Time. She started her own business as a wall street banker, she advocated for free love, which means sex outside of marriage. Eastern,at 6 30 p. M. An author discusses her book democracy and truth a short history. No one one person, institution, no one sector, king, priest, National Research body, one cast would get to call the shots. Explore our nations passed on American History tv. All weekend, every weekend on cspan3. The cspan cities tour is on the road exploring the american story. With support from our cable partners, this weekend we traveled to rapid city, south dakota, featuring lifesize statues of each of our nations past president s. For the next hour, we will experience the history of this city of 75,000. For a moment, we will take you into the Black Hills National Forest with a trip to Mount Rushmore National Memorial. And in about 20 minutes, it is on to bear butte, one of the most Sacred Places in the world for native americans. Later, we will visit the Journey Museum to
Other stops on our tour at www. Cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. Next come historians discuss u. S. Foreignpolicy on human rights during the latter half of the cold war. Chileters focus on iran, and cuba. They also examined the american stance on womens rights, torture and oppression in the developing world from the 1960s on. This session was hosted by the American Historical Association at their annual meeting. Its about an hour and a half. Thank you for coming to this session on human rights in the late cold war era. My name is amanda moniz. On the curator of philanthropy at the Smithsonian National museum of American History. Until recently, i was associate director of the National History center of the American Historical Association, which sponsored this afternoons panel. Amanda perry is the new assistant director. We are grateful to sarah snyder for organizing this panel. Panelistsroduce our all together and then we will hear their papers, wh
To show us what daily life is like there. These are the last pictures cameraman Bassel Shehade ever shot. His camera was still running as he tried to cross a street in homs in a hail of bullets. Shehade never made it to the other side. Abounaddara a syrian film collective has turned the footage into a harrowing document of life in syria, dedicated to shehades murderers. [gunshots] the soldiers who kill us are our brothers. The frontlines in syria are extremely complicated. Its not simply a case of good or evil. Some soldiers fight for the revolution, others are afraid. Some of those fighting for the regime have no other choice. Others are opportunists. Theres a bit of everything. We want to show through our films that you can also have a dialogue with the enemy. S isfor the last five years, abounaddara has uploaded a short film onto their website every friday. Thats over 400 films so far of the syria we never see. The films document the absurdity of everyday life in wartime, the dramas
To show us what daily life is like there. These are the last pictures cameraman Bassel Shehade ever shot. His camera was still running as he tried to cross a street in homs in a hail of bullets. Shehade never made it to the other side. Abounaddara a syrian film collective has turned the footage into a harrowing document of life in syria, dedicated to shehades murderers. [gunshots] the soldiers who kill us are our brothers. The frontlines in syria are extremely complicated. Its not simply a case of good or evil. Some soldiers fight for the revolution, others are afraid. Some of those fighting for the regime have no other choice. Others are opportunists. Theres a bit of everything. We want to show through our films that you can also have a dialogue with the enemy. S isfor the last five years, abounaddara has uploaded a short film onto their website every friday. Thats over 400 films so far of the syria we never see. The films document the absurdity of everyday life in wartime, the dramas
We appreciate their support as well, and now i wanted to introduce todays Panel Moderator ralph u banks im honored to introduce my friend ralph of mississippi native a journal in mississippi dark path which book critic name as one of the best of 2003. Ralph the graduate of the university of mississippi and university of michigan a recipient of a guggenheim fellowship hes been a fellow at the if new america foundation. Ralph lives in washington, d. C. With wife and three children and former editor of the virginia quarterly review at the university of virginia and scholar in southern studies here in jackson so welcome ralph. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you im really honored to be moderating this panel. We have a really great lineup, and i just want to start off by introducing each of the panelist. Our first panelist to my left is derby and book wednesdays in mississippi proper ladies working for radical change and to her right is author born of conviction white med dis and mississippi cl