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Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 thats the job for a historian. Most historians, if they think about photographs at all, focus on them as images not material objects and as illustrations rather than as primary sources that can and should themselves be the subject of historical analysis. Watch ken burns 1996 series on the west and Pay Attention to his treatment of the pueblo revolt of 1680. While he uses engravings of spaniards it to visual issize the story he relies on 19th and 20th century sorry gave away my story there, trying to highlight this picture here, he relies on 19th and 20th century photographs to depict the pueblo protagonists. This approach conveys an insidious image. European people change with time. One would never use images from two centuries later to depict them, but native peoples live on in an unchanging past, a photograph made 24 ....
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Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Host we are back and we will spend this next segment talking about right wing extremism in the United States. With us is author and university of massachusetts lowell professor Arie Perliger, who is the author of american zealot, inside right wing domestic terrorism. Good morning. Guest good morning. Thank you for having me. Host lets frame this conversation how do you define first. Extremism . What exactly is it . Guest we are talking about a group or sometime individuals whose political views are on the margins, the extremities of the political spectrum. Not just that. They are also militant in the way they promote their views. That means that they are engaging in illegal activities as well as, in many cases, utilizing violence or violent practices to promote their goal ....
Cspan radio app. Here to join us to talk about the state of National Security sanderson. Homas , and im happy to beyond provide some insight and answer some questions. Host can you tell the audience about your background in this field . Guest i started out back in 1998 back in graduate school. This was the summer we were attacked in east africa by al qaeda. Defensework with a contractor called saic. I was assigned to programs looking at the threat of weapons of mass destruction, following the east africa bombings. We were concerned that al qaeda was seeking to up their game by using weapons of mass destruction. My team and i looked at the various groups that have tried to obtain weapons of mass destruction, from chlorine gas to using other materials. We looked at that, i did that for four years and i went off to china to do a fellowship. That happened to be right after 9 11, bow two weeks after 9 11. When i came back i joined t ....
Formed bidenharris ticket, and the role of women in 2020. Professor jennifer lawless joins us to discuss the evolution of women in electoral politics. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. 14, 2020. Ay, august yesterday, the Labor Department announced thousands of americans filed new jobless claims. It is the first time weekly jobless claims have fallen below one million since march. This morning, we are spending our first hour talking directly to those whose jobs have been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and economic downturn. Give us a call. 202 are unemployed, 7488000. If you have had your work hours reduced, 202 7488001. If you have recently returned to work, 202 7488002. Text,n also send us a 202 7488003. Please include your name and where you are from. A very good friday morning to you. Go ahead and start calling in now as we give you more context to the weekly jobless numbers that were announced yesterday, t ....