In the next sixty minutes tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of athens in a dispute with its neighbor over the name macedonia. Political turmoil and on rest in the maldives as the opposition files in each minute motions on senior government gets. Talking tough on venezuela the u. S. Secretary of state discusses the political instability on his trip to argentina. And in sport the new wing England Patriots are preparing to face the Philadelphia Eagles in the super bowl the patriots Quarterback Tom Brady is aiming for eighty six championship title will be live in minneapolis added the game. Come to the program our top story more than one hundred thousand people have been demonstrating in the greek capital athens against the use of the name macedonia by its neighboring country greece has blocked the former yugoslav republic from joining nato the European Union saying its name implies a claim over the greek province also called macedonia the protesters are angry at sugges
St. Josephs Preparatory School is a philadelphia institution. Mayor Michael Nutter and democratic candidate for mayor jim kenney all graduated from the prep. Not to mention past and present city council members, judges, and sports icons like phil martelly. Joining me is father john swop. He was recently named the new president at the prep. Thank you for being here. Pleasure to be here. You grew up in drexel hill. Im a drexel hill guy. How does it feel to be back . Its been a long journey. Its been many, many years, vai, traveling as a jesuit, working on different missions, even internationally, studies all over the country, but ive had some time now in the last important month or so that look back on my years as a jesuit and i think its all coming together and its all for a purpose and im going to bring it all to bear at st. Joes prep. Well talk about some of your International Travel and some of the many connections you have created over the years, but just getting back to st. Joes pr
Other stops on our tour at www. Cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. Next come historians discuss u. S. Foreignpolicy on human rights during the latter half of the cold war. Chileters focus on iran, and cuba. They also examined the american stance on womens rights, torture and oppression in the developing world from the 1960s on. This session was hosted by the American Historical Association at their annual meeting. Its about an hour and a half. Thank you for coming to this session on human rights in the late cold war era. My name is amanda moniz. On the curator of philanthropy at the Smithsonian National museum of American History. Until recently, i was associate director of the National History center of the American Historical Association, which sponsored this afternoons panel. Amanda perry is the new assistant director. We are grateful to sarah snyder for organizing this panel. Panelistsroduce our all together and then we will hear their papers, wh
Was an era of political revolutions. The reverberations of which are still felt today. Latin america was really defined, the 1960s by the cuban revolution. There was a greater push for independence, sovereignty, autonomy from the United States. It was a region where some of the battles between capitalism and communism, oritarianism, played out with the greatest drama. It was an era of military coups everywhere from Central America down through brazil and argentina. There were movements not just in latin america, but in other parts of the world in the 60s and 70s to bring more Left Progressive government into power and in reaction to that, military dictatorships took hold in much of the Southern Cone and brazil. [narrator] inspired and at times supported by cuba, a half dozen nations saw political revolutions in the 1960s alone. This is a time of communism versus anticommunism and we saw a wave of military dictatorships come in in defense of democracy, but undermining and in fact, movin
It is my pleasure to introduce this afternoons speaker for this seasons final washington history seminar. Director and oxford. He received his doctorate in history from Harvard University and is the author of the war ,hat brought peace to mexico world war ii and the consolidation of postrevolutionary state. Published by the university of new mexico press in 2014. Dr. Jones is timothy had positions at Harvard David Rockefeller Center for that american studies and the office of the historian of the state department where he coedited the Foreign Relations for the United States volumes covering u. S. Policy toward latin america during the next and, ford, and carter administration. Onay he will be speaking crimes against securities of a nation, world war ii, the cold war, and the evolution of mexicos antisubversion laws. Mr. Jones. Jones thank you very much indeed for the introduction of for all of you for being here. Its a pleasure to be back in washington. I did spend a very rewarding few