Pulitzer prize winning journalist chris hedges talks about his book wages of rebellion next. He discusses the causes of revolution and resistance by looking at stories of rebels throughout history and examines what it takes to be a rebel in modern times. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] hi there. Hi there. Can you guys hear me . Can you hear me in the back . Great. Im one of the owners here. Its great to see all of youd a labyrinth tonight. Welcome. Just a few practical things and then well get going. First, please turn off your cell phones if you havent done that already. Also our event season is islanding down but were planning great events for the fall so if you dont already get our email invite and would like to just leave us your email address on the back counter theres a signup sheet for that. In terms of the event tonight the logistics are i will do a very breath introduction, chris will speak and then there will be time for q a. I would just like to ask you w
Each week, American History artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next, a visit to the National Learn abouteum to the exhibit architecture of an st. Elizabeths, 1852 to 2017. Known as the Government Hospital the insane when it opened, d. C. D a you of washington, at its peak in 1960, st. Elizabeths had almost 8,000 and covered 300 acres. It is still open today. This hour long program, usator sarah levit shows what architecture can reveal about how the mentally ill were cared for over time. This decided to do exhibition for many reasons, one of which i think its a real important moment to be talking the role of the federal government in providing public and providing healthcare for the mentally ill. Also right now, at st. Elizabeths in d. C. , its really a time where theyre develop the land, its now split into two halves, halfederal government owns of it and it will become the department of Homeland Security, which is something thats happening right now and also development i
This is a newspaper clipping from the 1948 election. Somebody added comments to it. He expresses interest in their families as well as the people were writing back to him also house margaret, i hope they are doing well. This is a letter that talks about something with close pictures which is the clipping that they are referring to. They had to have before joked. All good wishes and congratulations to your your family. If you ever need anybody for entertainment purposes, let me know. President truman did not seek out entertainers or one the people. He cultivated some relationships, especially jack benny. He had a good friendship with him. Here is jack benny and president truman. This is at the truman library. They are at the library again. This is the clip. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all of our video is archived. That is cspan. Org history. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next, a v
It is still open today. In this hour long program, curator sarah levit shows us what architecture can reveal about how the mentally ill were cared for over time. Sarah we decided to do this exhibition for many reasons, one of which i think its a real important moment to be talking about the role of the federal government in providing Public Health and providing healthcare for the mentally ill. And what that role has been over. Ime it is an interesting time to talk about right now. Also right now, at st. Elizabeths in d. C its really a time where theyre looking to develop the land, its now split into two halves, the federal government owns half of it and it will become the department of Homeland Security, which is something thats happening right now and also development is really starting on the east campus, which is owned by the city of washington, d. C. Its a really interesting time to Start Talking about that since theyre really moving forward and starting that development process. T
[inaudible conversations] book tv is on twitter and facebook. And we want hear from you. Military force is one of the things think the American Public very often gets impatient about because they really believe they have this trump card, this great military that can defeat anyone. But its not true. It is an extraordinary military, very powerful, but can only win in certain situations and can only real request destroy things. Cant build a new order in its place. Sunday night, journalist and professor mark danner talks about his career and the challenges facing the u. S. War on terrorism in his latest book spiral we dont want to produce more militant organizations. They want us to overreact. They want us to occupy muslim countries so they can build their recutement. They want us to torture people. The want us to do things that is going to allow them to make their case against us. Sunday night at 8 eastern on cspans q a. Next week, beginning monday, december 26th well look at National Sec