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The arsenal at harpers ferry. There is no mention of the there thought of freeing the slaves. T theres none of that. None of it does it imply. Does it imply that it was a good thing . Oh, no. Its almost encyclopedic. A its one of those entries like e let me get the facts down and lets be done. Done. In fairness, most were done like that. Its odd they would have fas commemorated that. The it, too, is part of john t brown is part of kind of a segregationist memory,ever white supremacist memory, as wa well, because everyone agreed that john brown was crazy, right . In my High School History rown ...

If plattsburgh had been lost, god knows what wouldve happened to this country. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] she also details the societal attitudes towards impoverished minorities at the time, focusing on the challenges faced by single mothers. This class is about an hour and 45 minutes. Ur 45 minutes. So, today were talking about the war on poverty, and the urban crisis in the late 1960s in the United States. And were looking at the ways in which the black Freedom Movement raised the issues of poverty, and of ...

It depicts this mythical encounter of brothers, one fighting for the union, one for the confederacy. Theyre embracing. If youre close enough you could see the Union Soldier has real shows, the southern soldiers shoes are falling apart. It is brandnew. Its next to, or across the hall from the plaques that talk about secession in a complicated way. But even though i think that this is very much all about reconciliationist memory, i dont know how you could possibly be more about reconciliationist memory than this, i do think that the narratives are changing and much more complicated. We had a can...

If you can see i cannot do anything about the space. Theres some room on the floor. Feel free to make yourself comfortable. This is our session on public intellectuals, and i am delighted to be here for this panel. I apologize ahead of time if i have a little less energy than usual. My appendix did not quite make it to the new year so i am just recovering from surgery. This has been a big debate, ongoing debate about public intellectuals in the academy. There was an article by Nicholas Kristof which triggered a conversation. He wrote an article professors we need you are cope he argued that ma...

Christoff which triggered a conversation. Many e wrote anhe wrote an article where he said many people rendered themselves unavailable or not asking questions that were relevant to the public and in some ways fostered a disconnect with the public that is necessary. He didnt say this is true of all intellectuals but he did argue theyre a dying breed. Others said theres many good, interesting voices out there. The point of todays panel is not so much to have a debate about whether he was right or wrong nor have a debate familiar at almost every oha conversation about the role of the public intel...