President trump signed an order establishing a commission to promote patriotic education. That same day a Panel Discussed History Education in the United States. The white house hosted and provided this video. This is a panel on the recovery of the history of our country which is being distorted and we have several experts who know about the distortion and history. We will talk about them and people correcting history. Stake andself its at freedom is at stake, but also humanity is at stake in this argument. I am teaching a course on totalitarian novels. 1984 Winston Smiths job is to rewrite history. Changes,e the party contemporary or old, every written reference in every book and article and every encyclopedia and every publication is corrected and the old version is burned. The whole thing is reprinted a new. It must be an enormous effort, the main work of the regime of 1984. He does not fully understand why they do that, but he learned in the end, and what the most remarkable themes
You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historian, what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed . [laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense alienation. I think that would be
Be at this important event today and for all you do. Guest thank you very much bill, thank you for the opportunity ive enjoyed it. Host it is a real privilege and honor is someone who spent a lot of time in state and local government. Your time on capitol hill i know you have a long history of education and so many at home. I thank you very much for taking the time to be with us today. John, it is really a pleasure to see virtually, i cant wait until we can see again in person sometime. I look forward on updating on some of the important works in colorado. We do good, son of a colorado, i look forward to that. Let me jump right into it, if you could just kind of give all of us the lay of the land in colorado prayed there so many Different Things happening, so many different approaches. Where are you right now in the education response to the pandemic . If you could give us a quick overview and then jump into the situation. Really the start of the summer we prioritize a safe return to s
Well polio be eradicated worldwide the World Health Organization declares a major victory against the virus in africa but its still crippling children in afghanistan and pakistan all the lessons to be learned in the battle to control the coronavirus pandemic this isnt. Hello welcome to the program im wrong come on how do you know used to paralyze and disfigured tens of thousands of children every year and some didnt survive but major strides have been made in eradicating the disease much of the world is now polio free including africa the continents last case of naturally occurring polio was reported in Northern Nigeria 4 years ago but the campaign in borno state to immunize every child was attacked by boko haram fighters who killed an abducted Health Workers some children can still be struck by a red phone a polio virus it mutates from the polio vaccine and can then cause an outbreak in communities which havent been immunized. Lets have a look at the global fight against polio the dis
Well polio be eradicated worldwide the World Health Organization declares a major victory against the virus in africa but its still crippling children in afghanistan and pakistan all the lessons to be learned in the battle to control the coronavirus pandemic this isnt. Hello welcome to the program i mean wrong polio used to paralyze and disfigured tens of thousands of children every year and some didnt survive but major strides have been made in eradicating the disease much of the world is now polio free including africa the continents last case of naturally occurring polio was reported in Northern Nigeria 4 years ago but the campaign in borno state to immunize every child was attacked by boko haram fighters who killed an abducted Health Workers some children can still be struck by a red phone a polio virus it mutates from the polio vaccine and can then cause an outbreak in communities which havent been immunized. Lets have a look at the global fight against polio the disease was commo