Working knconditions. Welcome back, everybody. As you know, weve been in the guilded age for some time now. And weve already scene the Technological Innovations that made some of this economic expansion possible. We saw both the economic transformations and the effects of those changes in the economy as far as lifestyles, both of the very rich, these opulent robert barren lifestyles on the one hand on on the other hand, of the very poor. Whether it was the People Living in the shacks of the new england mill towns or whether it was when we explored the guild l age city, the increasing problems of housing and of sanitation that came with the cities going along with immigration. And then last time we saw in particular, there was some frustration with this guilded age regime as we talked about the farmers in this period. That really could have been called discontent in the guilded age part one, but today, we turn our attention mostly back toward industry and in some way, back toward the ci
Africa, captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 week nights this month were featuring American History tv programs as a preview of whats available every weekend on cspan 3. Tonight, university of maryland professor Christopher Bonner teaches a class about the concept of power in antebellum slave societies. He explores the different ways owners and enslaved people exerted or expressed their will and looks at how these dynamics played out on plantations and how the invention of the cotton gin and expansion of slavery and the cotton industry affected the relationship between owners and enslaved watch tonight beginning at 8 00 eastern and enjoy American History tv this week and every weekend on cspan 3. Now, on American History tv, a lecture from the university of pittsburgh about the origins of the atlantic slave trade, how slave traders captured slaves on africas west coast and details about the trip across the atlantic ocean. Captions Copyright National cable satellite co
Actually a participating from 1903 that is depicting one such treaty conference that wept on on a frontier of the valley. You did a reading today that featured a fellow named William Johnson not a lot of contemporary students of history know much about. He was an irish immigrant who came to america, settled on the moha mohawk frontier in up state new york and became very friendly with mohawk indians who were his neighbors and ultimately gained a great deal of influence among them and ultimately was appointed by the British Crown to serve as its agent to the iroquois nations. Think about the reading you did for today, and this has kind of provided me with a mental image of that. It was at johnson hall which was this georgian mansion he built on the mohawk frontier that still stands today. If youre in up state new york traveling between albany and syracuse, new york, you can visit this site which tells a really interesting story about how europeans and nativeamericans came together on th
Been brewing for 12, 13 years has started. So today were going to talk whats called [ speaking Foreign Language ] anybody take french . This is april 1775, right after lexington and concord, through the declaration of independence. This is sometimes called the Popular Uprising phase. And this is the year of the revolution that probably more people supported the war than any other one. Why do you suppose theres so much support for the war this year . Any ideas . They havent really started fighting yet. They havent started fighting yet. They dont know what war is going to mean. Anybody else, any ideas . Some of it, this is like fury. And i have some images to show you. Theres a historian named charles roister and he coined this phrase, rage militaire. And it says, the rage militaire has taken hold on the entire continent. The americans are fighting mad. Its a wild passion. What is rage . Go ahead. Anger. Intense anger. The americans are really furious. All this stuff has been building up
Cspan. Org coronavirus. Next british Prime Minister horace johnsons address to the nation on his governments response to the pandemic. Restrictions include stop shock closings and stopping all social events. Prime minister johnson good evening, the coronavirus is the biggest threat this country has faced for decades, and this country is not alone. All of the world we are saying devastating impacts of this invisible killer. Onight i want to update you the steps we are taking to fight the disease and what you can do to help. I want to begin reminding you why the u. K. Has been taking the approach we have. National effort to halt the growth of the virus, there will come a moment were no service in the world could cope. There will not be enough ventilators, intensive care beds, doctors or nurses. As we have seen in other countries that have fantastic health care systems, that is the moment of real danger. Simply, if too many people become seriously unwell at one time, the nhs will be unabl