Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. [ applause ] i am Jeffrey Rosen, the president of this wonderful institution. And its such a great day to celebrate the relationship between National Constitution center and cspan. Cspan has an inspiring nonpartisan mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens and that coincides with the National Constitution centers mission, which i all want you to recite along with me to inspire our guests and our cspan viewers. The National Constitution center is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the constitution on a nonpartisan basis. Beautiful. That was so well done. [ applause ] i was so thrilled when my friend and colleague, susan swain, the head of cspan, came a few months ago or weeks ago, about three weeks ago, that said we have this great new book on the president s. Lets launch it at the National Constitution center. Were here to
Gutierrezromine teaches a class about laws and policies regard ago bor regarding abortion. She tracks Public Opinion through court cases and newspaper kofrncoverage. She also describes costs and health risks in different time periods and states. All right. Everyone, welcome back. This week were looking at the topic of abortion. And in class on tuesday we watched the film abortions stories womens health. That is looking at the more current debates about abortion now. It was looking at abortion in states that had begun to legislate abortion restriction. So today were actually going to go back in time a little bit. Were going to give some Historical Context and do a historical overview of the topic of abortion and were going to start nationally and then were going to look at california specifically, specifically on the topics of specialized abortion or abortion specialists and decriminalization. And then were going to go back to the National Context to look at roe v. Wade and then the leg
Or out of favor, a consensus formed in the United States around centrist political views to the point where the Political Parties were barely distinguishable. A belief in a mixed economy ruled, meaning a broad acceptance of some government involvement in the market. All right. So the last couple classes we have been talking about the red scare, kind of the impact of the red scare and policing the edges of american politics. Today well be looking at kind of the rest of the political landscape, beginning to look at what people now refer to as the liberal consensus of the 19 forts and 1950s and try to work through what actually is happening in terms of the kind of main thoroughfare of american politics, the possibility for Political Action and the way people are thinking about politics in america in the 40s and 50s. You also had three readings, all of which in different ways deal with the kind of idea of political ideology and all of which share a set of assumptions about the way that ide
Patrick charles is a former marine and now Senior Historian of the u. S. Air force, and now armed in of gun rights to concealed carry, thanks for being with us. Thank you, steve. Glad to be here. Let me begin with the origins of the nra, the National Rifle association. How did the Association Come about and why. Well it came about after the civil war where there was poor marksmanship so two officers decided to form the nra based out of new york with two purposes. One is to facilitate and build and grow long range rifle ranges and to assist the state National Guards in marksmanship. The nra initially, just so you know, was kind of a working to get appropriations from the government and they started off with one organization, they grew to 1700 by 1929. They are also are, just so you know, built on an english National Rifle association and they were predecessor in 1859 so this is the american version. The only thing that differentiated the two to start off with was this franchise like mod
Watch American History tv, tonight and over the weekend, on cspan3. All right. Since we have a very ontime sort of calming of the room, i am going to go ahead and kick us off. Thank you, so much, for coming to the violence in american politics panel. As i think we will see it as an incredibly timely panel. And a really good time to be putting these topics into the context of a broader American History. So im going to start off by introducing our panel. And then everyones going to give their opening statement. And then, we will start the conversation. So who is sitting right next to me is t. Cole jones. Assistant professor at purdue university. He is author of captives of liberty prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Reserve lugz, which will be released this fall by the university of pennsylvania press. In addition to his book, hes published articles in the journal of the early republic, the journal of military history and the new england quarterly. He is curren