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you have a new book out, what are you hoping readers will find out? these are things we need to think about what we are considering not the space of america . you are also a lawyer. are those two specialties what brought you to examine aiding this topic. really, it is about five or six years old. can you walk us through the protest that wrote the russians the crescendo of 2020? erin: americans toppled the first equestrian monument we got. put up the statue of king george and that only lasted for about 70 years before soldiers of the new army independence and pulled it down. these issues both rock to folk is use of monument the white worldview. there is a lot of debate on whether monuments in public spaces should be taken down. nothing compares to the summer of 2021 after the death of george floyd, millions of americans marched to protest rachel racial disparity, black lives matter. lots of these rallies focused on monuments as a symbolic meeting place for sho
Eastern here on cspan 3. ÷ucc why up close view Princeton University professor officer of democracy and black÷u arthur of barack obama the story watch in depth live on sunday on book tv. Zv talks about how artist depicted George Washington. His presentation includes famous portraits by John Trumbull, gilbert÷u stewart and this is jt over an ymzvchour. Something constructive, of course, but also notc lightn by any means, but something a little less serious. By that, i mean, theres going to be a lot of visuals in this and ic figure a visual intelligence of something we can a little bit acclaim to, for those of you who need the moreu traditional sort of scaffolding like an outline. We can start off with two pages of that and thats also what thats all zvabout. For those of you who respond to competitiveness competitiveness. c were just going to weigh through two centuries of works of art x mostlyu painting. I should say a little bitzv about myself first. I said im chief historian.
Cities tour along with Cox Communications looks for the literary life of tempe, arizona. Learn about mans relationship with wildfires and an effort to change the narrative and its role in the environment with stephen pine. Years, this country after the great fires of 1910 which trauma sties which traumatized u. S. Forest service, tried to take back the landscape. In the last 50 years, its half the history of our engagement. We tried to put back good fire and that has been difficult. Here from brooks simpson about the challenges of writing history. Im the person that tells the story and i will do it as best i can and as honestly as i can, as balanced as i can but i get to do something fundamentally creative and say this is what i think happened. Onon American History to be cspan3, here about the lives of u. S. Senators very goldwater and carl hayden through their collections of personal and political papers. At carlyou look haydens career, he was really responsible for cosponsoring and
Digiacomantonio. I wanted to end the series with something instructive, of course, but also, not light and frothy by any means, but something a little less serious. For those of you to respond to competitiveness, i have a couple door prizes i will give out at the end to people who can answer a couple questions that might occur during the talk, but mostly this is going to be visual. We are going to wade through two centuries of works of art, mostly paintings, some statuary of George Washington portrayed in art. I should say a little bit about myself. I said i am chief historian, i am not an art historian, but anyone who appreciates the of doing city history, understands you have to work with art understands that is how people express themselves when they are at their best and sometimes their worst, as well see. When i taught a course at Gw University on George Washington, i made sure there was one lecture on George Washington in the art and i refined it a little bit for todays purposes,