Century, transformations that changed the country from being one country distant from the center of International Conflict and activities into becoming a central actor. Not the most dominant, most powerful. A country to be reckoned with. One way to think about this is the u. S. Goes from being a continental power after the civil war to being a power now with International Range it did not have before with a whole new set of problems related but also different from the issues of the postcivil war decades we dealt with before. In the first proposition central to the way we think about American History is the u. S. Is always an international society. International in the obvious ways but also in the sense the u. S. Has always depended upon the movement of people, goods finance from far away. There was never a time when americans living in the u. S. Were isolated from the rest of the world. Never a time when they were an island without connections elsewhere. Our ideas of governance, the pe
And to try and make it very easy for you to donate coming you can donate on the festival website. You can donate on the facebook page. You can use the apple if youre oldfashioned, you can do it in person at the Festival Headquarters here. Our first author, who will be speaking is Joseph Madison beck, an attorney in atlanta, Harvard University grad. He focuses on intellectual property litigation, particularly copyright and none consumer products. Hes also a mediator in the winter of too many awards for me to mention here. He also teaches at Emory University school of law. Mr. Beck will be speaking about his book, my father and Atticus Finch, an excellent book. Without further until i will turn it over to mr. Beck. Thank you. Thank you for coming. How many of you read to kill a mockingbird . About that. Its a phenomenal bestseller. I would tell you what i call my book, my father and Atticus Finch in a moment. Im going to read because it gives me a chance to give you a background in the b
And to try and make it very easy for you to donate coming you can donate on the festival website. You can donate on the facebook page. You can use the apple if youre oldfashioned, you can do it in person at the Festival Headquarters here. Our first author, who will be speaking is Joseph Madison beck, an attorney in atlanta, Harvard University grad. He focuses on intellectual property litigation, particularly copyright and none consumer products. Hes also a mediator in the winter of too many awards for me to mention here. He also teaches at Emory University school of law. Mr. Beck will be speaking about his book, my father and Atticus Finch, an excellent book. Without further until i will turn it over to mr. Beck. Thank you. Thank you for coming. How many of you read to kill a mockingbird . About that. Its a phenomenal bestseller. I would tell you what i call my book, my father and Atticus Finch in a moment. Im going to read because it gives me a chance to give you a background in the b
From the issues of the postcivil war decades that we dealt with before. The first proposition that has been with us in this course that is central to the way that we think about American History is that the United States has always been an international society. International and obvious ways, people see the classroom with having people of different backgrounds and areas of the world, but also international in the sense that the United States has always depended upon the movement of people, the movement of goods, and the movement of finances from far away. There was never, never a time when the United States or americans living and what would become the United States for nonamericans living and what would become United States never a time when they were isolated from the rest of the world. Never a time when they were an island without deep connections elsewhere. Our ideas of governments, people have populated our society, our trade, our economy have all been deeply dependent upon inter
Next, university of texas at austin professor jeremy surry talks about the world fair in chicago and the for policy. He describes the 1893 worlds fair in chicago and the expansion of the u. S. Navy as ways that america began to build an international presence. This class is about an hour and 10 minutes. Prof. Suri we are going to talk about americas emergence as a global power. The transformations that occurred in the United States in the late 19th century transformations that change the United States from being one country distant from the center of International Conflicts and activities into becoming a central actor, not the most dominant actor, not the most powerful, but now an essential actor by the late 19th century and the ways in which International Affairs were conducted in a country to be reckoned with in international space. One way to think about this is that the United States goes from being a continental power after the civil war where we started this course to the a power