Newseum is the preeminent National Organization that explains, promotes and defends the five freedoms of the First Amendment and the right of free expression. We welcome over 800,000 visitors a year to our building with exhibits that explain the evolution of freedom. We invite people with very different philosophies to come together to discuss challenges to our fundamental liberties. At our newseum Education Program reaches over 7 million schoolchildren in the United States, and 150 countries across the world, and provides them with digital Course Material on freedom and democracy. We all know that there will inevitably be friction between an administration and journalists. However, perhaps at no point in living memory has there been more concern about freedom of the press in good part because of real or perceived conflict between the Trump Administration and the media. A recent Pew Research Center poll found that 83 of americans believe that current tensions have made the relationship
First speaker. Our topic is the fascinating friendship between two towering figures. The conservative torchbearer william f buckler and norman baylor. At the risk of sounding too cheerful, i must say that beginning with friendship kicks off the possibility of Common Ground between progressives and conservatives. It does seem unlikely that the buckleymailer relationship has an equivalent today. Seeing as we have historians and public intellectuals such as our speaker writing eloquently and persuasively about such friendship, the prospect seems far from lost. Our speaker, Kevin Schultz is the author of buckley and mailer. He is an associate professor of history, catholic studies at illinois in chicago, winning several awards for his teaching on the ethnoracial and intellectual history of america. Receiving his phd from berkeley in 2005, he began an academic and public intellectual career. He has published articles in journal of American History and american quarterly as well as essays in
I am Program Manager of the Common Ground initiative. I am pleased to usher in our first session and introduce our first speaker. At the risk of sounding too cheerful, i must say that beginning with friendship kicks off the possibility of Common Ground between progressives and conservatives. It does seem unlikely that the buckleymailer relationship has an equivalent today. Seeing as we have historians and public intellectuals such as our speaker writing eloquently and persuasively about such friendship, the prospect seems far from lost. Our speaker, Kevin Schultz is the author of buckley and mailer. He is an associate professor of history, cap at studies at the university of catholic studies at illinois in chicago, winning several awards for his teaching on the f no racial and intellectual history ethno racial and intellectual history of america. Receiving his phd from berkeley in 2005, he began an academic and public intellectual career. He has published articles in journal of America
Whenever we move into a landscape be interested in who lived there before. What is the really deep history. What can you find out about that because its always deeper than you might think. For more information on booktvs recent visit to Colorado Springs colorado and other cities visited by her local content vehicles go to cspan. Org local content. Next peter duffy recounts the life of William Sebold the first double agent in fbi history who infiltrated a nazi spy ring in new york city they resulted in 33 arrested in 1941. This program from the International Spy museum in washington d. C. Is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you. Its a real pleasure to be here at the museum which is such a fantastic facility. My experience and going through when i was researching this book and being a tourist here was fantastic. I was first introduced to it by a man i want to introduce who is a friend of the museum and a former fbi special agent and now a University Professor and author who was a very
Might have been in the 19th century both in terms of press culture and in terms of lincoln, almost imagining someone i would have worked for. What would he have required . Would he have been as difficult, demanding, i should say . He owned a german newspaper . [laughter] you have to imagine a press culture in which politics and journalism was interlocking. They were part of the same power culture. Newspapers were Party Organizations through and through. Lincoln had political newspapers that favored him in illinois, the surrounding area. This was prepresident ial. So, he wants to be president by 1859. German immigrants are flooding into the west, voting eligible german immigrants. They have their own german language newspapers. Lincoln found out that this fellow had a newspaper in the southern part of the state but his progressive views didnt fly there. He went bust. He said the name of the paper and moved his Printing Press to springfield, it illinois. Then he got into some financial t