How Historic Was Last Week? A Historian Puts It In Context.

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June 29, 2015

President Barack Obama sings "Amazing Grace" as he delivers the eulogy for South Carolina state senator and Rev. Clementa Pinckney during Pinckney's funeral service June 26, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

President Obama won a series of huge victories in the Supreme Court last week, including health care and same sex marriage. And officials in South Carolina called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds after nine African Americans were gunned down in a Charleston church. Here & Now's Robin Young asks historian Julian Zelizer to put the week into historical context.

Guest

Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School. He tweets @julianzelizer

This segment aired on June 29, 2015.

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