as a way to highlight the transformation. yesterday, one of the things i did was to compare certain texts like uncle tom s cabin, as a framework exploring some of the themes of the displacement of god, the masculinization, this artifacts of the transformation of culture following the civil war, with rebecca harding davis, mark twain, and frederick douglass. today, what i want to do is start out telling a story, and i want to do it with one work of literature that you all know. so the text itself stays the , same, but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. so how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. i should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. david and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that? is that whit
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brown: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. brown: gunfire tore at the nation s holiday mood again today, with the emotional wounds from a school massacre still fresh. there were more fatal shootings, including one in western new york, where an attacker lay in wait for a fire crew. responding firefighters when they pulled up on the scene started receiving were fired upon. police speaking shortly after a home and car erupted in flames. it was arson they said later that
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions brown: christmas eve shootings killed two firefighters in rochester, new york and a policeman and bystander in houston, texas. good evening. i m jeffrey brown. ifill: and i m gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we have the latest on the killings, coming ten days after the massacre at sandy hook elementary school in newtown, connecticut. brown: then, we turn to egypt, and accusations of voting fraud in the referendum for a new constitution. we talk with opposition leader mohamed el-baradei. consider a sad day in my view for it is going to institutionalize ifill: the legal showdown between california health center that discusses marijuana and ifill: we have the story of a legal showdown between a california health center that dispenses marijuana and federal authorities. just people feel safe coming here. like going to your neighborhood cvs or anywhere else. brown: open season in congress look brown: seven wee
from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. is here.remnick he is the editor of the new yorker magazine. he brings with him a new book and looks at 1940 s history coulter through new yorker stories and pawns. the collection represents the great turn. the magazine s artistic awakening. how do you decide to do this? in internet terms, you want to surface your material. the new yorker has been around for coming up on 90 years. in the south, we call this plowing the ground. if you are starting to read the new yorker, you have no idea aj lee being ebay white is .b. white is not a name that comes up. by publishing to be like this, you bring first of all, you are showing how the new yorker developed. it s darted as a comic weekly. it was light, lively, age as each creation eight jazz age creation. it didn t ignore the depression, but the depression was in contradiction to the spirit of the magazine. it did not consider itself a political magazine. the war,