Events, warm and fuzzy, highly entertaining, song and dance, one day festivals, period. Isnt it funny how when you want to do africanAmerican History, . E can do a oneday festival not caucasian history . The department had a longrange plan. They were going to build a visiting center one day, that was going to be stateoftheart, and there would be some exhibits in their exclusively in there, exclusively dedicated to telling the story of slavery. Includeld africanAmerican History, without even slightly changing the tour. In 1988. Ill in focus, what they didnt understand was that Lessons Learned during the Civil Rights Movement should have conveyed to policymakers that expected automatic deference and acceptance of the status quo representations of africanAmerican History and culture, like slavery itself, had passed irrevocably into history. Thatd passed the point africanamericans would say, if you think thats the best thing, thats what we are going to do. Please. [laughter] durant puther
This research . It was because i feel at the time of Ronald Reagan, accomplished so much. I mentioned restoring pride in america, creating a booming economy. And bringing freedom to millions in Eastern Europe and the phoenix communism, which in my opinion is the most important historical event of the second half of the 20th century. We do not have thousands of Nuclear Missiles aimed at us, at least from russia anymore. Life in the late 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, was involved in fighting communism. But the cold war. Proxy wars here and there, korea, vietnam, many other examples. It wasnt present like that in the 1960s. That communist and at the berlin wall, communism and i will end with this, many people think that the first time ronald called for the berlin war to be torn down, when he yelled, mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. Thats not when it happened. It was 1967 during a televised kennedy, itrobert was a question that Ronald Reagan answered and on may 15, 1967 call to tear down the lan
Ian Hacking, RIP. Our academic professional societies do an absolutely abysmal job of informing their members of their colleagues’ deaths. Death notices and obituaries typically appear in these organizations’ bulletins months or even years after a scholar’s death. Members of the Organization of American Historians must pay extra to subscribe to a publication that lists deaths. You might think that historians, of all people, would do more to remember their parting.