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
No. Hello and welcome to the other talk series. And virginia prescott and the host to deny the conversation with some fine about the zealot and the emancipator john brown and the struggle for american freedom. Theres a link to the right of your screen or you can go to the link provided at the History Centers web site. As we are talking please submit your questions with the q a feature at the bottom of the screen. Not the chat, just the q a. Tends to get less credit that when i will try to integrate as many of them into the conversation as they can. H. W. Brands is the chair of the university of houston and offered some 30 books on u. S. History month in the First Americans biography for pulitzer prize. Bill brands thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. Abraham lincoln and john brown wellknown historians. What did you want to add to the understanding of these famous american martyrs really by writing this . I think teaching American History for 35 going on 40 years a
Much goes into the planning of the conference, and its gratifying to see a Record Number of colleagues from across the region taking advantage of our good work. For the first time ever, we hit over 1200 registrations. Welcome to our returning attendees, new attendees, and remote viewers who may be tune in through zoom or via cspan who has asked to broadcast the recording for todays keynote. We are absolutely thrilled to reach so many colleagues, wherever you might be. It took a whole team to get us here, team of colleagues representing more than 17 campuses in the broad expanse or our metropolitan region. They and others are volunteering time and energy to ensure all runs smoothly. We would nominally ask them to stand and be rick need built that not possible this year, unless you want to do so from home, please too. So as you see them convening sessions or helping, thank them for their work. Idles like to take a moment to wreck fine tee enormous effort taken by their center for teachin
[background sounds] [background sounds] good morning, everyone. Today is november 11. Before i get started talking about what we are here today, id like to give a heartfelt prayer of thanksgiving to all of those that gave their lives to this country, all those people are continue to serve. This is a special day. This is a hollow day. Growing up my dad served in world war ii, in the navy, and people were called to serve and then we had korea, vietnam and the people serving today. So we can never forget and we can never give them enough thanks what theyve done for this nation. One of the things they fought for is for our right, our freedom to have free and fair elections. So that is at the end of day what we really need to be mindful, particularly of our office as we work finishing up and closing out the election we just had. Also want to do, give a heartfelt thanks to the minute women who are standing with me here today. These are election of directors from across georgia. They represen
Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. So lets start with the idea of your book 1 billion americans try to get more people in here . 670 Million People. And then sometimes have a Bad Reputation and how clean it was good. And then to be provocative and i thought to thought experiment like chinas competition we just cannot grow as fast. But we can have more people we spend money to keep them out and we dont have as many children as they say we want to have. We occurred provide childcare so why not . When i do it . Limited to say thats too many people like is hong kong to be crammed in like sardines. Is that true . With one americans the population would be about half. Yeah america is empty with a lot of amber waves of grain. [laughter] is just really big and stuff is historically odd 330 million in canada they are 25 million we make policy choices mature. Our career to get a lot of people to. It is very deliberate you look at the George Washington administration, there is a l