grossman, of the american historical association. >> good afternoon, thank you for inviting me. >> thank you for coming here for an important discussion about the visit concepts. passed, how it is studied, whose version of events gains ascendancy. it has always been a battlefield in our country. that is because origin stories matter. as much,, now as ever before in america. james, the h a, trying to influence this debate, now embroiling the nation, over what should be taught in history, and social studies classes. first, what are activists of concepts, and where did this controversy come from? >> and evasive concepts seem to be things that, some people, are objecting to that teaches, and that teachers are teaching, in the classrooms, as part of american history. it seems to be, that teaching the history of division, is, problematic, for some people. that is where this term, division concepts, are. if you teach students that america, was deeply, divided over slavery, over jim crow, over various things, over the course of our history, then, what's some people argue, is that these are divis

. >> we will go over one more tenet and move on to what the american historical association is doing about this. individuals by virtue of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin are responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of the same sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color or national origin, teachers are not allowed to teach that idea. >> this is where we get fuzzy and more interesting. it is impossible to deny that especially in certain parts of the country but more or less 2 different degrees everywhere in the united states but certainly more in some parts of the country than others that white americans did things that oppressed african-americans. that is a fact. we have documentation of lynching, we have documentation of legally mandated segregation. it wasn't black people who passed laws that forced black children to go to school in southern states funded at one tenth of the rate for students than white people so these are historical facts, this kind of discrimination, that was in essence racially structured. a teacher has to teach that in

i'm martin di caro, and today we're joined by james grossman of the american historical association. good to see you. >> thank you for having me. >> we're going to talk about vision concepts, the past, who studies. ascendancy has always been a battlefield in our country. that's because origin stories matter now more than ever before in america. james is trying to dismiss this debate about what should be taught in history and social studies classes. first, what are divisive concepts and where did this come from? >> divisive concepts seem to be things that some people are objecting to that teachers are teaching in their classrooms as part of american history. it seems to be that teaching the history of division is problematic for some people, and that's where this term divisive concepts are, that if you teach students that america was deeply divided over slavery, over jim crow, over various things over the course of our history, then what some people are arguing is these are divisive concepts that divide our country rather than these being the history of our country that we have to und

we are joined by james grossman of the american historical association. >> good afternoon. thank you for inviting me. >> excited to have you here for an important discussion about divisive concepts. the past, how it is studied, whose version of events gains ascendancy has been a battlefield because origin stories matter as much as ever before in america. james, the aha is trying to influence this debate, now roiling the nation over what should be taught in history and social studies classes. first, what are divisive concepts and where did this controversy come from? >> well, divisive concepts seem to be things that some people are objecting to that teachers are teaching in their classrooms as part of american history. it seems to be that teaching the history of division is problematic for some people, and that's where this term divisive concepts are, that if you teach students that america was deeply divided over slavery, over jim crow, over various things, over the course of our history, then what some people are arguing is these are divisive concepts. that divide our conc

historical review and spanish american review. she also co- curated the very provocative exhibition titled visionary freedom which cosponsored the little haiti cultural center in miami back in 2008. our second speaker with associate professor at the university joined in the department of english and humanities. she's also a faculty affiliate of the cuban research institute any former director. born in los angeles from cuban exile parents she was raised in miami. before joining she taught creative writing in the netherlands. she's worked as a journalist in the united states and abroad including a winning colonists for the miami herald. she's lived in new delhi, the symbol in cairo where she was a fulbright scholar. submaster fine arts in creative writing and a ba in english from florida international university she's published four books including cuba recently started to write the blog without further ado. >> thank you. thank you christina and everybody at books in prose. thank you for being here virtually. it would be wonderful t

an american historical association panel tries to answer that question. >> i'm jeffrey engel, the founding director for the center for

an american historical association panel explores why many americans hated thomas jefferson, a man like him, lyndon johnson and richard nixon. >> can we talk about what was happening in the 1920s and '30s as -- prominence -- [inaudible] big call themselves evangelicals but many of them were exactly the same from 1930s to the 1950s. what you do, you could see signs the bible might layout and also in the new testament, a a sers of events that would tell us -- [inaudible] some of them are kind of hard to track. [inaudible] but far more important and much more interesting to me, we also closely watch global events pick their innocence students of foreign affairs. they have laid out a number of expert -- in 1880s and 1890s that they were preaching and preaching and preaching in the 1910s, '20s, 30s to see some of these predictions fulfilled. one of the important rules with the rise of a new restored roman empire -- [inaudible] i revitalize rome. they also knew was hitler was doing. they read mein kampf in german before hitler came to power and it was believed another sign of the times would

. >> a brief for the american historical association says abortion was not legal before quickening in 26 out of 37 states at the time when the 14th amendment was adopted. is that correct? >> that is correct because some of the states had start evidence to discard the common law with a view a woman's role was wife and mother and why it's appropriate to do the historical analysis at a higher level of generality. >> can it be said the right to abortion is deeply rooted in the history and traditions of the american people? >> yes, it can. again founding women were able to end their pregnancy under the common law and this court in glux berg discussed casey as a decision based on history and tradition and note 19 called out and relied on roe's conclusion that at the time of the founding and well into the 1800s women had the ability to end a pregnancy. >> what was the principle source court relied on for roe historical analysis. who was the author of that article. >> i don't remember the author. i know the court spent many pages of the opinion doing a historical analysis and a brief on behal

an american historical association panel tries to answer that question. >> i'm jeffrey engel, the founding director for the center for presidential history at southern methodist university. you will know because you signed up for this webinar, we're here to talk about presidents and hatred. two contextual points that might be helpful from the start. i mentioned this to my daughter what i was doing. her first question was are you doing that because of president trump. i said i suspect that's why we wanted to do it in the first place, but we're not talking

. >> the brief for the american historical association says that abortion was not legal before a quickening in 26 out of 37 states at the time when the 14th amendment was adopted. is that correct? >> that is correct, because some of the states started to describe the common law at that point because of a discriminatory view that a woman's proper role was as a wife and mother, a view the constitution rejects, and that's why it's appropriate to do the historical analysis at a higher level of generality. >> in the case of that, can it be said the right to abortion is deeply rooted in the history and traditions of the american people? >> yes, it can. again, at the founding women were able to end their pregnancy under the common law, and in fact, this court specifically discussed casey as the decision based on history and tradition, and it note 19 specifically called out and relied on the conclusion that at the time of the founding and well into the 1800s, women had the ability to end the pregnancy. >> what was the principal source the court relied on in roe for its historical analysis. who was

by the time the american historical association is first downed, 1884, 200 of these societies had been opened across the various states and actually some of the biggest and strongest and most well supported ones were here in the midwest. so in wisconsin and iowa and such places they really wanted to collect and know their history. the state supported these things. all right, so what's the significance of these things? one of the things is they collect the history. even in the idea that reagan is siding winthrop's sermon. what you begin to understand is these sort of unthought of, unknown places like historical societies are all embedded in the way we tell our nation's stories. reagan cannot call america a city on a hill without in effect the sermon being found. how is the sermon found? historical societies keep it and find it and print it. right? which is to say that the language of american in politics embodies far more than just a set of beliefs or policy positions. it also contains a whole history of these libraries, these historical societies, archives and so on. all sorts of indiv

by the time the american historical association is founded in 1884, 200 of these societies had been opened across the various states. and actually some of the biggest and strongest and most well-supported ones were here in the midwest, in wisconsin and iowa and such places. they really wanted to collect and know their history. the state supported these things. all right, so what's the significance of these things? one of the things is they collect the history. even in the idea that reagan is citing winthrop's sermon, what you begin to understand is these sort of unthought of, unknown places like historical societies are all embedded in the way we tell our nation's stories. reagan cannot call america a city on a hill without in effect the sermon being found. how is the sermon found? historical societies keep it and find it and print it. right? which is to say that the language of american politics embodies far more than just a set of beliefs or policy positions. it also contains a whole history of these libraries, these historical societies, archives and so on. all sorts of individuals and

an american historical association panel tries to answer that question. >> i'm jeffrey engel, the founding director for the center for presidential history at southern methodist university. you will know because you signed up for this webinar, we're here to talk about presidents and hatred. two contextual points that might be helpful from the start. i mentioned this to my daughter what i was doing. her first question was are you doing that because of president trump. i said i suspect that's why we wanted to do it in the first place, but we're not talking about president trump. we're talking about presidents in history. no doubt he will show up in the q&a. but obviously this is the aha. we'll try to keep focus on those for whom we have a greater historical perspective. then she asked another really interesting question. she's a sharp cookie. she said, well, all presidents are disliked. how do you decide which ones to focus on? i said, well, that's really what we're going to be exploring, that obviously even in the best of cases, almost half the country probably didn't vote for you, but that

. >> the brief for the american historical association says that abortion was not legal before quickening in 26 out of 37 states at the time when the 14th amendment was adopted. is that correct? >> that is correct, because some of the states had started to discard the common law at that point because of a discriminatory view that a woman's proper role was as a wife and mother, a view that the constitution now rejects. that's why it's now appropriate to do it at a higher level of generality. again, at the founding women were able to end their pregnancy under the common law and in fact this court in gluxberg described casey as based on tradition and at note 19 called out and relied on roe's conclusion that tell the of the founding and well into the 1800s, women had the ability to end a pregnancy. >> what was the principle source that the court relied on in roe for its historical analysis? who was the author of that article? >> i apologize, your honor, i don't remember the author. i know that the court spent many pages of the opinion doing an historical analysis. there is also a brief on beh

. >> the brief for american historical association says abortion was not legal before quickly 26 out of 37 states at a time when the 14th amendment was adopted, is that correct? >> it is because some states started to describe the common law a because of the view in the role was wife and mother that they reject and it's appropriate to do historical analysis at a higher level of generality. >> can it be said the right to abortion is deeply rooted in history and traditions of thera american people? >> yes, it can. at the founding, women were able and pregnancy under common law and is court specifically just discussed casey as a discussion based on history and decision 19 specifically called out and relieded on rose conclusion that at the time of the founding and well into the 1800s women have the ability to end a pregnancy. >> was the principal source the court relied on in row for its historical analysis? who was the i author of the article? i apologize, i don't remember the author, i know the court signs many pages during historical analysis and there's a brief on behalf of several k

i'm doctor colleen i'm a senior vice president at the white house historical association and the director of the david science center for white house history. the white house historical association is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to educate americans about that rich and diverse history of the white house and the people who live and work there. our guest this evening is michael he is a retired rear admiral from the navy civil engineer corps. he served in a variety of assignments around the world and is 29 year military career. including as commander of camp david. after retirement thousand ten, michael jordan private industry is a chief executive officer of the building information technology company headquartered in his hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania. in october 2017, he published his first book inside camp david the private world of the presidential retreat. mike travels often speaking about the book has been covered by the wall street journal, the today show c-span and many other print radio television outlets. after our conversation, mike will be taking qu

i'm doctor colleen i'm a senior vice president at the white house historical association and the director of the david science center for white house history. the white house historical association is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with a mission to educate americans about that rich and diverse history of the white house and the people who live and work there. our guest this evening is michael he is aet

can you give us a sense of how you view our current situation historically? lot of barometerse indices of what makes a civilization successful i'm very worried about because they're all predicated -- i guess i would clarify that by saying constitutional governments, sizable middle class. it has to be larger in aggregate than the wealthy and the poor combined. and we're starting to see, we've seen for 12 years until 2017 a steady erosion in the income, 1.7 trillion in student department largely accrued by the middle class, the age of home ownership falling, the age of marriage, age when people get married lengthening, first child born, the demography itself we're down to 1.7. so the middle class is being tested as never before. and also i think you have to have a sense of borders. i would always study what would cause wars, and they were always over borders, and they were not important in strategic defense, but he were symbols that their culture could inculcate common customs, traditions that we unite various tribes. we in the united states are the first reall

one major historical consideration is the forced relocation of american indian people, restricting access to traditional food including regionally specific hunting, gathering, fishing and farming. a lot of traditional food source -- the lack of traditional sources relied on government programs such as the commodity food program and included the distribution of food such as lard, canned meats, salt and sugar. according to the north dakota department, the average age of death in the decades between 2009 and 2019, the average age of death for american indians was 56.8 years. the average age of death for the white population was over 77 years. about a 20 year gap in the age of death. systems along with dachshund -- new moving forward a multipronged approach in collaboration with numerous stakeholders is needed to address the upstream social determination of health and increase access to healthier foods. promising best practices and strategies for american indian and native alaskan populations can include several areas including improving existing programs, promoting breast-feeding and early c