President trump signed an order establishing a commission to promote patriotic education. That same day a Panel Discussed History Education in the United States. The white house hosted and provided this video. This is a panel on the recovery of the history of our country which is being distorted and we have several experts who know about the distortion and history. We will talk about them and people correcting history. Stake andself its at freedom is at stake, but also humanity is at stake in this argument. I am teaching a course on totalitarian novels. 1984 Winston Smiths job is to rewrite history. Changes,e the party contemporary or old, every written reference in every book and article and every encyclopedia and every publication is corrected and the old version is burned. The whole thing is reprinted a new. It must be an enormous effort, the main work of the regime of 1984. He does not fully understand why they do that, but he learned in the end, and what the most remarkable themes
Now on American History tv, Cornell University history professor Lawrence Glickman describing how the modern concept of Free Enterprise formed in the 130s during the rise of the new deal. Professor in american studies in the department of history at cornell. In addition to Free Enterprise and American History in 1919, he has written four other books including buying power a history of consumer activism in america published in 2009 and a living wage, American Workers and the making of Consumer Society published in 1997. He writes on a regular basis for popular publications including the washington post, though im not sure we would call that a popular publication. The Boston Review and dissent. His article was named one of the, i quote, most loved essays in the Boston Review in 2018. Thank you. Thank you to rachel for all the behind the scenes work and, pete, and eric and christian and all of the organizations that helped make this possible. Im really grateful. Thanks for all of you comi
Thank you very much. I am very honored to have been invited to speak and i really ouappreciate your comments. Its great to get to know you. Ive been reading you over the years and it isow a delight to have spent the evening. Im very pleased to be able to speak to you at this Hillsdale College of celebration. I am a great admirer of hillsdale. As i was saying i dont get to make many speeches like this. This. Im usually talking about crime rates and that kind of thing. But i wanted to speak at hillsdale because its one of the few institutions of Higher Learning where its worthwhile spending money to get an education at. [applause] and i mean that sincerely. Sadly many coaches these days dont even teach the constitution much less celebrated. One out of every four americans dont even know who we fought the revolution against. That number is increasing steadily as our educational institutions fail us. But at hillsdale you recognize the principles are asked to look into today and important a
Cspan 3, created by americas table Television Companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. More now on the Supreme Court case brought by jehovahs witnesses to overturn a West Virginia line the 1940s requiring students to salute the u. S. Flag. You are in for a treat. As the cofounder of the Jackson Center we are thrilled to have this opportunity to commemorate one of Justice Jacksons foremost opinions, if not his number one. West virginia versus barnett. We have some of the individual that we will be hearing to just recap to 2002, i believe, i tracked down murray and Lillian Barnett and had a chance down in charleston area, i didnt know as was happening, but all of a sudden this guy where the camcorder track two down and we had a chance to chat. And you are gracious enough to put up with me. Some of the interviews you just saw, in 2006 we had a chance to bring the barracks disturbs here. And together with our friends at cspan, filmed a presentatio
In 1943, the Supreme Court ruled in West Virginia state board of education versus barnett that Public School students could not be forced to salute the american flag. Some students opposed saluting the flag on religious grounds. Up next, a conversation about that Supreme Court decision. One of the first cases of, note, was the gobitas versus case. In the presentation is robert zick, core producer and spokesman for the world of jehovahs witnesses. They will be presenting from gobitas two barnett. Mr. Zick. Well thats a tough act to follow. I will need a screen. Well first of all, it gives me an opportunity, actually, a nice opportunity, to just mention we are really appreciative for the privilege of being here at the jackson center. We work with a tremendous staff, professional, qualified, and really such a pleasure to work. Of course, great peterson, who is a spirit behind the activities throughout the center, team captain who helped open up an opportunity to actually speak to a wider