Dick Talbot News Today

Thank you for joining us. Yesterday there were taxicab issues, subway issues, who knows what well have. I am a visiting professor at the university of saskatchewan where it was about 25 degrees warmer when i left than it is in washington, d. C. Saskatoon is 300 miles north of the montana border. It is way up there and on the great plains of canada, spectacularly beautiful place, of course since it is 25 degrees warmer than washington, and which we know has always been in the south part of the Un...

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Through ellis island with a name tag on that said vus, so all the desce descendants were called theis. Thats how he got his new name in the new country. Yes. Thank you all very much. [ applause ] everyone who can will join us tomorrow morning. Its going to be in the Russell Senate office building, and the instructions are on the piece of yellow flyer outside. Look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Things in cleveland are getting back to normal now that the Republican National convention has come t...

Introducing people for this symposium. I have to say that about a year ago when we had our last conference, chuck and i sat down and with jillian berk wits here from Ohio University press because she publishes the books that come out of these series, we sat down and talked about what should we do next year. We thought, lets go a little bit off of the chronology because we had been doing civil war and reconstruction and the lead up to the civil war for now more than a decade. And we thought we ne...

I mean, my grandparents had their naturalization papers framed on the wall. And i suspect that was very common for hundreds of thousands and indeed millions of immigrants who became citizens and were fiercely proud of becoming citizens because it gave them a place of belonging and gave them a place to be where they were. Thats my point. You have to have a concept of citizenship as well. If you go backwards if American History, is there always the concept of citizenship in the colonies . Theyre n...