the black panther party and chairman seale is in the process of producing a film and it s going to be very important film. there have been several films about the panthers and different aspects but they really haven t done justice to the history so this is a very important project that chairman seale is taking on we are fortunate he will get a chance to talk with all of us about that as well so he will be coming up as a special guest to speak after waldo. so let me jump in. this is a big look and i m not going to take a lot of time here but i want to give you sort of the outlying of the project and our argument. i m going to run through some of the photos. we are lucky to have 50 photos in the book and i will share them with you tonight eerie and we really started this project asking why in this moment in the mid-60 s after the tremendous success of the civil rights movement and the demonstrated power of nonviolence and claims for participation in american citizenship and rig
so what happened is that over the past two centuries, much with what has been written about napoleon was written from the french perspective since frenchman to is much more readily available. .. partover this ongoing part of this ongoing series of napoleonic wars is based on looking at the war from [inaudible] for more information on shreveport weekend on booktv, visit c-span.org/localcon p tent. next on booktv, jennifer ratner-rosenhagen talks about the impact of german philosopher frederick in each nietzsche. i m so pleased to welcome my friend, jennifer ratner rosen haggen, this evening. she earned her ph.d. in history at brandeis university and her ba from the university of rochester. prior to landing in mad southern, jennifer madison, jennifer taught at the university of miami where we were colleagues not so many years ago. jennifer s book, american nietzsche, a history of an american icon and ideas, was just published. she examines how nietzsche s writin
for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. q and a programs are also available as c-span podcasts. each week americ american h t tv s american artifacts takes viewers to archives, museums and historic sites around the country. the smithsonian museum of african-american history and culture will open a new building off the national mall in 2015. american history tv spoke to lonnie bunch, the new director of the facility. we spoke to him in a washington, d.c., suburb where he shows us the artifacts that will be on display in the new building. right now we are in the offices of the national museum of the african-american history and culture. this is where my staff and i will be until the museum opens in 2015. 6 years ago i started with a staff of two, no place to know for sure where the museum was going to be, no sense of what the building would look like. and today we have a wonderful architect who s created this wonder