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winning over black voters let me give you now skeptics see this is a plan campaign stuck. the kayla montgomery, the woman there hugging the former president conservative media has been playing this clip of her hugging trump on a loop almost every hour on fox. understand that this was no chance meeting makayla told trump that she canvassed for him. she fund raised for him. she volunteered for the georgia gop. she organized the crowd of students and brought them there because he was coming. trump didn t just happen to walk into a random chicken joint and all the black people we ll just stood up and cheered michela says that she and the hbcu students with her now have gotten a lot of backlash because of this video. and i plan to ask her about all of that and we invited her to the show. she accepted the invitation to come on but then she canceled. she did. however, as i mentioned, she spoke the fox this is a sentiment. i get a lot coming from the young people themselves i ....
quite often, most of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were unpopular. let s go through a few cases that illustrate dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who stuck together because they believed in the rule of law. c-span and the national constitution center welcome you to the landmark cases. we explore the people and stories behind some of the supreme court s most famous decisions. tonight you will be learning more about the dred scott decision. let me introduce you about the two guests about the history. a professor and co-editor of a book of the dred scott case. welcome to our program. thank you for having me. martha jones is from the university of michigan and the chair of the african-american studies program at the law school. they can for having me. blacks, whether free or slaves weren t citizens of the united states. and they limited the spread of sliverry and saying co ....
mr. ferriero: for most people long out of school thinking back on u.s. history dredges up memories of lessons on the revolutionary war, the establishment of the constitution, and the war of 1812, and then jumps to the beginnings of the civil war. the in between times may be indistinct but they saw the emergence of an increasingly divided nation. throughout this time, the federal government, time and time again, had to deal with the questions of slavery and its expansion. among the the voluminous records of the federal courts in the national archives, are hundreds of freedom suits, cases brought by slaves seeking to obtain their freedom. one such case initiated by dred scott in 1846 made it all the way to the supreme court where the final decision became one of the most infamous decisions of the history of the court. our guest today looks at three notable pre-civil war supreme court justices and how they uphold the institution of slavery in ruling after ruling. the first ....
268,000, it is the second most populated city in the state, and home to the university of nebraska. what the health of our time warner cable partners, for the next hour we will explore the history and literary culture of this capital city. one of the most american writers of the 20th century, she was given almost every literary award possible. least 3000hind at letters that we know about. those letters are all over the world in different repositories. but we are fortunate that the good collections are here in nebraska. we are in the heritage room of the nebraska authors in the lincoln city library in lincoln, nebraska. trimurpose of they are to is to collect and celebrate and promote the works of nebraska authors. we began the collection in 1949. the library and originally helped just one bookcase where fromould put books nebraska authors. now we have 13,000 volumes. we represent more than 4000 nebraska and authors. we began our special look at lincoln with the st ....
this is nearly two hours. the topic of this panel is how should we think about american patriotism. our panelists need little to no introduction. they will each speak, and then i will ask a question or two. we will then take questions from all of you. the three speakers will be diana, bbill, and one other. she studied at the university of chicago. she is a co-author of a 2011 book. a book that amy and diane co-authored. she is also accompanied by an excellent website which i recommend to you if you have an interest in understanding america in general. it has wonderful reading and commentary. it is worth looking at. after diana, we will hear from jim. he is a student at leon cath. certainly a friend and influence d by leon. then, we would hear from bill the history professor at the university of oklahoma. bill has written wonderful works on american history, american society. about 20 years ago, it was a very important book. looking at the introductions, i believe both ....