American history tv is looking at the revolutionary war in new jersey. Coming up, we retrace the steps of soldiers who fought in the battle of trenton. Mr. Siegel the battle of trenton is exceptionally of 1776ant in the time because the American Revolution was on the edge of being extinguished. Washingtons army had reached its lowest point, he was in danger of losing a lot of his troops and his enlistments. He had just lost several significant battles in manhattan and in the new york area. And had retreated across new jersey, hoping to increase the numbers of his army while passing through new jersey and the opposite happened. He lost troops. The analogy i like to use is pointhe rebellion at that was like a candle that was about to be blown out. Washington would retreat across the Delaware River and set up his forces in pennsylvania in the new town area, and its there that he developed a plan to use his army before they all went home, and to launch an attack against the german garrison
Washingtons army had reached its lowest point, he was in danger of losing a lot of his troops and his enlistments. He had just lost several significant battles in manhattan and in the new york area. And had retreated across new jersey, hoping to increase the numbers of his army while passing through new jersey and the opposite happened. He lost troops. The analogy i like to use is that the rebellion at that point was like a candle that was about to be blown out. Washington would retreat across the Delaware River and set up his forces in pennsylvania in the new town area, and its there that he developed a plan to use his army before they all went home, and to launch an attack against the german garrison there was holding trenton. Trenton was a very important crossroads city at the time, a town of about 1000 people on the major route between philadelphia and new york city. Trenton have a lot of significance sitting on the Delaware River about 50 miles north of philadelphia. The british a
There are moments in American History that divide our story into a clear before and after. From lexington and concorde to pearl harbor, those moments are most often defined by conflict. But in 1967, it was defined by a lack of sexual inhibition a steady supply of hallucinogenic drugs and a new thing called acid rock. That june a tidal wave of humanity packed san francisos haightashbury district for what came to be known as the summer of love. It was the watershed moment for a movement that had been slowly building fueled by main stream press attention at events like the human bein at Golden Gate Park and timed perfectly to the end of the University School year. The nation was at a turning point. Events in places watts, dallas and vietnam were unfolding. The baby boom was over. And it seemed like everyone had long hair. As spring semesters came to a close around the nation, young people couldnt wait to follow tim learys advice to turn on, tune in, and drop out. They made their way to Sa
Coast. By 11 00 its well into new jersey. By midnight or so it is off shore. Right now we have temperatures that are shy of the 90degree mark. We are not getting into the heat over the next several days. For this evening it is dry 6 00 in philly. Stormy at 10 00. Showers even into tomorrow morning still going to be a threat of showers tomorrow, not the strong storms that we are getting this afternoon. The early part of the evening and the rush hour is okay as we get towards 6 00 to 9 00 it will really get active around here. And our nbc 10 app will send you Severe Weather alerts before the storm hits your neighborhood. Download it for free so you dont get caught in that rain. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with a contentious day as any minute a judge will decide punishment for a woman who kidnapped an infant. Keith jones has details from inside that courtroom. Lawyers for chira say she blacked out. The prosecution is painting a much different picture. They contend that she troled
Frederickatlas douglass. Is my pleasure to welcome our guest today. Our actor, moderator and the state which University Professor from the university of maryland. Professor levine has been an influential force in american and African American literature for over 30 years and recently has contributed important work to the burgeoning field of hemispheric and transnational American Literary studies. He is the author of the 2016 book the lives of Frederick Douglass, and after todays production will be signing copies in the archive store. Please welcome Professor Robert levine. [applause] thank you forne the introduction. Thank you to tom for organizing this. It is an honor to be here. My guess is that you would rather hear an actor over an academic, so i will be relatively brief with the introduction. About five minutes. As a lot of you know, Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in 1818, in the Eastern Shore of maryland. For the first 20 years of his life, he was a slave, moving back a