Im pleased to welcome arlo guj troy this program. Hes been a leading voice in america. More than 50 years since his album, alices restaurant. Famous of Woody Guthrie. He is the in the midst of running down the road tour. Were delighted he took time off from the tour to stop by the studio. Its an honor, sir to you have on this great program. Thank you. Thank you. Let me start with this. I was just tickled when i came across this. So his father, woody, wrote a song called old man trump. Yes. That trump. About his racist landlord fred trump who happened to be, as you know, donalds father. One of the lines in the song, and i quote, i suppose that old man trump knows just how much racial hate he stirred up in that blood pot of human hearts. We draw that color line here at his beach haven family project. So your father lived in a trump building. Me, too. Thats why i brew up. Thats where you grew up. And your father had something to say about old man trump. Yes, did he. What do you make of th
That too kind introduction. I am happy to be back here. I thought i might not go home. I know when you do this kind of lecture, it is customary to warm the audience up with a few funny stories. If i had known 14 months ago i was coming back, i would not have told you all of my funny stories. [laughter] it is probably best that we move forward with our talk about liliuokalani. I am anglo. Actually i am partly cherokee native, but i am in mainland writer, so the times i will have to speak in hawaiian, it is sick. We will talk about the hawaiian language. The first thing i need to do is make some disclaimer of utility, because captive paradise is intended to explain the essentials of how the United States, how we got our hands on the place. Reviewsever gotten so such memorable reviews, im used to getting reviews, but what i got from wall street all the way to honolulu magazine were extraordinary, really wonderful reviews, which did not prepare me for the anger i saw in the native independ
The university of Mary Washington in fredericksburg, Virginia Held this illustrated talk as part of the crawly great lives lecture series. So thank you dr. Crawley for that too kind introduction. I am delighted to be back here. Was here ad when i year ago that i might not go home. I know when you do this kind of lecture, it is customary to warm the audience up with a few funny stories. If i had known 14 months ago i was coming back, i would not have told you all of my funny stories. [laughter] james haley it is probably best that we move forward with our talk about liliuokalani. I am anglo. Actually i am partly cherokee native, but i am in mainland writer, so the times i will have to speak in hawaiian, it is sick. We will talk about the hawaiian language. The first thing i need to do is make some disclaimer of utility, because captive paradise is intended to explain the essentials of how the United States, how we got our hands on the place. I have never gotten so reviews such memorable
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. David armitage is a historian and author and his new book is called civil war, a history and ideas. It traces the most famous from ancient times to current conflicts in iraq and syria, and professor armitage, and a honor to have you on the program, sir. Thank you, tavis. If ever there were a contested term civil war would be it, and we want to get to why it is so contested in a second, but i want toer start out by asking what is it about these civil wars to make you interest ed enough to do the research on it. This book calm to me in Southern California about ten years ago when i was woshing at the beautiful Huntington Library outside of pasadena, and reading the letter s s of a man named Francis Lieber who was a lawyer in the 1860s and charged to the write the first codes of the war for the army during with what we call the u. S. Civil war. He was having trouble defining what a civil war was. I was interested i
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. David armitage is a historian and author and his new book is called civil war, a history and ideas. It traces the most famous from ancient times to current conflicts in iraq and syria, and professor armitage, and a honor to have you on the program, sir. Thank you, tavis. If ever there were a contested term civil war would be it, and we want to get to why it is so contested in a second, but i want toer start out by asking what is it about these civil wars to make you interest ed enough to do the research on it. This book calm to me in Southern California about ten years ago when i was woshing at the beautiful Huntington Library outside of pasadena, and reading the letter s s of a man named Francis Lieber who was a lawyer in the 1860s and charged to the write the first codes of the war for the army during with what we call the u. S. Civil war. He was having trouble defining what a civil war was. I was interested i