family has the satisfaction, that we gave it all we had. w and i think we provided some of the answers to the needs of our time. all day today american history tv is featuring america s first ladies. who do you think was our most conversation twitter, and foursqua foursquare. follow us all weekend every weekend and online at c-span.org/history. american history tv usually shown on the weekends on c-span 3 will continue this week in prime time. our focus on tuesday night is black history month. at 8:00 eastern with the ground breaking of the new smithsonian museum of african-american history and culture taking place wednesday on the national mall. the museum s founding director lonnie bunch takes us through the storage facility to see some of the artifacts that will be on display. at 8:30 the relationship between martin luther king jr. and his mentors, benjamin mace. at 10:00, to nashville, tennessee, the museum built on the cite where martin luther king jr. wass as is n
museum s founding director, lonni bunch, take us through the storage facility to see some of the artifacts that will be on display. at 8:30, the relationship between martin luther king jr. and his mentors, benjamin maze and howard thurman. at 10:00, to memphis, tennessee, as we tour the national civil rights museum, built on the site where martin luther king jr. was assassinated. and at 10:30 from waterbury, connecticut, professor william foster teaches a class on the history of the next word in american literature and culture, with a focus on uncle tom s cabin and mark twain s huckleberry finn. this is american history tv on c-span3. there s a new website for american history tv where you can find our schedules and preview our upcoming programs. watch featured video from our regular weekly series, as well as access our history tweets, history in the news, and social media from facebook, youtube, twitter, and foursquare. follow american history tv every weekend on c-s
both harriet don t even try it. harriet beecher stowe s uncle tom s cabin and we ll be talking about mark twain s huckleberry finn. there has been recent controversy, please excuse me, recent controversy talking about a publisher who is changing the n-word to. slave. slave and they re changing the engine word to indian because obviously a number of native americans are offended by that. this is not a controversy that has just started. this has been going on since day one. they came out in the 1860s and the idea is that since that point in time there s been a little bit of controversy. what we re going to do is start in the history because, as i said many times in class, you have to have a sense of history to understand literature. if you don t understand what the people were going through, what they were feeling, what motivated them to do what they did, you lose it when we talk about drama, poetry, and fiction. let s talk about this. it s from the new york times
this brick. police say the crooks are using bricks and stones to break through windows. there is also a wooded cut through that goes straight to her neighborhood. you never know what s back there, i guess. reporter: in one case we are told that a neighbor s that a home run s young son walked in on the burglars in the middle of the act. he was walking home and had just gotten home from school. we are told he is actually very shaken up from this whole experience. he did provide police a very vague description of the suspects. they are releasing two white men in their mid-20s taking off in a get away car that he believed was a tan or beige boxy vehicle. anita. all right. live from woodbridge. thank you. montgomery county police say a 68-year-old germantown woman was sexually assaulted today and it was the second time it happened to her in less than a year. this latest attack happened around 1:00 a.m. in the 20,300 block of beacon field terrace. that location is just ac