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
Example to turn to in a time of crisis. He is notable for his empathy and accountability and humanity. Those characteristics were on display when he was living here at the cottage. Hit, we Current Crisis turn to dr. Jared peatman. Our First Program with jared sold out to capacity quickly and he agreed to do this on core program. Encore so much has changed that it will no doubt be a Different Program in its own right. From better for the college with a masters degree from texas a m. A metaphor toy as examine current leadership challenges. Is a senior fellow at the George Washington University Center for excellence in public leadership. He has delivered over 500 leadership seminars and dozens of different sites including gettysburg, mount vernon, the alamo, waterloo and president lincolns cottage. Jared was named the organization of american historians doctoral fellow. Prize fore received a the best work on a bram lincoln. Abraham lincoln. He is the author of a book on leadership lessons
Where thousands marched to drown out a farright gathering. President trump first announcing and praising the protesters who he eventually said were quote, speaking out against bigotry and hate. Well talk to chuck todd in a moment. And then later to one of the men who participated in the rally in charlottesville. Also sitting down with the marine actor who broke through on the hbo series girls. If you walk down the street in new york city probably because mainly because of star wars, the experience is different than it would have been two years. Yeah, it just kind of sucks. A sit down with adam driver later in the show. But lets begin with protests held in cities across the country. There were some arrests, but they were largely peaceful and a far cry from what we saw last week. Morgan, good morning. Reporter willy, good morning. Protests erupting from coast to coast. The largest protest was here in boston where more than 1,000 people took to the streets, far more than police expected.
To drown out a farright gathering. President trump first denouncing and praising the protesters who he eventually said were speaking out against hate. Later to one of the men who participated in the rally in charlottesville. Also this morning, a sunday sitdown with adam driver, the marine turned actor broke through on the hbo series girls and became a household face after he played the villain kilo ren in star wars the force awakens. If you walked down the street in new york city probably mainly because of star wars the experience is different than it would have been two years ago. And that kind of it just sucks. It kind of sucks. A sunday sitdown with adam driver a bit later in the show. Lets begin this morning with the protest held on saturday in cities across the country. There were some arrests, but were largely peaceful and a large cry from what we saw last weekend and Morgan Radford was in the middle of the biggest rally on saturday. Morgan, good morning. Reporter willie, good mo
And as many of you know, it was met with some degree of controversy because there are those american citizens who said, but this was just a political correctness. And there were others who, in fact, they didnt even know who Harriet Tubman was. And various pictures of Harriet Tubman appeared on the internet and the people women who were in fact not Harriet Tubman. Harriet tubman has usually been a subject of childrens fiction. And very few people really know, at least american citizens we historians know who Harriet Tubman was. But that wasnt thats not the case with the american public. It was irony noted or the irony was noted in having tubman on the front of the 20 bill. And Andrew Jackson on the back. As many of you know, Andrew Jackson was not only a slave holder himself, but he was also oversaw indian removal and is renowned for being, really, an indian killer. So in addition to that, many people pointed to the fact that here you have Harriet Tubman who was commodified, who had val