Local cable or satellite provider. Like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. Houseive coverage of the on cspan and the senate on 3 wean2, on cspan complement that coverage with relevant programming. Is theweekend, cspan3 home of American History tv with six unique series american artifacts. History bookshelves, with the bestknown American History writers, lectures in history, with top College Professors delving into americas past, and our new series ,reel america. Created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. Like us on facebook. Follow us on twitter. Each week American History tv sits in on a lecture with one of the nations College Professors. You can watch the classes every saturday evening at 8 00 p. M. And midnight eastern. Next, Indiana University Professor John bodnar talks about the idea of sexual freedom in the 1950s and the beginning of dissent against cold warera moral values. Professor bodnar talked about how america in the 1950s
Dimension of fighting communism and its domestic dimension of promoting certain outlooks and certain values that were seen as indispensable in americas fight against communism in the world. So, as we discussed already, the cold war not only had a military component, but it had a moral component, a dimension where if you were to be seen in American Society as an ardent cold warrior committed to the fight against communism, then you not only had to be a patriot, willing to do battle figuratively and theoretically against communism in the world, but you had to live by certain standards to prove your american loyalty and american patriotism. Interestingly, in the late 1940s and early 1950s, just when this alliance was getting off the ground, this alliance between the political fight in the world and the need for moral rearmament domestically in our country, just as that was emerging, we saw the beginning s of a fracture, a division, or even some sentiments of dissent within American Cultur
Bellwethers in the future . Howard fineman, and the National Politics correspondent with the washington most. First, rand paul is out there explaining the hell out of his moment in the sun on the issue of government surveillance. Yesterday he single handedly brought the Republican Senate to a halt. Forcing the exploration of key elements of the patriot act. Here is paul making his stand. The people who argue that the world will he believed and well be overrun by jihadists tonight are trying to use fear. They want to take a little bit of your liberty but they get it by making you afraid. They want you to fear and give up your liberty. People here in town think im making a huge mistake. Some of them, i think, secretly want there to be an attack on the United States so they can blame it on me. Theyll be the first to point fingers and say, oh, yeah. It is all your fault. We never should have given up on this great program. The republican freakout was then palpable. John mccain who has a lo
Lynn Conway, who died Sunday at 85, was a leader in the development of personal computers and microprocessor technology, and a symbol for generations of transgender individuals.