All persons having business before the Honorable Supreme Court of United States landmark cases, cspan special history series produced in cooperation with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759 we will hear arguments from number 18 quite often in many of her most famous decisions, are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate, very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Susan good evening and welcome to cspans history series, let marquesas. Tonight is number 10. You will hear about the 1962 tennessee reapportionment case. It was one that chief Justice Earl Warren called the most important of his tenure. This is the court that wrote brown versus board of education and we will learn wider the next 90 minutes. It began a re
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State. That did not happen. The division became permanent. There is no doubt whose idea it was originally. The reason this matters is the koreans see themselves as one people, one nation and one race. And would like to be reunified, especially the elder generation of koreans who still have family in the north, some of whom have not spoken in decades. This matters because in many ways koreans hold the United States responsible for that decision. There is a latent stream of antiamericanism running through Korean Society that does not always manifest itself, but could manifest itself in a strong way under the right circumstances. The perplexing thing about them seeing themselves as one nations they have two different governing systems. How would that rectify itself in their minds . If you look at the situation and the deprivation people have in north korea versus the south, how does that fit . It fits by looking backwards rather than looking at the present. The koreans like to claim they
American maritime history in newport, rhode island, it is one of the deepest natural in closed ports in the world. For that reason the United States navy chose it as one of its key anchorages during the prime of American Naval seapower in the early 20th century. Arguably the origins of the Naval War College began. The germans were ahead of the game, literally, in techniques of wargaming. During the wars of german unification, they came up with an idea called the general staff. The general staff was an organization that enabled all the different principalities to fall in line with their regiments under this centralized Organization Called the general staff. There was a guy named emory upton, a greater general. He said look at what the germans did with that general staff. He went over to germany and studied the german methods. He brought them back. Upton basically made the argument what we needed to do was create a federally regulated army. That idea ran against some of the traditional t
To be here this afternoon. Welcome to this panel, history and Public Policy center, sponsored by the National History center. Im nick mueller, president and ceo emeritus of the National World War Ii Museum in new orleans and before that enjoyed a that 32year career at the university of new orleans. I will say more about that after all the panelists are introduced. Were going to take a little bit of a different approach today. Rather than having each panelist stand up and talk about their respective centers and institutes, we are going to have a series of questions i will go over in just a moment and they will each respond in a few moments each. Well weave in the work their centers are doing in the course of their remarks. So im going to introduce very briefly each of the panelists. Perhaps you can raise your hand as i mention your name. For audiences here and i expect to have many more who are not affected by the weather watching us on cspan, so, thank you, cspan, for covering this pan