years ago, al smith ran for president. First catholic on the ticket. Why was that significant and who was al smith . Al smith was an immigrant kid from new york city. Irish and german. Never got beyond the eighth grade. By the 1920s, catholics are a significant percentage o
Prizewinning biographer jon meacham look at American History through song. [inaudible conversations] please welcome tim mcgraw and jon meacham. [applause] hey, guys, how are ya . [applause] hi, how are you . Good morning. Im the old guy up here [laughter] so history, as you all know, is about words. Thats why youre here. The stately rhythms of the declaration of independence, the cadences of the constitution, but its also about sounds. Its about the muffled drum at lexington and concord and the sound of the surf at omaha beach, the sound of a minister at the march on washington calling on us to live up to the full mean being of our creed. And its also about music. And music is one of the most universe aral expressions. You can listen to a song with which you might disagree more congenially than you could ever listen to a speech about something with which you disagree. Absolutely. You know, as sure as the patriots were carrying their swords and their guns, they were carrying their pens,
Historian mary beth norton. She is the author of five books and coeditor of several others in your textbooks in a survey of u. S. History and been published in ten additions and sold more than 500,000 copies. Norton is a price finalist and. She is married professor of American History at cornell university. Her new book, 1774, year of revolution, available for purchase following the program. So now, please join me in welcoming mary beth norton. [applause]. Mary is really nice to be here. I want to make sure that the microphone is on. It does not seem to be. Hope there is pretty great. I want to show you the cover of the book because that little bottle on it, is famous here in colonial historian. I dont know if anybody recognizes this but it is in the collection of the massachusetts historical tidy. It claims on the label which is impossible read, that it contains t picked up from bostons harbor. The day after the tea party. So there is a quite wellknown object in the colonial america.
Opposes sending 1000 Canyon Police to haiti as part of the u. N. Peacekeeping force. Then federal prosecutors in u. S. Court have rested their case against former honduran president juan Orlando Hernandez, who faces accusations of turning the country into a narcostate. We will get the latest. And well speak with the producer of the oscarnominated holocaust film zone of interest who spoke about the israeli siege of gaza in his bafta award speech last month. Those rules are not new, before, during, since the holocaust, and it seems stark right now that we should care about innocent people being killed in gaza or yemen in the same way we think about innocent people being killed in mariupol or israel. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Supreme Court Unanimously ruled states do not monday have the authority to remove donald trump from the ballot under the insurrection clause of the 14th amendmen
Opposes sending 1000 Canyon Police to haiti as part of the u. N. Peacekeeping force. Then federal prosecutors in u. S. Court have rested their case against former honduran president juan Orlando Hernandez, who faces accusations of turning the country into a narcostate. We will get the latest. And well speak with the producer of the oscarnominated holocaust film zone of interest who spoke about the israeli siege of gaza in his bafta award speech last month. Those rules are not new, before, during, since the holocaust, and it seems stark right now that we should care about innocent people being killed in gaza or yemen in the same way we think about innocent people being killed in mariupol or israel. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The u. S. Supreme Court Unanimously ruled states do not monday have the authority to remove donald trump from the ballot under the insurrection clause of the 14th amendmen