4985 strikes involving 4. 6 million workers in 1946, the largest number of strikes the bureau ever recorded in a single year. The main issues were low wages and rising living costs. Next, on reel america, for the record, a 1946 documentary about the strikes from the perspective of organized labor. Humming] look around you, my friend, and see what there is to see. There is the world. Mountains,ers, plains, all there before we arrived on the scene. That is where we come in, you and i, workers. , huge, tiny, the works, books and beans, divers, stoops, and skyscrapers. Watts and kilowatts. Tall, small, soft, hard. The plansh to smash germany and japan drew up for our future. Lots of our folks joined. Old hands from out of retirement and newcomers. Machines are not snobs. They become friends fast. Day in and day out, all around so muchk, we produced of the heavy stuff that even we were surprised. The nation was grateful. E for excellence flags flew everywhere for us. But when it came to liv
Is your unfiltered view of government. So you can make up your own mind. Brought to you as a Public Service by your cable or satellite provider. To becer next, a book exclusive, our cities to visits bozeman montana to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For eight years now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing the books in to our viewers. You can watch more at our visits on cspan. Org cities tour. Ivan doig is on montana author of 16 memoirs and novels. He was raised here in montana, spent his adult life in seattle but continued to come back to montana and wrote many books that are beloved, like this house in the sky, English Creek, dancing at the rascal fare, many others that are highly, highly regarded by people around the world. The collection is big. And i would like to introduce the dean of the library, kenny are ledge, who was instrumental in getting this collection. Sure. Away and are my associate and i traveled out to visit with carol doig at her invita
[applause] if you are not yet on the email list, signup. We just added senator amy so now for tonight, were it was unforgetting. Bobs story about the genius of the political like his subject, caro has no peer. Over the years bob has spoiled us with his portraits of robert moses and Lyndon Johnson and treated us to slight left turns in the narrative, his diversions into fascinating bystanders, they might form the basis of future studies in and of themself. So consider his new book, working, as a companion piece to his great moses and johnson books, and today in 2019 is more resonant than ever about power used for good and power used against the greater good. As the book answers core questions, it raises more, as caro gives us deep background into the ways and whys he does what he does with such graceful shorthand. Asra if his books werent physil and intellectual evidence enough about why he takes so long to crank out the next volume, caro gives us the background on the reasons he goes t
That is what were going to talk about today. After all, Abraham Lincoln had a lot on his plate. When he was president. The civil war. And that dominated most of his attention. But underneath the surface of the civil war, lay some important events involving American Indians. Events that might make Abraham Lincoln more of a problematic figure than he ordinarily is. So lets consider some u. S. Events in American Indian affairs that happened during his presidency. It was during his presidency that the socalled great sioux uprising or what we might call the dakota war of 1862 occurred. A conflict in which the state of minnesota was drenched in blood, as impoverished and hungry dakota waged war on settlers, then faced the wrath of whites, who hunted down susspected culprits, tried, convicted, and sentenced to death 303 men. Lincoln commuted the sentence of most of these individuals, but in the end, 38 were hung. In what remains americas largest mass execution. It was during the american pres
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