Available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Next on American History tv, art historian Judy Scott Feldman analyzes artistic portrayals of the American Revolution and civil war. She talks about the influence of painting, sculptors, and memorials on how history is remembered. The Smithsonian Associates posted this event. Posted this event. We are going to look at the American Revolution and civil that. Ut a little beyond controversies about the stories we tell. I am going to focus, because it is impossible to cover such an amount of material in one talk, i will focus on the capital and the public buildings on the mall , which is the centerpiece of American Political Culture and our public culture where people come from all around the world in country to participate government, to learn about government, understand our heritage, so i thought, what is it we say to those people when they come to washington . What have been some of the controversies . What are some of the i
Norway conducted by norwegians it was obvious to partner up with the Norwegian Embassy soar to say a few words to our friends specifically to the minister counselor for communication and Cultural Affairs and education at the Norwegian Embassy he served in washington for about 10 months and previously in the immediately preceding was in at the Foreign Ministry but also in good diplomatic fashioning countries as well as in the kansas to land and morocco and the entire Region Embassy are good friends who have a number of interesting evens with them were delighted to work with them and have them here so perhaps a few words from our norwegian friends . [applause] good evening. Were glad to work with best buy museum. Thank you for this program to hear about the events to hear about the history of my own country and it does not take a bigger part to reshape the worlds history because that might have been devastating so just a few days ago in norway celebrated the 71st anniversary of the surre
Here are a few of the book festivals we will be covering this spring on cspans booktv. We will visit maryland for live coverage of the gaithersburg full book festival with congressman tom davis as well as former Senior Adviser to president Obama David Axelrod and we will close out me at book expo america new york city where the Publishing Industry showcases their upcoming books. On the first week in june we are live for the Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest including three and our live in Depth Program with pulitzer prize, on booktv. Welcome to topeka on booktv located in the northeast region of kansas, topeka is its capital city with a round 127,000 residents. Leading into the civil war this region was the site of many border clashes will screen pro and anti Slavery Forces earning it the nickname breeding the the leading kansas. It became known as the site of the landmark 1957 Supreme Court case brown vs. The board of education which declared racial segregation in Public Schools u
Negotiation table in paris in december . Well, you got a lot and that [laughter] let me just add that hank paulson as many of you know is lifelong committed along with his wife conservationists and environmentalists. So thats hit him at his everywhere he has tremendous knowledge of Cross Section of china and the environment. Thank you, andrea. And the Polson Institute is the biggest programs we have our air quality and climate, and a u. S. Of China Council focus on sustainable urbanization. So him and i see where the question comes from because if you had asked me going back, if im sitting here today and i didnt know how bad the air was which i sure do, i just was a couple of weeks ago was at ground zero of this problem. You could hardly see you couldnt see the sun come and everything was archaic. A chapter in my book is called darkness at noon. But if most of all the things the chinese were doing in terms of investing in a new clean technologies, turning down shutting down dirty plant
Camps they were barbed wire enclosures with machine guns manned by american soldiers at these 10 relocation camps. First they went to 18 Assembly Centers they were called. Santa anita racetrack was one the livestock pavilions in washington and oregon and the people lived in stables. They were amazingly compliant as they were rounded up. There were only for four people who didnt as it were show up and even in santa anita where they recreated these kinds of small town america where there were 18,000 people held at santa anita all of them claiming that they are stable with the manure and Everything Else and it had been see biscuits. That was the mark of distinction. They were held there for three months until the camps were almost finished. The camps were built for plans for prisoner of war camps. They were 12 by 20 to 18 by 10 tarpaper enclosures. The latrines were outside. The water was outside. The kitchens were outside. The latrines womens latrines which were a great problem worth lon