Peep peoples feelings about the confederate war. I think students in the classroom and general readers want to know how people feel about these issues. So i got interested with a colleague i worked with for many years, jim downs, and we put together a series. We had a panel called history in the headlines, and we got historians to talk about how we wanted to make sure we were plugged in to these larger issues. We put out a topic that is a burning issue. Certainly the confederate statues and memorialization, when we put it together a roundtable of scholars in 2017, published in 2019. We wanted to really address something that could be contemporary and fresh. We discussed silent sam, the statue on the university of north carolina, the protests against it, wanting to pull it down. The board of overseers taking a stand against removing it. More protests to follow and then eventually the sale of it is a really interesting issue, money being donated for the removal. This, i know, happened at
Rich and deep history, the conditions are optimal for inventing president ial and first lady laura and legend, but as we see with the gilbert story, for example, history is often, gated and complex often complicated and complex. This and otherh programs on her website, where all of our video is archived. The cspan cities to her is exploring the american story as we take book to be an American History to be on the road. With support from our spectrum cable partners, this weekend we travel to san antonio, texas. Experienceur we will the history of the history of this southwest texas city. The san with a visit to antonio mission historical park. Following that in 20 minutes we hear about the role the city played in early military aviation. Visit one of the citys most recognizable features, the historic riverwalk. Later, a trip to the Spanish Governors Palace, one of the oldest old dings in the city, dating to the founding. We begin our feature at mission four colonialof Spanish Missions i
Announcer this is american eight hours of programs exploring our nations past, and for more information you can check out our website at cspan. Org history. Announcer this weekend, American History history tv is running our Cable Partners to showcase the history of san antonio, texas. To watch more video from the cities on our current tour, visit cspan. Org citiestour. We continue now with our look at the history of san antonio. Catherine the American Civil War has had a really grand impact around the world because people look to this nation nearly coming back together and having a new birth of freedom and here we are in the 21st century having really quite serious debates. The headlines, the newspapers, a lot of commentary was focusing in on statuary confederate statutes. In peoples deep feeling about the legacy of the civil war, what the civil war meant today and i think students in the classroom and general readers want to know how people feel about these issues. I got interested wi
However get out today in just midday this said tuesday here in moscow and kevin owen who with the world news updates the next 30 minutes searching some news coming in to tell you about in the world of football a sport 1st off for you a for president Michel Platini has been taken into custody in france called into reports the former head of footballs governing body in europe was detained as part of a long going your best occasion into alleged vote rigging in the 2022 world cup selection qatar of course was chosen teenie has been accused of accepting payment in exchange for his vote mr pertaining to his side has denied any wrongdoing but as it stands so far as lunchtime hes been taken into custody in france well get more details on that throughout the day for you bring in our Sports Correspondent as well to talk a little bit more about it in the coming hours. The u. S. Is ordinal 1000 troops to the middle east amid an escalation in tensions with iran or shinton says the forces are for de
to reopen today. what this means for the nationwide shortage and how soon could formula be back on the shelf. i have been told that this person did not have a motivation. new details on the school massacre in uvalde, texas. whether classes will ever be held at the school again. two former trump officials won t be charged for stonewalling the january 6th committee. we have reaction from committee members ahead of next week s high profile hearing. you have to have fun in summertime. and on the road again. decades-high inflation not stopping millions from traveling this summer. how people are getting creative, changing travel habits to salvage their vacations. plus the show goes on despite the queen s absence. the platinum jubilee celebrations under way today. newsroom starts right now. we are so grateful to see you on this saturday, june 4th. welcome, i m christi paul. great to be with you, i m boris sanchez. you re live in the cnn newsroom. we re lookin