it specifies that athletes are not permitted to accept anything of value really related to their status as an athlete. that means that you know a fan or a booster, a would-be agent, a coach, is not permitted to give you anything of value beyond what is specified in the ncaa constitution. how it forces good people to do bad things or consider doing bad things. the pressures are just so enormous in the athletic program. people that are sports fans or like to be helpful will be enticed to do shady things from time to time. sometimes it morphs into full-scale fraud. it is a system that needs repair. that is the dominant message we would like people to take away from the book. i am in chapel hill and hillsboro. my district is best known has as a diverse and growing and by that we not only refer to shedding some of the negative aspects of our history, but really charting a new course. the research triangle story is pretty principl
exploring the american story. book tv, american history tv, we travel to amarillo texas. we ll experience in the city of about 200,000 starting with an the largest canyon. and then we will learn about kansas city s developments on amarillo. and then step in a specially made rail card used to move nuclear material around the united states. later a trip to the panhandle plains. we start at the canyon state park. the experience today is a lot like it has been. even today it is quite a sharking experience. the fact that i get to come see this every day sometimes i have to take in. the canyon has been forming for about a million years or so. it runs from here over to silverton. you can make a good case that it is at least 80 miles in length itself. it is the second largest canyon in the united states. it s not a single canyon. there are many that branch off to the sides. we re standing in an area now where we can see three canyons from where we re at right now. it s much big
bryan-college station, texas. the history of the neighboring cities sitting within three hours of houston, san antonio, and dallas. in about five minutes, we take you inside the george h.w. bush presidential library and museum for our first ever look at newly discovered film footage of george and barbara bush on their honeymoon. following that, the final resting place of the 41st president and the first lady on the grounds of the library. in about 20 minutes, the history of the area as we travel to the brass yoes valley museum of history and later a trip to the campus of texas a&m university for the story of a core of cadets, the student military organization dating to 1876. we begin our special feature with the mayors of bryan and college station as they talk about the history and special relationship between the two cities. one of the wonder fingers about bryan-college station, you have two cities, one community. the university started in the 1870s. the city of bryan star
me it is my belief that the only thing that we have to fear is fear itself. by the time franklin roosevelt gives his march 1933 inaugural speech, almost a quarter of the nation is unemployed. more than 5,000 banks have failed and drought is persisting in key agricultural areas of the country. people must have faith. coming up in the next hour, stories from the great depression as we take you to places like toledo and then in 1931 five of the six largest banks all failed at the same time which made it the largest banking failure of the great depression. to successful infrastructure of the times still impacting us today. and to one ending in tragedy. we ll talk you to st. paul with gangsters and the corrupt police force strike a bargain. we ll explore the impact of new deal programs like the conservation corp as we go just outside of amarillo, texas. we wouldn t have a park here if it wasn t for the conservation corp. and we ll hear from artists who tell tales. we
parts of the spirits of our ancestors festival. we spoke with organizer joycelynn davis. the spirit of our ancestors festival is a day to set aside to commemorate the descendents of the clotilda. various festivals that started back in the 1980 s from the original founders of the descendents association, and i guess it stopped for a while, so i decided to start it up again. and i was reading the book, the flagship clotilda and the makers of africatown. that is how i came up with the title. i was looking for a title, but you know, a lot of things were not ringing a bell. when i was reading her book, i was like, spirit of our ancestors just jumped at me. you greeted everyone and there was a point where you had descendents speak. how did you come up with your program? well, growing up here in africatown and attending the missionary baptist church, there was a bust of cudjoe lewis in front of our church all of my life, and back in 2002, that bust was destroyed by some kids a