Systemic racism. I think answer is yes. But theres no question that the outcomes seem to have a racial component. And that is why we are working on getting all of the information and then retraining and then eliminating those Police Officers who have a pattern of misbehavior. On americanies history tv examines the private lives and public roles of the nations first ladies through interviews with top historians. Monday night, we look at the first two first ladies, Martha Washington and abigail adams. Watch monday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan three. Next is q a. Book,penske discusses his in perfect union, which chronicles the free months who ushered fremont who helped usher in the california old rush. At 9 00, prime ministers questions. Later, President Trump addresses the graduating class at west point. Susan steve inskeep, your book is titled imperfect union how , john and Jesse Fremont helped cause the civil war. Why did you believe the story of a 19thcentury
It is a story leading up to the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States then that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological and economic change. The development of the temoak inof the telegraph came 1834. Within a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closer together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people on the others were saying. There is that. There is also just the fact that it is a