Instagram at book underscore tv, or poster tour facebook page, facebook. Com book tv. Book tv on cspan2, television for serious readers. And book tv is on location on the campus of ucla. Were talking to professors who are also authors and history professor is our guests. She is the coauthor of this book the american war, the history of the civil war era. Joan, 1850, give us a snapshot of the United States. Guest 1850 was the first year of the decade that brought on the secession crisis led to the civil war. 1850 was the year that california came in to the union. 1850 was also the year that a compromise was forged, it was the last great compromise, they did not know it then, but we know it now that save the union. It was a compromise forged by the north and the south. That involved a number of major changes to the way territories would come into the United States and involved the passage of the new fugitive law act. Another compromises that neither side, north or south, pro free labor o
Book there we want to introduce you to the first time author, hellen raleigh, her book is called the broken welcome mat. Miss raleigh win did you come to united states. I came in set 96. As a graduate school student. From . Guest from Mainland China. Host when did you become a u. S. Citizen . Guest 2013. Host when did you start to the process of becoming a u. S. Citizen . Guest well, the day after i arrived in the united states, in 1996 as a student, i wanted to stay here, united states. So i come back from that day took me 17 years to jump through all 0 the legal hoops to become a naturalized oceanid. Host what are the hoops you lad to john jump through . Guest so, first is to maintain legal status. And our Immigration Law is stacked against the people like mow who doesnt have a family here because our Immigration Law heavily favor family preference. Because i dont leave a family here i need to first maintain my student status, and then find an employer. Thats the only way i can becom
Rural omaha. When i was a kid, everybody in my town got buffed out in the summer to walk beings. How many people know what that is . How many people know what detas sling corn is . I will not explain, i am not a geneticist nor biologically equipped to explain how is advanced. Ation i was on twitter trying to explain what detassling corn was and how you end up with mixtures of seed corn. I referred to corn as as bisexual and i set off a debate on twitter. I will not explain in technical terms what it means to be that corn needs to be detassled, what but you want cross pollinated corn so you predesignated male and female roles. Rows. A lot of kids in the eastern part of the state have been shipped out to the fields in the work. Fields in the summer to detassle corn and it is ugly and painful work. You meet up at the local junior high or the local elementary out toand get bussed wherever you are going to go. You are taking the corn that has male and female parts and you are removing the m
And marked a diplomatic achievements in a generation, successfully blocking iran from developing a Nuclear Weapon through diplomatic, not military means. We owe it largely to the leadership of leg slislators li chris murphy who im privilegeed to introduce today. Senator murphy had been at the connecticut politics for decades before his election to the United States senate in 2012. The election brought him to national e tension and seat on the Foreign Relations committee. In a few years since hes taken the lead in promoting the approach to conflicts abroad. As the rankling member on the u. S. Foreign relations committee, subcommittee on the years, central asia and counterterrorism, senator murphy was one of the senates most eloquent and informed advocates for the iran agreement. During his robust speech, senator murphy invoked israels negotiations with the palestinia palestinians. He quoted the enduring assertion, peace is never easy but history is almost always judges worthwhile. A yea
And marked a diplomatic achievements in a generation, successfully blocking iran from developing a Nuclear Weapon through diplomatic, not military means. We owe it largely to the leadership of leg slislators li chris murphy who im privilegeed to introduce today. Senator murphy had been at the connecticut politics for decades before his election to the United States senate in 2012. The election brought him to national e tension and seat on the Foreign Relations committee. In a few years since hes taken the lead in promoting the approach to conflicts abroad. As the rankling member on the u. S. Foreign relations committee, subcommittee on the years, central asia and counterterrorism, senator murphy was one of the senates most eloquent and informed advocates for the iran agreement. During his robust speech, senator murphy invoked israels negotiations with the palestinia palestinians. He quoted the enduring assertion, peace is never easy but history is almost always judges worthwhile. A yea