This weekend, booktv is live from the 33rd annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest in chicago. Our coverage starts today at 11 00 a. M. Eastern with author Mary Dearborn with her book, ernest hemingway, a biography. At noon, abram candy and his book. Followed at 1 00 by Michael Eric Dyson with his book, tears we cannot stop, a sermon to white america. And at 4 00, Sidney Blumenthal with his book. On sunday, our coverage continues at 11 00 a. M. Eastern with heather and thompson and her book, lead in the water, the attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy. At 2 00, Jeffrey Stone with his book. Then at 3 00, former congressman. Rey radel with his book at 4 00, author thomas riggs with his book, churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom. Watch our coverage of the annual printers row lit fest starting at 11 00 on cspan twos booktv. Sunday, q1 day is in hyde park, new york at the Franklin D Roosevelt museum where we go inside for a look at fdrs personal office and collection of
Teacher is question mark how do we define teacher is . How do we define test scores, etc. . How do we give every child access to a quality education, states most constitutions, these are questions we have to address. Host joyce is calling from cleveland. You are a teacher. Good morning. Caller good morning. I wanted to just say i think this is a very helpful program and discussion you are having because you are considering so many of the subtleties involved in teacher evaluation, and education in general. It should not be just a Blank Program with onesizefitsall, especially in teacher evaluation. I think it is important to remember that accountability is important, sometimes it becomes a political football, and some groups just feel they need to have their needs addressed and ignore other aspects of curriculum. I think it is important to have some curriculum standardization but not necessarily the same for. Very state and every area regional differences need to be considered and indivi
So, you represent this o basically a union spirit guest, it is. As far as the administrations on immigration, this is something they campaigned heavily on. At six months where are they smart. What weve seen is nothing short of miraculous. If you look at the rhetoric that president has given its cause the number of illegal Border Crossers to go down something and weve never seen in the history of the Border Patrol. We never seen such a drop. What do you attribute that to . If to enforcing the laws. What we have is we have a set of laws that are on the books that say if you cross the border illegally or if you commit this crime these are the consequences that have been established in the Trump Administration has said we are going to follow through on those consequences. Something we didnt see in the last four years of the last administration. As far as numbers, talk abou those, those were caught andf sent back and how do they compare to the Obama Administration which was a really big adv
On trial. A book she discusses managed titled records of the salem witchhunt. 12 individuals worked to complete the book. This presentation is part of an all day Salem State University presentation. Host welcome back. I am thrilled to see you all here for what should be a really interesting session. I would like to introduce to you my good friend and partner in witchcraft studies, margo burns. Margo was one of the leading experts on the trials. One of the editors in the records of the salem witchhunt. In some degree, she probably has forgotten more about the individual documents than i will ever know. We asked her to speak about those records and the Amazing Things you can learn from a close read of them. I should also mention that she is the author of my favorite articles on the salem witch trials. It looks at the issue of false confession that i strongly recommend to you. Margo burns. [applause] thank you. Just so you know, i have a completely different read on the coercion of false
History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook. Next on American History television, pulitzer prizewinning author eic foner on the challenges of establishing civil rights for friedman in the reconstruction period and beyond. Eric foner. With that, i would like to introduce eric foner. Eric when iuntered was a College Student thinking about becoming an historian and had visions of riding a good book. Then i read freemen, free soil, maybe ir and thought ought to stop now. I will not be able to write a book that good. Whatis is his first book, is he going to write . I ran away from antebellum history. You cant compete with people like him. I have come back to antebellum history and slavery and since then, i have relied on many of erics more than 20 books. I would review the list, but we do not have that much time. I do want to say, and this is the fun of introducing a speaker, looking at his selected publications, i notice he has written a