he was put on trial back then and at the time the city, in the city was the author herman melville come and he followed that while quite a bit. he was interested in madness evil mental illness so he followed that, what was happening to pomeroy. and the physician oliver wendell holmes, he liked to follow it as well. in his mind pomeroy shouldn't be, he didn't have to be placed in jail or killed. he needed to be studied. he figured he wasn't the only child who was doing these things. he was the only one that people have actually heard of so it would've been a very good idea to just study them and figure out if you could learn something from him but people did really agree with him and the jury didn't either because as soon as the trial was done, he was sentenced to die. he was sentenced to hang. at the time the governor was the only one who could sign, even though the jury had decided that, the governor had to sign a warrant of execution, and he refused to do that. the governor didn't want the state to be sort of known around the country as a state would execute a 14 year old boy. he felt

herman melville's "moby dick" enshrined in literary history and later on the silver screen. and this year the chris helms worth flick "heart the sea." a movie based on the true story of a ship rammed by a sperm whale. it sank and few of its crew survived. and it's still happening. these fishermen aboard this chilean fishing vessel at first amused, then alarmed as a sperm whale rams their boat. but fred and fabrice believe not only are these animals gentle giants but they have an advanced language they are using, get this, to try to communicate with us. >> do you think you'll be able to communicate back? >> cracking the code of a sperm whale would be a dream. >> reporter: we flew from miami to antigua to the caribbean island of guadalupe to join them. driving through lush mountain rain forests to this tiny harbor. our initiation into the challenges of whale research starting early. >> this is the way you earn your breakfast. >> reporter: rowing through rain in a little sail boat operated by a curmudgeonly captain, think of him as captain ahab. fabrice fabrice's station, that

herman melville once wrote who looks at lee must think of washington. hiding the fought with deepest meaning. i think we have had for too long. i hope you will be about it and i hope you will come to washington i am thankful to you all for coming and i will be happy to answer your questions. thank you. [applause] >> there is a story after the war in a church, a black man comes forward, you know the story. myself i don't believe it but i would like utah comment on it because it is told in several ways as very factual. >> the story is robert e. lee is in that church, there's a black man praying and no one knows what to do because robert e. lee goes up and kneels beside him. that is a story that has been told by many people. the truth is we don't know. was told many years after the event. is difficult to evaluate the accuracy of the story. i had seen a recent article of people debating it. i can answer the question. is there some evidence something like that happened? what robert e. lee's motive for doing it, that is something we can't answer. is possible

herman melville once wrote: who looks at lee must think of washington so deep with grievance meaning, it is fraught. why i think we've hidden the fraught for too long. i hope you'll read about it in my book, and i hope you'll come to washington and see some of the places i've described. and i'm so thanking to you all for coming and i'd be happy to answer your questions. thank you. [applause] yes. >> there's a story after the war in a church a black man comes forward -- you know the story. myself, i don't believe it. but i'd like you to comment on it because it is told in several ways to be very factual. could you comment? >> sure. so the story is that robert e. lee is in a church, and there is a black man praying. and robert e. lee -- and no one knows what to do because it's -- and robert e. lee goes up, and he kneels beside him. and that's a story that's been told by many people. and the truth is, we don't know. it was told many years after the event, so it's very difficult to evaluate the act rahs is city of the story. -- accuracy of the story. i've just actually seen a recent artic

aquÍ tenemos todo para hacer el reto de melville en new york. reportera: comenzÓ con una visita donde marÍa las recibiÓ con mucho entusiasmo. marÍa: nos hicieron preguntas sumamente importantes como quÉ tengo que estudiarsi quiero hacer esto. >> yo creo que el maquillaje hace un complemento al pelo. el maquillaje es lo mÁs importante. no creo que tenga el maquillaje completo. sin el maquillaje no saldrÍa. >> a todos se les asignÓ un maquillaje especÍfico. tuvieron que elegir el atuendo y accesorios acordes. >> esto te da la oportunidad de ser creativos y puedes jugar con las cosas, con las ocurrencias, con lo que nos traen. >> por eso nos encanta trabajar con mary lynn. >> dos ambicionaban con ganar el reto porque era mÁs bastante ambicioso. >> ay muchÍsimas cosas! invirtiendo en un proyecto que tengo para niÑos. >> una vez vistas las muchachas fueron llevadas a una pasarela donde modelaron. los jueces debÍan decidir quiÉn fue la que mejor comunicÓ su estilo y anoche, por fin se conociÓ elfinal. >> nunca pensÉ que iba a llegar a

herman melville a bureaucrat noted in 1839 when he on served quote, the greater part of our cotton is raised by slaves and manchester and liver pol's on lens is as owing to the toil and suffering of the anything agree as if they had ask -- fabricated their steam engines. nearly all cotton arriving in european cotton ports until the year 1861 was grown by slaves and without the unpaid labor of enslaved africans the vast expansion of european cotton production, as well that's domination of the global cotton trade, and thus the very emergence of the industrial capitalism, would have been very difficult to envision. empire off cotton embraces a global perspective and also argues the history of cotton capitalism can only be flood from this particular perspective. and i just want to give you one example to illustrate the analytical possibilities of such a global perspective and how it shifts our thinking about core issues in history. for most -- the question is how the united states came to become the world's most important cotton growing power. the question that most historians of the unit