Grea fort bragg and oth installations and call North Carolina home, eve for a thanks to our colleague for joining us today. Madam president , thanksgiving dinner has become the single most sell grated celebrated meal of theay. With tens ofmericans gathering with family and friends to give thanks for their bleings and of course for one another. Folks, i know that this yr its a lot different. While we sti have so much to be thankful for, the covid1 paemic means folks will be traveling less and might not be celebrating in larger groups. And as a result, many will be separated from their loved ones on this very special day. Bu folks, this is a very familiar feeling for anyon who has ever served in our Nations Armed forces. Protecting our nation. Rom at any given moment, thousands of men and women,oms and dads, brothers and sisters, are stationed arnd the world standing vigilant in the defense of freedom. Those wearing the uniform arent the only ones making a sacrifice either back home ther
Challenged after a tax law eliminated the penalty for not having healthcare insurance. Listen to the oral arguments live at 10 am eastern on cspan, live a report or on the cspan radio app. Hello and welcome to the atlantic History Centers virtual talk series, im sylvia prescott. Tonight i am talking about his new book on were the republic, the dispossession of native americans in indian territory. Purchase the book directly from a cappella books , theres a link in the chat and theres also a link provided on the atlantic institute. As claudia and i are talking about please use the q and a feature atthe bottom of your screen. And i will take as many as time allows. He is professor of american history, codirector of the virtual history and associate director of the institute of native american studies. He is the author of three previous books on american history, west of the revolution, black white and indian and a new order. Claudio saunt, thank you for joining us and welcome. Thank you
Curator sarah levit shows us what architecture can reveal about how the mentally ill were cared for over time. We decided to do this exhibition for many reasons, one of which, i think its a real important moment to be talking about the role of the federal government in providing Public Health and providing healthcare for the mentally ill and what that role has been over the time. I think it is an interesting time to talk about that. Also, right now, at st. Elizabeths in d. C. , its really a time where theyre looking to develop the land. Its now split into two halves, the federal government owns half of it and it will become the department of Homeland Security, which is something thats happening right now and also development is really starting on the east campus, which is owned by the city of washington, d. C. Its a really interesting time to Start Talking about that since theyre really moving forward and starting that development process. This is a great hall as we call it in the old
It is still open today. In this hourlong program, curator sarah levit shows us what architecture can reveal about how the mentally ill were cared for over time. We decided to do this exhibition for many reasons, one of which i think its a real important moment to be talking about the role of the federal government in providing Public Health and providing healthcare for the mentally ill. And what that role has been over time. I think this is an interesting time to talk about that. Also, right now, at st. Elizabeths in d. C. , its really a time where theyre looking to develop the land. Its now split into two halves, the federal government owns half of it and it will become the department of Homeland Security, which is something thats happening right now and also development is really starting on the east campus, which is owned by the city of washington, d. C. , its a really interesting time to Start Talking about that since theyre really moving forward and starting that development proce
Schoolteacher and she was the family historian and my mothers family who were all in new orleans and she was the keeper of the lower among others are klansmen and she had some papers and files and she had a way of speaking about our Family History that was like this, the one to remember is are klansmen, my grandfather, he was a redeemer and the redemption returned white people to authority in new orleans after they had been Just Launched and if he had not acted in the battle of liberty we would not be here today, anyway, when she died her papers went to my mother and when my mother died, this is decades later, her files came to me, her files and this is how i rediscover the story of our klansmen and wrote about it. You remember your aunt maude, it sounds like she spoke of, say his name. Its spelled constance, he was a French Carpenter raised and spoke french. Is it fair to say in your family he was heroic. He was heroic for 100 years, as were the clans people, the klansmen for most, th