Capture the Flag

Sep 3, 2009

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Woden Teachout talked about her book Capture the Flag: A Political History of American Patriotism (Basic Books; May 25, 2009). In her book she teraces how the meanings of patriotic symbols have mutated over time. She was interviewed by the crew of the C-SPAN Civics Bus at Bear Pond Books in Montpelier, Vermont. The date of the interview is .. Read More
Woden Teachout talked about her book Capture the Flag: A Political History of American Patriotism (Basic Books; May 25, 2009). In her book she teraces how the meanings of patriotic symbols have mutated over time. She was interviewed by the crew of the C-SPAN Civics Bus at Bear Pond Books in Montpelier, Vermont. The date of the interview is not known,

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:19 Unidentified Speaker CAPTURE THE FLAG THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISM OF THE BOOK EXAMINES PAGE ERRATIC SAMPLES...
00:01:10 Unidentified Speaker THE BOOK EXAMINES EIGHT HISTORICAL MARKERS HOW DID YOU TUSSAUDS POINTS.
00:01:24 Unidentified Speaker IT WAS WONDERFUL I LOOKED OF ALL OF THE DIFFERENT SIDES STORIES I COULD FIND AND THERE WERE SOME ANY...
00:01:59 Unidentified Speaker ONE OF THE STORIES THAT PEOPLE HAD COMPELLING WAS THE CIVIL-RIGHTS MOVEMENT PUT THE FLAG INTO THE...
00:03:08 Host HOW WAS IT USED IN DIFFERENT WARS WITH REVOLUTIONARY OR CIVIL WAR OR THROUGH VIETNAM?
00:03:16 Unidentified Speaker THE FLAG HAS TWO DIFFERENT MEANINGS AND THESE ARE SOMETIMES SEVERABLE AND SOMETIMES NOT. FOR THEM,...
00:03:52 Host HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PROMINENT AMERICAN CIVIL?
00:03:55 Guest IT WAS NOT IN THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA IF YOU ASK THE PREDOMINANT SYMBOL THEY WOULD NEVER SAY THE FLAG...
00:04:05 Host HOW DID THAT CHANGE OVER TIME?
00:04:09 Guest IN THE 1840'S WITH A LARGE MASSIVE IMMIGRATION A NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE THE IMMIGRATION AND...
00:04:57 Unidentified Speaker IT WAS NOT PROMINENTLY DISPLAYED?
00:04:59 Unidentified Speaker NO. OF INDUSTRY YOU WOULD NAZI FLAGS ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS OR HOUSES OR FLAGPOLES BUT IT WAS AT THAT...
00:05:23 Host HOW DOES AMERICANS USE THE FLAG AS A POLITICAL SYMBOL? HOW DOES IT COMPARE WITH OTHER COUNTRIES?...
00:05:31 Guest VERY INTERESTING THAT IS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I WANTED TO INVESTIGATE I THOUGHT WE'D TAKEN FOR GRANTED...
00:05:58 Host WHY DO THINK THAT IS?
00:06:01 Guest WE ARE THE IN A GRAND NATION YOU CAN SEE THIS MOMENT IN THE 1890'S WHERE FLAGS ENTERED POPULAR CULTURE....

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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