America. He received his phd in american studies in 1983 from the university of kansas and is on the faculty of Catholic University for the past 35 years. His research and teaching interests include a variety of religion and cultural topics. Religious movements, religion and social change, fundamentalism, religion in American Culture, religion and globalization and religion and ecology. Please without further ado, join me in welcoming building us. Thank you. So, good evening everyone. I am delighted to be here and i am delighted that you are here on this rather hot, muggy, welcome to washington dc in august evening. I am going to start this with this image. Actually i had originally conjured up an image of Ralph Waldo Emerson and then i doctored it with long hair and beads and a headband and i looked at it a while and came to the conclusion that this would probably verged on sacrilege so instead, i am starting with this particular image and the title from walden pond to woodstock, the
Welcoming billin dinges. [applause] doctor dinges ok, thank you. Good evening, everyone. , anddelighted to be here im delighted you are here on muggy, welcome, to washington, d. C. In august evening. I am going to start this with this image. Up anoriginally conjured image of rough water everson. Ralph waldo emerson. I doctored it with long hair and beads and a headband. I looked at it a while and came to the conclusion this would probably verge on sacrilege. Thisad, i am starting with particular image in the title. Woodstock, pond to the transcendental and roots transcendentalist roots of the 1960s counterculture. I am going to share with you some thoughts this evening and some ideas about a mid19th century american religious, philosophical, and Literary Movement known as transcendentalism. And, its connections with socially,ture that culturally, politically generation gap. The age of aquarius, make love, not war, times they are a changing. Turn on, tune, in, drop out. Sex, drugs, rock
Her presentation on art. Please join me in welcoming rachelle. Good morning. Thank you, everybody. Its a real pleasure to be here. Last year, you heard, i was sitting in your spot. After the profitable conference. When the call came out to talk about innovations in world war ii, i was happy to answer the call. I thought it was interesting in my mind, at least, and something predictable, but i learned that its a very, very wide subject. I wont cover all of it by any means and ive learned a lot. So i hope that youll profit as well. So living in new york, im very, very fortunate to be living close to the museum of modern art and also to the whitney, and i take full advantage as do my students. So i think that art can be a really profitable way to teach history, and i would be curious how many of you use art or art history in your own teaching in your history classes . So i would say really a good number of you. And i would say in what ways . Briefly, how do you use art . I dont know if we
Reporter authorities are now learning more about the suspect described as a loaner and crazy by neighbors and other students. He was always what he was. He was always weird, like violent and aggressive. We are looking into his social media posts, his movements, his conversations leading up to the shooting. Reporter some families left in absolute anguish, friends, strangers, all coming together to remember the victims of one of the Deadliest School shooting in the u. S. Where do we go, who do we go to . How do we cope . How do we find the strength . Reporter the suspect had ties to a white supremacist group, meanwhile the fbi is now looking into how they handled a tip they received last year about a threat the suspect posted on youtube. And lets give you a live look at the vigil in parkland, florida. It is evening now, but all those lights, all those candles, thousands of People Holding them in honor of those who died in the massacre. This is one of nearly a dozen vigils planned for the
Of the 1950s and hippies of the 1960s. He also talked about the spread of lsd and the prevalence of drugs in hippie culture. This class is about 55 minutes. Going to talk about the prof. Rorabaugh ok, so today we are going to talk about the counterculture, which in many ways people have associated with the 1960s as one of the major aspects of the 1960s. One could say of the decade of the 1960s, radical politics clearly failed and faded away. And social change bumped up against limitations. Race relations changed and official segregation disappeared and america became more tolerant, but race did not disappear as a fact. Many liberals in the 1950s and 1960s hope it would be destroyed. Gender relations also changed. Women assumed new roles but women and men soon came to realize the differences have not been revealed by somebody declaring men and women are equal. Men and women would not see things the same way. The greatest changes that took place clearly was cultural changes. A lot of the