american history tv is only on c-span3. >> up next on american history the centennial of u.s. entry into world war i approaches. over,"ent "america goes a silent film documenting the united states experience in world war i. we provide scholars to provide context and commentary throughout the film, made by the u.s. army signal corps. "america goes over," is one of many silent world war i films that the national archives has restored. this is about one hour. susan: welcome to american history tv, c-span history network. let me introduce mitchell yockelson and allison finkelstein. as people actually see this film, how are these films made at the time and who saw them? mitchell: in the case of the film, it was done by the united states government. it was a compilation of mostly u.s. army signal corps footage by cameramen overseas. the idea was more propaganda to promote what america did, which was help bring the war to a close on the allies' side. susan: it was released after the war was over. how was the propaganda intended by the government at that point in time? allison: this f

he was part of the american 93rd african-american division. they are on the bottom to the right with a french helmet on it. wo badges up, we have the 92nd battalion soldiers along them. >> and then i noticed along here there is, at the very bottom, the 27th division in the middle. the have the star of orion. they were engaged in another direction in the somme area. they were part of an offensive going on at the same time as the muse argonne, attacking the canal. >> yes exactly. , the muse argonne is what we know of the american part of the big offensive. it is from the all the allied troops. this is a key point. for the first time in a war, we have a combined attack of the british, the french, and the americans altogether. muse argonne for most of the americans, but some american divisions were fighting under french or british command and , that was the case for the 27th, for example. and the battle started on the same day almost for everybody. 26 of september for the americans here. september 26 for the french for army and september 27 for ,

and by educating americans and europeans alike about the deeds , the accomplishments of american armed forces in providing the blessings of freedom to generations yet unborn. during this centennial period, we have reaffirmed our mission , to honor the 4.7 million and americans that served in uniform during the great war. a war that began the alliance with europe that has continued for the past century. as part of our commemoration, today we are gathered here at suresnes american cemetery. this was the first of our overseas american cemeteries. 116,000 americans gave their lives in the great war to make the world safe for democracy. we stand in this cemetery today and honor the memory of 2515 of these men and women who are buried here or listed on the walls as missing. along with 24 unknown american soldiers of world war ii. in france and all along the western front, american troops proved decisive in the allied victory. american soldiers fought side-by-side with their wartime allies, helping to stop the final enemy offensive and turn the tide of battle. and finally, to end the war. it

so what, almost 00,000 african-americans served in the american civil war? what dills that accomplish? the 13th, 1479 and 159 amendment and the army reorganization act of 1856 and the army reorganization act of 1856, i won't go into detail. we may talk about that during the q&a but in every section in this gallery there is an educational piece. it's not just to come and look at images and artifacts. as my colleagues here have said, it is to educate. and so if we continue on. i'll talk about this section really quick because this is the 100th anniversary of world war i and again, my colleague that was sitting next to me said that ha people told him he did not belong and he learned about the muskogee airmen. before the must have been gee airmen there were these gentlemen and women in world war i so in the gallery, we have this world war i section. it has a mock-up where we have about 16 artifacts and 15 images that tell the story of african-american participation in world war i and about 13 of those artifacts have direct provenance to african-americans. and th

americans relationship with native americans. and we do this through the prism of the national paradox. hat's very familiar to americans. the paradox is american indians constitute 1% to 2% of the u.s. population, yet everywhere you look you see imagery of american indians. it's also found on state and county seals. it is found in u.s. military insignia. it's found in motel and storefront signage, on architectural elements of buildings and bridges. it's found on people's tattoos. it's everywhere you look in american life. whether someone native american or descends from people who came over on the may flower or indeed a recent immigrant, one recognizes this imagery as part and parcel of american life. we wanted to begin our exhibit by exploring this phenomenon which is at once familiar yet very striking and here's what's key about it. it's a phenomenon that is unique to the united states. there is no other country in the world that is so fixated with one portion of its population that it is constantly creating images of those peo

african-american journalist. you mentioned the unpredictability of what international interactions might come bus into a future crisis for the whole world in reference to first world war and the atmosphere the major wars in the past. russia just recently hosted the taliban, afghanistan was pivotal in the cold war, fall effect, afghans like to take credit for bringing down the soviet union. right now in the midst of this atmosphere in the trump era american foreign diplomacy still is undefined for internal and external audiences. i often wonder like many other nations where they should look to in terms of this evolving new world order? what could a country like afghanistan look towards? what kind of commitment can it expect from united states and its western allies. thank you. >>> we are back to both of you then we will go around again. >> i'm a revisionist i just follow the revisionist trend on lodge to say historical fears, isolation is -- aust isolationism was written by. they were in fact willing to uphold the

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the war radially altered american politics, the american military, the way americans think and talk about war. its cultural political and rhetorical ramifications are enormous. i wonder if we don't focus on these to the detriment to ramifications about the nature of american military power, its limits and how american military power shapes strategic references in the 21st send treat. we have to grapple with these questions. until we do, i think the specter of vietnam, the ghost of vietnam lingers and we will continue to operate in the realm of mythology rather than history. [ applause ] >> well, thank you, panelists, for a very thought provoking panel. we have got some time left for questions. i was going to start out, but jackie posed all the questions i had on my sheet here. so what we would like to do, ladies and gentlemen, again, please, if you have a question, wait for the microphone. hold the microphone close enough so you can be heard. i will try to recognize you so i can send it to the appropriate panel member. first question. sir? >> i have got a comment. i was assigned to mackvy

just as powerful, as american guilt, was the idea of american goodness. pride in american compassion, and generosity, spurred americans to take action. the idea that the united states was the benevolent leader of the free world also converged with religious ideas. the idea that the united states needed to be the good samaritan. finally, refugee advocates argued that americans should not admit refugees because americans are good, but because refugees are good for america. one senate resolution from 1975 declared, this period of influx of refugees in exile can serve to keep us humble, save can us from the sin of arrogance, pride, and self righteousness. now, i need to tell you, this support for refugees really was small, compared to the opposition to refugees. despite the lofty ideals and passionate advocacy of refugee supporters and reality, the majority of americans consistently opposed the resettlement of southeast asian refugees. and this by no means was a new development in american culture. public opinion polls indicate that consistently, throughout t

lies to americans. i came across examples of foreign intelligence agencies succeeding at that. >> we had a question in the back. >> you just answered his question. >> ok, who else do we have? >> anyone else? >> anybody else? >> if not, i think we will start to wrap it up. why don't you have one more shot at it. >> [laughter] , so much to work with here. you, wei would just ask have talked a lot about the soviets. were the other players? foreign players that played a big role? >> yeah, i do not want to be too [indiscernible] there were others. and 1941, which was the time, i said at the beginning, the vast majority of american reporters were not involved in espionage, and that is true, but there was a time when the press club bar was a little bit like roots cafe in casablanca. people working for british s,telligence, there were nazi american fascists, reporters working for imperial japan in the closet intelligence role. one of the operations that was here was a german new service called transocean news.

american ships later on. the british blockade of the people,a -- 500,000 younger people, older people especially, far more people than civilians died on the north atlantic from the sufferings. guest: when the british bomber command began to justify the strategic bombing of civilians in world war ii, the explicit justification for that was that it would kill far fewer people than the blockade had killed in 1919. host: john mosier is the author war,"e myth of the great and michael kazin is the author of "war against war." you said there were a lot of foreign language newspapers in the u.s. a lot of german immigrants who came to the u.s. in the 1880's and 1890's now involved in a battle with cousins and relatives and friends and former neighbors. guest: it was not easy. when the war begins, german-american associations, which were big, dr. by the money of the brewers association pushed very hard for a total embargo on all american commerce with anybody in the war, which was going to help the germans more than th

nor will any american-made tank get into action. the american expeditionary force will fight with french and british tanks and artillery, while the bugs are being worked out over here. it is late in the war before the arsenal of democracy is geared up for the business of war. its problems of manpower and material settled. one new source of industrial manpower is the negro. recruited by the south of the thousands, giving of jobs for the prospect of higher paid war work in the north. the migration, which will have a profound effect on the course of american life, is accompanied by conflict. race riots in northern communities like philadelphia, chicago, and east st. louis, illinois, where 37 -- where 37 americans are killed, white and negro. another kind of disease is loose in the land, suspicion, attacking all forms of dissent. vigilantes operating in the name of patriotism pursuing their own blacklist of enemies, draftdodgers and war bond slackers, pacifists who condemn war, labor groups that insist on voicing discontent, the foreign

i do not like to see americans suffer. i do not like to see americans fail. i don't like to see america fail. i don't like it when i go places and i realize we are not the leaders of the free world. that makes me crazy. i do not like it when i realize that americans don't have the opportunities to succeed the way they should and we aren't gonna succeed as a country the way we should. >> sounds to me like you're running. >> it may sound like that to you, but you want to know something? that's how i feel. that's not me running. that is what -- i went around this country and thought, "this is so wrong. we're on the wrong path. we're so much better than this." >> will you announce that you're running for president? >> if i figure it out, i certainly will. >> why don't you do it right now? >> [ laughs ] i'm worried it would help your ratings too much. >> this is public television. don't you want to help the country? >> [ laughs ] but i'm telling you -- i look around and i say, we have every advantage and every capability to make the 21st century another american c

particularly african americans. so you get an idea of what parts of town were populated by african americans which can tell us a lot. being concentrated in specific parts of town meant that other parts of town, other businesses, schools, were cut off from you. it meant that transportation may not exist there, there may be businesses that aren't located in those neighborhoods. and so we can get a better idea by looking at this map and how difficult it can be, could be for african americans to be concentrated in specific parts of town. the other thing that's interesting as well, yes there are heavy concentrations of african american in specific places. but you also see that there are african americans spread out through the the city. a lot of african americans are going to be domestics or what we would call yard men who work outside. and so they're living in close proximity to the white people that they work for. so i pulled this item it's a print from harper's weekly in the late 1860s. and it shows memphis it shows t

the united states proudly honored an american hero who forever changed the landscape of american sports. [applause] e will advice aaron presley. elvis presley defined american culture to billions of adoring fans around the world. the king of rock 'n roll, elvis fueled gospel, country, and rythand blues to create a sound all his own, selling more than a billion records. he also served nearly two years in the united states army, humbly accepting the call to serve, despite his fame. he starred in 31 films, drew record breaking audiences to his shows, sent television ratings soaring -- soaring and earned grammy award nominations. he ultimately won three grammy awards for his gospel music. decades after his passing, he remains an enduring and beloved american icon. the united states is proud to honor this american legend. [applause] president trump: i just want to thank everybody. these are outstanding individuals. and we are so proud to have them represent us sfor many years and it's a great honor to have everybody with us. on behalf of the first lady, melania, myself, thank you all for bei

fromare more at risk americans living around them than americans are from them. in case of conflict what you should do is protect the japanese. of course roosevelt and take action to that intelligence. once the war started, there were hundreds of different things carter himself did. the most spectacular one was he nazi, who is in an internment camp, set him up in a decrepit mansion with an alcoholic cook and a servant and a guard. and have him work on counterintelligence activities. the one roosevelt enjoyed the -- sexs a book about life. carter,resting thing is , he had as many as 20 operatives working for him. and went from the press here all the time. nobody thought he did anything wrong. fast forward. another operation i wanted to talk about was british intelligence. -- thing i was really it's really surprised to find out was the extents of british intelligence in 1941. it was a massive operation with thousands of thousands of people in canada and south america. the whole goal of it was to get the united states into the war. first providing assistance to brit

more than any other american regiment. they suffered 1500 casualties, more than any unit in the american force. their fighting was so ferocious that the kaiser himself gave the nickname "the harlem hellfighters." over 100 soldiers from 369 were -- ded the quality care guerre and no regiment received more recommendations and honors than it did. at the marne, a soldier who was a barber in peace time volunteered as a messenger to deliver an important order to another unit. just as he reached his destination, he was killed in a hail of german fire. a diary later found on his bloodstained blouse contained this passage. "america must win the war. therefore, i will work and save and sacrifice, i will endure, as -- i will fight cheerfully and do my utmost as if the whole issue of the struggle depended on me alone. a marine who had already earned two medals of honor, decided at the age of 44 that the corps had not had enough of him. he volunteered for france and he won three more combat medals. he crawled out under heavy enemy fire

that american history. of course we should know american history more than world history, although i'm not sure a lot of people really understand american history. you just expect other people to know. i don't know anything about the structure of parliament. this is something i feel like i am expected to know. part of the reason we want an informed citizenry is for voting and electing people into office. his notike understanding we have to have is we are deciding what to do what to do with this country, we should know that country's history. just our own history. prof. van engen: right. you get a lot of articles about our misinformation, our lack of knowledge in the middle east, interventions that have been made in the middle east. understanding the kind of are there, and the various expectations they have. thinking through what you are saying, one of the ways to think about civics -- one thing we could say, everyone should understand american civics, american government. how it works and so forth. you can

consequence of this american informal deception is a classical american strat the job to touring and possibly this month in russia and this is how it basically brings us to the point where we differ them thinks about one another not interact and directly but eventually thinking. about one about her do you see just recently that the key feature of our time as far as foreign policy is concerned is uncertainty and tolerance to uncertainty how you process it how you live with it is a key feature of emotional stability the lack of a. if these according to freud leads to neurosis i wonder if we if this is where we are at the neurotic stage or has it gone further have to let's say paranoia well we . don't know it's we have these uncertain too which is structural and the rookie a lot of sort of everybody playing the game but we also have this misplaced certainty certainty about something that we actually know very little but we take for granted what you know what you know i'm not going to leave believes that russia has a malign idea to elect american president while it and in the same fashio

african-americans. >> welcome to memphis sound in 1819 along the banks of the mississippi, the southwestern tennessee city of about 650,000 plays a central role for the civil rights movement and its musical history provides a window into the culture of the country. over the next 90 minutes with help of our comcast cable partners we will learn about the cities history to its local authors. we begin with author who shares the story of the meredith march. >> the meredith march begins here, the last great march of the civil rights, the last time you see the civil rights come together in this, and ever, great for march that attracts national attention, the becomes a lobbying tool for political change, so in that way it is an end. it's the end of an era that we can trace the birmingham and some of the march on washington of the iconic events t but the march is the beginning. it introduces the slogan of black power to the nation. it ignites the controversy in the national media over that slogan but also become

the american character should be able to improvise. by that i mean when you look at george washington and the dark days of december 17, '77 at valley forge, the ability to improvise, to be almost a guerrilla fighter, to live off the land, to be able to do what we need to do to get the job done. >> from the very beginning that is what an american is. minority groups in certain religious groups were not and women were not really considered citizens. that changes over time. overtime more and more people are brought into the american family. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> a senate hearing on the world bank looked at the role these institutions play in us foreign policy and relations with china. indiana senator todd young chairs the foreign relations subcommittee on developers, economic and environmental policy, this is 2 hours. >> good afternoon. this hearing of the senate foreign relations subcommittee on multilateral internationa

that was the end of it until we also found out that the american museum of the smithsonian american museum of history has a collection of these. they don't have the entire collection but they have a nice size collection of artwork. many of us trundled out to washington, d.c. to the museum where the curators were very kind and knowledgeable to show us many pieces of the original artwork. it was a stunning. by the time we got back, some of us wanted to look at the photographs and i would write about it. that is how we started out. it ended up that one of the people working very closely with me had many volunteers that had other things to work on. and he kind of laughed in the middle of the project. then it was me. that is okay. i was very interested and except for one little stumble, carried on very well. the symbol was, i had actually so much material to work with for this one artist. because of the way i went about it, it took me a long, long time to get through it. by the time i finished in the article -- and the article was posted i was waiting for a response from the public saying, yes,

great american built. to be honest with you we really don't know where the pilgrimage goes from here i believe we're on the precipice of a whole new precipice and that means that. the impossible has now become possible to cairo moment here in america kyra us is latin of course for a moment in time when things are no longer in st when you bring the power of stevie beat and max kaiser together. to. no. i am not a terrorist i am not at that or this i am not. but. these days no matter where you are in the world the chances are you're being watched. in the deaths of innocent people you can strike any anywhere like it's over ten thousand meets him yet you probably won't have the slightest idea of your being in the box and if you won't see it coming. what. would you have seen in post nine eleven scenario that in case of focused on cia you had been given a license to kill the villages their villages their houses their mud houses the bombing them sometimes they claim that they've killed a terrorist and then you see

american judge, even though a quarter of the people are african american. i don't care what the ideology is here. and then, adding insult to injury, putting on the bench someone who would disenfranchise people, particularly people of color. it's a disgrace. this morning i called stacey abrams and andrew gillum, both of whom were hurt by attempts to limit voting rights, and they issued the following statement together. quote, when it comes to the trifecta of voter disenchan friesment, voter suppression, racial gerrymandering and restriction of voting rights, thomas farr sadly is one of the most experienced lawyers in the country. farr's record of hostility for civil rights disqualifies him-to-him for a lifetime appointment to h. that will allow him to codify his ideology into law. i couldn't agree more. i urge my republican colleagues to see the better part of reason, to let, as abraham lincoln said -- we all know what it did -- let the better angels of their nature appeal to them, not just the political machine that says this guy helped us get elected, even

it looked like part of the american second nature. but in fact it wasn't yet part of the second nature, and adopting, enforcing, and upholding the first universal military draft required a remarkable departure from the nation's military and political tradition. but now to the point that was frequently made by the opponents of the law, who were not so quick to shrug their shoulders when the registrants came by. by the end of the war, it would bring courtroom battles, shootouts in the ozark mountains, and afistfight in the cloakroom of the united states senate. there was a kaiser hung in effigy and a mang hanged in a noose. through it all and through all of that controversy, the registration forms continue to pour into selective service headquarters. to the forms, we ought to pay a little bit more attention. the reporter again said to consider themselves outside of the organized society, and the neighborhood men was compelled to locate themselves and asked themselves many questions that had not concern themselves before. who they was, w

and in the 19 twenties and to negotiate and american officials travel to britain. this is all done by private entities to get to london to have those negotiations with an american bar association in london. . >> and to talk about the norm is that they did not get along and how unusual that is for us to be as tightly as we were. you could make the case because of russia but internal european politics when germany was reunifying the george w. bush administration thought this was a vital interest to work out correctly and they were heavily involved or about what was happening but americans felt they had to shepherd that along still going through the divorce with teeten it is a disaster in a coherent europe and we did almost nothing to prevent it you don't think it is a disaster. >> that is so late in the day. you couldn't say by the way the vote against teeten maybe that is the same way as the german unification would happen maybe that is the most normal activity in the history of the world. however the way the divorce played out we have not been playing that game in

american citizens. it took another 38 years for native americans to be fully enfranchised. in 1962, the new mexico state supreme court struck down the last laws preventing native americans from exercising their rights. three years later in 1965, the voting rights act included native americans in class of minorities historically prevented from voting. just last year, north dakota implemented a new voter id law. your id needs to show your name, date of birth and residential address. in north dakota and other rural areas especially on native american reservations many people don't have residential addresses. instead they use post office boxes. you're familiar with that. the supreme court declined to hear the case last month. tribal officials have been working to assign addresses to these american citizens and get them new ids to exercise their right to vote four days from now. >> this is very confusing because a lot of those native americans being denied to vote were able to vote under the law during the p

american soldiers. this culture of reconciliation, whether it is playing out in politics or economics or popular culture helped convince americans on both sides of the mason-dixon line that the horrors of war were behind them. the peoples of reconstruction are behind them. 1890's,e in the 1880's, there is a generational shift going on. veterans are not only aging. the 1890's is the high point of veterans on both sides in the u.s. congress. there is the notion you want to sell things throughout the country. sally pickett is very savvy about this when she writes her account. she wants to sell accounts to northerners and southerners. she paints this reconciliation in picture. the united states is trying to

officer liked to tell american -- ask american reporters to have lunch with him. just to learn something about american society and the fbi really wanted to know what they were talking about. so what he would do, this fbi agent, he would call the --sident's of the national the president of the national press club up and he would say we know that this guy is going to meet for lunch with a certain reporter and he would say -- is this guy ok? and the president of the club would say don't mess with him or , you know what? he is an marine. he is going to be fine, and the president of the club would call the reporter up and say, you know, the fbi would really like it if you would volunteer to cooperate with them and most of the time the reporter would call this agent up and volunteer. and then they were off and running. and so, other fbi agents found out about this and they did the same thing. so they used this guy. they did it with two different presidents to help them recruit american reporters as sources. that raises the question of what should be the proper relation

american past. they were made by vanishing people. too many outsiders, native incompatible with modernity. baskets, partner, pipes and other handmade items that indians typical in deemed practical became decorative items. cherokee arts and crafts, especially baskets, found a receptive audience in the early 20th century. on 1911, there were at least four merchants selling items in more than 40 cherokee supplement to their income by weaving baskets and pottery to sell to outsiders. in order to better take advantage of the increasing popularity in native american culture, turkey leaders work federal officials to establish a local fall event. the first cherokee indian fare opened on october 13, 1914. in attendance exceeded expectations. thousands of tourists from across the region flooded the three day event. the fair was simultaneously and somewhat paradoxically, a venue for promoting traditional arts and crafts as commerce and a method for increasing turkey integration into broader american society. s

these are americans who volunteered, wealthy americans. some had their own private airplanes in the go to fight in a squadron dedicated to the french. they are a public relations dream on both sides of the atlantic ocean. the french love them and the americans love them. theodore roosevelt wrote articles about them for collier's magazine. they were given a blank check to live in exotic and rich lifestyle. i have to suspect this is where fighter pilot culture comes from. the americans couldn't discipline them in the french had no incentive to do so. as long as they were flying well represented this link between the u.s. and france. there are others. the great football player for harwich. there were other americans who served. there was a canadian researcher who estimates 80,000 members of the canadian army in world war i were born in the united states. the easiest way to join the british army was to walk across the border into canada and join. that is an unbelievably high number. researchers have done similars studies. these are not foreign

great american pilgrimage to be the great american revolutionary declaration of. war against all the conflicts the lists the kleptocracy the cactus stocker sea. yeah they catch a stocker sea ruled by the least qualified now we can talk about stuff that's not in the show right when we set out to do the great american pilgrimage we made a plan it turns out that the plan really just couldn't be done down in venice was we're at the cows in coffee shop and we're meeting this holocaust survivor and we're getting ready to have an interview with him and we set it all up it's really wonderful to meet you take this and this one here with your heart ok. let's meet in a sixty if we listen to knowledge ninety eight. that my bed yet out. and then this little children's kind of sing song. play dade county yoga session broke out which i guess is quite normal here on the west coast if you stay right here in hollywood i'm still going. to have any of the footage of me spilling the coffee on i'm. awkward to see there were some hiccups during the great american pilgrimage it's never k

you asto welcome each of we pay tribute and celebrate the african-american men and women, african-americans, but those who have protected our interests at home and abroad. particularly we want to honor and recognize those who have served in and supported the vietnam war. veterans, i want to say welcome home and thank you for your service. [applause] i want to thank you for all that you've done to pave the way for veterans and service members, many like myself who followed after you. home because many of you did not receive a warm welcome you deserved upon your initial return from southeast asia. protestsou or met with and harsh words. cases, you were told to get out of your uniform as quickly as possible to avoid confrontation. this was a wretched time in our history. forward, and, step answered the call of our nation and protected her and our constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic. honor, this with duty, commitment, dedication, and selfless service. i want to thank those fallen comrades and their families. i thank him for their service and sacrifice. i want to thank eac

american history tv start each night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> next on lectures in history, sean mcmeekin talks about how the united states became involved in world war i, he describes the goals of many of the countries involved, and the terms of the treaty of versailles. which eventually helped end the war, he also reviews president woodrow wilson's role in crafting the treaty, and its public perception in the u.s. >> hello again everyone, thank you for coming, particularly on such a cold february day. i believe that we

steve: do we educate americans enough on the role of native americans? their influence and impact on our history? donald: i think we need to educate our public and everyone more about american indians because people get so busy in their lives that they really -- they don't see american indians at all. they see in a very narrow way. american indians are there and we have always been here. is there organizations and conferences like this one that we see that presence. this association has more sessions on american indians than other history organizations. steve: do you have any thoughts on how native americans are characterized of the big screen? notably the western movies with john wayne and others. that that damage have americans generally view native americans? donald: indeed. american indians have been portray by hollywood, and it is kind of a stereotyped image of american indians. scholars like myself and people who study american indians for accuracy, we try to correct hat. it is an uphill battle trying to correct those images. i have counted the ste

the american people. >> what else? new -- there is a light at the end of the tunnel and we can use the end of what we are trying to encompass. >> how does this play in peoria if you are watching the nightly news and westmoreland says this, what are you thinking? >> regarding political time -- you tell everyone i know it's not the greatest but we are almost done. we are almost a publishing what we need to. that buys you time for resources and tolerance of the war. >> okay. >> always with a negative way. >> i feel like it will be a similar response to how we felt when we found out osama -- osama bin laden was killed. without we could go home but that was not the case. >> what about the other guy? what is the assessment of north vietnam? how are they doing? >> they are taking losses. they are not giving up. they don't think they are defeated. >> okay, what is your assessment on the scale of wins and laws, where are they? >> they need to have something else to an initiative. >> so when it comes to a stalemate is and that w

in 2018, 64 percent of americans tell nbc pulling that racism is a major problem in american life. 77 percent of african americans tell pollsters they have a negative view of race relations that is a sharp rise by the way and in 2014 it was only 44 percent that was previously the high. we went from 44 percent in 201477 percent today. why are people so troubled about race relations? at this moment? how does a country that make so much progress recently fall into such a deep racial division? all of you in this room i think you know, the answer was the rise of donald trump. he is the one who built his political career by questioning of the first black president was even an american citizen calling the birther movement by stating that his campaign called mexicans criminals and rapist and attacked an american judge, judge, mexican parents cannot deliver justice because of his mexican heritage. the speaker of the house paul ryan said that was an explicit example of racism. and trump of course, recommended that all muslims be temporarily banned from entering the countr country. i don't have

one american soldier to choose one coffin theg the four to become new -- the american unknown soldier. one was elected. sent back to the u.s.a. that's the one that is buried in arlington. the three others that were there on that ceremony and not elected are these three soldiers, buried meuse-argonne. the closest cemetery was then the meuse-argonne and it is the main american cemetery for the first world war, now buried here. >> watch the entire tour of the american cemetery sunday at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. eastern, here on american history t.v. all weekend, every weekend, on c-span 3. >> this sunday, american history centennial of the end of world war i. washingtonve with journal taking viewer calls on the final offensive of the war, its legacy. guests are john mozier, author, and michael cassen, author. att's sunday, veterans day, 7:30 a.m. eastern. year marks the centennial of u.s. participation in world war i. next, on american artifacts, in the first of a two-part program, visit the library of congress to learn about an exhibit on the great war. this is about 45 minutes. reft.name is

americans are being paid at the 2017 level. i know of only one veteran reported to us by our friends at the american legion forced to move into his parents house with thef the problem checks. no one has left school. we have had incredible cooperation. notone thing we have done problem oftion, the -- profit colleges, those colleges that have failed, we are restoring in this system all of the benefits veterans lost when those particular institutions went under. that is the only fair and right thing to do. i had a meeting, i hope it is ready. early next year. the checks will still continue to go out. any veteran who is not getting the check. or threatened with eviction. or there is some college upset, even though i have not heard that. i have talked to a lot of them. mississippi and alaska. they have had no problems. one of those things we have to fix. i will say since i mentioned my predecessor, it did tell the congress during his hearing on 50-year-oldwith a system. it was probably going to be a problem with implementing it. >>

americans the served in the war. about 4,800,000 americans were in uniform by the end of the war in june 1919. >> to illustrate the variety of insignia worn on the american uniforms has moved over to the 1917 u.s. service codes worn by the majority of the soldiers in the army during the war. one of the insignias that i'm standing by is the standing buffalo. this was very important and this was one by the african- american soldiers of the 92nd division there were two african- american divisions in they were. 92nd and 93rd and both were segregated from the rest of the army. most of the soldiers enlisted, were african-americans and most of the officers were caucasian even though they fought alongside the compatriots in the war and fought along with the french during the war, they were segregated and were not treated very well throughout the course of the war. as we progress through the museum into the rest of the american section, we are going to look at a special exhibition dealing with american women service in the wa

mitchell: fired by the americans? guillame: fired by the americans if it's a 75. later on i will explain -- mitchell: do we need to market somehow? guillame: i will explain the location. alex plane exactly where it is. -- i will explain exactly where it is. the erosion because of the rain, it fell down here. that's why it's now inside the trench. it's probably been buried for 100 years. several -- toave get the ground clean again. we had heavy rain on the last day. shelle a lot of piece of appearing. you can see it because it's quite thick, quite heavy. some like this one is very sharp. the idea is to explode into to give very bad wounded to the soldiers. there, small one right which is another one. this is another one. the off to try to find sided color from the iron. battles.about the war here lasted for four years. we have battles going on every day, so the remains are everywhere. in the church. neuvilly was the last village before heading to the french line. it was used by the french and later on the americans. has a very famous picture that was taken here. >>

the average american had 3.2 friends. the average american today has 1.8 friends. i'm defining this again in an aristotelian sense, somebody who loves you, not a transactional relationship. you see them happy and you become happy, you don't choose to be, but you love them. when my kids hurt, i don't choose to hurt. . just hurt it is a part of me, i love them. a great friendship is like that. having a friendship in america in the last 27 years. on the level of work, we have rapidly declining average duration at a firm. 1970's, average duration at a firm for the primary breadwinner was two point five decades. average duration at a firm today for an american is 4.2 years and getting shorter. is much less likely you have lifelong coworkers. males in particular are terrible at building new friendships after age 25. if you don't have the built-in chance to get coworkers who you work next to on the assembly line for a decade after decade, it is incredibly unlikely that males replace relationships after 30, 35, 45. as we have more mobility in the economy, not for everybody

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african american, hispanic american, and asian american unemployment have all reached the lowest levels in the history of our country. and in case you haven't noticed, in the great state of indiana, we are putting our steel workers back to work at a level that nobody thought possible. one of the great stories, one of the great stories -- you know, we taxed all of the steel dumping from other countries that don't exactly have us in mind. and we taxed them at 25%, and guess what, our steel industry is one of the hottest industries in the country right now. it's expanding like crazy. and right here in indiana, steel dynamics has just announced a $75 million investment in columbia city and a $400 million investment in terre haute. you know that, right? a lot of money. and just three months ago, united states steel announced a $750 million investment in a place called gary, indiana. the fact is, after years of rebuilding other countries, we are finally rebuilding our country. it's about time. it's about time. [crowd chanting "u.s.a."] president trump: republicans passed a massive tax cut for