[applause] the barbed wire and guard towers but the memories come flooding back for so many people who until today have lost such a big part of their child. For many released after the war some very good memories and with it the history of this camp now more than 60 years later. Said the government comes to the department and says we have a deal for you. We will reunite you with your families and the crystal city internment camp come in the same internment camp if youll agree to go voluntarily and then i discovered what the real secret of the camp was. They also had to agree to voluntarily repatriate to germany into japan if the government decided they needed to be repatriated. So the truth of the matter is the camp was humanely at mr. Bayh the ims had bit the special war division and department of state use it as roosevelts primary Prisoner Exchange and the center. I really want to talk about ferguson. The reason i want to talk about ferguson is there so many Different Levels of emoti
Figure him out . Were going to do it through his very close comrades, those who lived and worked with him and kind of see what they had to say about him. This is not an easy task because around stalin there are many lies. There are lies that stalin told about himself, there are lies they regime told about him in official propaganda. There are lies his enemies who survived somehow and fled abroad into immigration told about him. And then there are the fantastic stories made up about him and what he call the biographies of stalin. So there is a lot of junk surrounding him, and so you kind of have to work through. Its sort of like the ship that has been in port too long and you get out the scraper and begin to scrape the barnacles off the man, stalin to try to see if you can get back to this process of his evolution as a person. So let me give you one example of Something Like this. In the spring and summer of 1923, spring and summer of 1923, right . The stalin is 45 years old. He has bee
Professor thompson ok, remember how we were talking about proslavery views. But especially talking about how they use the bible. Picking up on the last one as a way to talk about something that is going to happen in the africanamerican experience, especially as they read to read the bible themselves. The conflated story, the mark of cain, the curse of ham. We did not talk about, because the reader does not pull those text together the tower of babel is often used to talk about what you have different races of people. So, i am adding that one in. It is an example of a way you can understand difference, the different races that exist. This is a whole code for households, women and children but included in that is slaves. Included in that, slaves being obedient to their masters. The first pass a job timothy is the person the first passage of timothy is the same. How to be a good slave. And then there is a code for how to treat slaves. In the argument, if slavery is being talked about, it
Story of lincoln. I am looking forward to finishing it. Lincoln is a particularly revered figure. He is revered in kansas in that we came into the union in the same time he is coming up. The kansas people were passionate abolitionists and for lincoln. He said, once famously, if i were a young man now, i would go to kansas. So, we came in with lincoln, and we have stayed with him. Throughout the weekend, American History tv is featuring topeka, kansas. Our staff recently traveled there to learn about its rich history. To learn more, visit cspan. Org. You are watching American History tv, all weekend and every weekend on cspan3. Each week American History tv sits in on a lecture with one of the Nations College professors. You can watch the classes every saturday evening here at 8 00 and midnight eastern. Next, Mercer University professor Douglas Thompson talks about religion and its impact on the relationship between slaves and their owners during the antebellum period. He cites nat turn
This class is about one hour. Professor thompson remember, we set the last couple of days focusing on how they were using the bible to make arguments on slavery. We talked about these texts already. Im pointing you to them again to highlight why they matter, but also become on last one as a way of talking about what will happen within the africanamerican experience, particularly as they read scripture for themselves. The genesis nine account is what it is generally referred to it is actually the curse placed on cain. We talked about the completed stories and the curse of ham. We did not talk about because the reader does not pull it together something known as the great dispersion, the power of babel text. It is often used to talk about why you have different races of people. Im adding that in. The generous 11 account and the tower of battle is a way that you can understand difference the different races that exist. Ephesians text, which is a whole household code, both for husband and