You are watching American History tv, covering history cspan style, with event coverage, eyewitness accounts, archival films, lectures, and college visits to museums and historic places. All weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Bidens record is a shameful roll call of the most catastrophic the trails and blunders in our lifetime. He has spent his entire career on the wrong side of history. Our current president has failed in his most basic duty to the nation. He has failed to protect us. He has failed to protect america, and my fellow americans, that is unforgivable. The first president ial debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President joe biden is tuesday september 29th at 9 pm eastern. Watch live coverage on cspan. Watch Live Streaming and on demand at cspan. Org, or listened live on the free cspan radio app. 75 years ago in the summer of 1945, the United States dropped two atomic bombs on japan. One was on hiroshima on august 6th and the other on nagasaki on august 9
That awe fore mentioned state multinational conglomerate. And 2003s mapping Human History, it was not nateed for the National Book award. His work has been featured in atlantic monthly, science, smithsonian and other magazines. Hes a consultant writer for the National Academy of sciences and other National Scientific organizations. Kathleen friend ken is the author friend ken is the author of plume. She was also the Washington State the poet laureate from 20122014, and shes currently serving on the board of jack straw, a local cultural incubator. Theyre here tonight to talk about steves book, the awe pock lips factory plutonium and the making of the atomic age. Please join me in welcoming them. Thanks, wis er. As you noted, kathleen knolledded a book authored a book in 2012, and all of those poems are about hanford. For the beginning of this conversation, kathleen is going to read a poem from her new book of poems which is entitled postrow plant you can and is coming out in october fro
Throughout the country and the world, people raise questions about the purposes of the leaders who supported or profited from slavery, whether in richmond, boston, or birmingham, monuments and statues have become a flashpoint for the black lives matter movement. Since 2015, ford has held an annual Summer Institute set in myth memory, monument, and that has forced questions of remembrance and memorialization. Each year, we find the spring has brought new and urgent crises that require attention and consideration. This year, more that more than any recent memory, demands that and more. Today, we explore some of these questions with you. I am pleased to welcome dr. Toary green and kevin levin todays cabinet conversation. Both dr. Green and mr. Levin have written extensively on how a wide range of americans commemorate the civil war. Sharingrrently different perspectives on civil war memorials. They have been active in recent debates dr. Green is an associate professor of history and the d
Welcome to the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute Virtual Event series. Our center for Public Affairs programming offers lectures and forms presenting perspective on important Public Policy issues of the day, each year we bring you 20 to 30 events from politicians, authors, members of the media, business and military leaders and more. Since the march 2020 closure of many businesses across our great country, the ragan foundation is bringing events online to ensure we are still delivering worldclass content even if you cant get to our hilltop to watch it in person. In this weeks center for Public Affairs Virtual Event we bring you Chris Wallace, inker of fox news sunday. 2014 marked his 50th year in the broadcasting industry, hes participated in coverage of nearly every Major Political event and also secured high profile interviews with dignitaries in u. S. Leaders to stop for the last three years Chris Wallace has broadcast a sunday morning show live from the Reagan Li
Wilmington, delaware. My family had a Construction Business there, which was quite old. It is still in business. And i went to school in delaware, i went to the university of delaware. So my history basically was in delaware before i went into the service. Now i tried to enlist in the service the minute we were attacked by japan. But i was colorblind. And i could not get in. But they had what they called the enlisted reserve corps. Which they let College Students go into with the idea that you would serve a basic training and then you would go back to school, and the thinking was maybe this war wasnt going to go too far. So you would go back to school and you would start again wherever you left off. I went to try to enlist, but i was colorblind. Had to go back. Finally i got in the army. But i was restricted in what i could do. I went to texas for basic training. I spent 16 weeks in texas. They sent me from texas to the university of connecticut to continue my education. And unfortunat