Chat box is a reminder that when we come together to learn with reason, we can indeed appeal to the better angels and Grow Together in wisdom. Im so grateful to all of you for having spread so much historical and constitutional light. On behalf of the National Constitution center, youthank y so much for a wonderful discussion. See you on june 30th for the battle of the constitution and the future of policing. Thanks to all. Have a good night. Thank you so much. Youre watching American History tv. Every weekend on cspan3, explore our nations past. Cspan3, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Were featuring American History tv programs as a preview of whats available every weekend on cspan3. Tonight a look at programs from the Kansas City Public Library in kansas city, missouri. We begin with a talk about the life of Millicent Patrick. Mali omeara will discuss her book life of hollywood artist Millicent P
Now it is a great honor to introduce our guests. What an amazing panel. Americas most distinguished historians and scholars of congress to help us understand our current vexations. Edward ayres is president emeritus at the university of richmond. He is the author of many books on the civil war and reconstruction, including, i will highlight one of his many Award Winning books the thin light of freedom the civil war and emancipation in the part of america, which he discussed at the National Constitution center in 2017. His forthwomaning do ining book southern journey. Welcome, it is an honor to have you. My pleasure, thank you. And Joanne Freeman is 1954 graduate of Yale University and is a professor of American History and american studies at Yale University, where she specializes in the politics and political culture of the revolutionary and Early National period. She is a cohost with edward ayres of a Popular History podcast back story. She is the author of many books as well includi
Partner with specific legislative vehicles. We have the ability to move very quickly in the next few weeks depending on what happens. So thats also a point that should be encouraging despite some of the discouraging lack of intentionality and action to date. By the senate leadership. Thats something again that we want to fix. Something we want to address. With that, i want to thank all of you. For the opportunity. For me to address you today. And the week. And encourage you to again practice social distancing. Physically distance where you must an make sure were all wearing face coverings and make sure you have a wonderful and safe and healthy weekend. See you back here on monday. Take care. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] cspan has unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the Supreme Court and Public Policy events.
College is going to have more instances if we keep it where the winner of the popular vote loses the presidency. It means that 30 of americans do not reflect the diversity will elect 70 of 100 senators. We know that natural residential patterns as well as in the way in which we do districts in the Supreme Court, that basically brushed aside doing anything about partisan gerrymandering will distort the house even for them. What voters want wont be reflected there. The courts are going to take us further and further away from popular will whatever it is with those elections. We are going to have some work to do to prevent a real crisis and legitimacy in the system that goes beyond some of these issues that we have talked about and even transcends some of these deeper divisions along racial and ethnic and regional lines. Thank you very much for that and for sobering us in such a powerful way. Ed, the last word is to you. The era of American Civil War in emancipation is far worse and we ca
Pathfinding mission, postwar food and humanitarian aid. It is used by George Marshall in formulating the marshall plan. And so hoover, under truman, i think gets rehabilitated. He is brought back into service. And in fairness, the only person who had really dealt with feeding millions of people and dealing with that kind of relief effort was hoover. Plus, he also still had a Network Within the leadership of europe that remembered him from world war i and especially in germany, really the only american they trusted after world war ii was hoover. Because at a time when the allies did not want food to go into post world war i germany, hoover fought to get it in. I feel it is one of roosevelts great feelings that he did not brief hoover on anything, not on the bomb, strategies, so truman had to take over with very little understanding of what was going on. So hoover was the only surviving expresident and the only person who really understood what the job was. I will let you wrap this up be