Counterpart. Polk besides he has to accept the treaty because there is no longer congressional support. He writes in his diary about it saying the probability that congress would not grant man or money to prosecute the war and i might lose new mexico and california. To conclude here, did the Antiwar Movement achieve its goals . Certainly not. Henry clay wanted the United States out of mexico without taking territory. I do not know if it was an extremely realistic position but it was clays session. Did the antiway position. Did the Antiwar Movement and the war . I think it forced him so i think you can say it ended the war. It did limit the territorial acquisition. Had polk been allowed to continue fighting mexico would have been forced to give up more land will stop mobilized to the public land. It mobilized to the public in support of bringing a war to the close for the first time. It is important to recognize that Antiwar Movements existed in the past, they can work, and limit the lo
President s. Lectures and histories with college professors. And our new theories, real america, featuring educational those from the 1930s through the 70s. Cspan3, created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local provider. Watches on watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. All weekend, American History tv is featuring lincoln, nebraska. Our Time Warner Cable partners worked with cspan cities to her strap when we recently traveled to linking to explore the citys rich history. Learn more about lincoln all weekend here on American History tv. Before lincoln became the capital of the state of nebraska in 1867, it was a village, if you could even call it a village, of lancaster probably about the time of statehood in 1867 the population would have , been somewhere between 13 and 30. It was very, very small. There were no businesses here to speak of, the houses were very crude. When it was built, there is nothing here to attract the capital. The reason the ca
Each week, we take viewers into Historic Sites around the country. Next, don ritchie takes us t building. Har in 1983, it is the newest of the three Senate Office buildings after the russell building and the dirksen building. We are in the hart Senate Office building, which is connected to the dirksen building. They are two halves of the same building, that they are entirely different. The Hart Building is the central building. We are in the room known as hart 216. This room was specifically designed for television, and we are in one of the television booths overlooking the hearing room. This building is large. When they knew that the dirksen building was sufficient, they originally thought they would just replicate the dirksen building and build an identical twin on the other side. It would not be large enough. What happened between when the dirksen building opened and the Hart Building, was the u. S. Staff tripled in size. Part of that was watergate. Up until then, the executive bran
Executive producer, moderator and editor of closeup on cspan. Please join me in welcoming john and the panel to the stage. [applause] john hi, everybody, good evening. Thanks for joining us. You received information on your way in and my guests also did. So if you are here you know who the panelists are because that is part of the draw. Correct . Let me tell you where they are sitting from left to right. Jack, athe left is Pulitzer Prizewinning historian from stanford university. Just innext to jack, case we always like to have a backup Pulitzer Prize winner. Joseph ellis from the university of massachusetts at amherst. The rose between our thorns is a professor at austin Boston College and an author and she , will be back here on the stage tomorrow to talk about her book. And Kenneth Boling is the editor of the George Washington University First federal project. Let me tell you this unlike , delegates to the constitution convention, dying to get out of the overheated hall, you will be
The most recent book 1932 the rise of hitler and fdr. Give us a snapshot of what america was like. It was a mass. A great depression. People were stopped from foreclosing on mortgages. Rioting in some of the cities like philadelphia and new york city a bonus march and in washington and a march and it was this uninspiring figure Herbert Hoover in the white house said roosevelt moving up fast but there were questions is he the man for the job . Is the light weight . Not just republicans but prominent democrats or liberals. Is see a light weight . That is what the campaign is about. And giving off conflicting messages. The democratic platform might be a good republican platform in 2016 talks about cutting taxes and spending and rock proceed in and gives a speech in pittsburgh to the right of Herbert Hoover in to the rights of calvin coolidge. And it might even head toward a dictatorship there is an army officer named white eisenhower. He writes in his diary they call me dictator i because