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Professor Darren Dochuk teaches a class about mid20th century Oil Interests. He describes the expansion of he describes the east Texas Oil Boom and the expansion of u. S. Oil businesses abroad to places like saudi arabia and alberta, canada. He argues that religion played a significant role in the worldview and Business Practices of Global Companies and individual prospectors. This class is one hour and 15 minutes. Prof. Dochuk good morning. Welcome back from spring break and welcome back to our history of oil in american life. Today we are going to look at a critical phase between the 1930s a...

The u. S. Institute of peace. Thank you very much. Hello, everybody. Thank you very much for the commission and its cochairs, for hosting this very timely briefing on the political and security crisis in the democratic republic of congo, or drc. Congress is launching u. S. Policy toward drc and the wider Great Lakes Region of Central Africa using tools such as the foreign aid appropriations process, legislation on minerals, sexual violence, child soldiers, he met generally at international adoptions, oversight activities and direct engagement with regional leaders in Civil Society. Over the ye...

For our complete American History tv schedule, go to cspan. Org. Coming up on American History tv in primetime, road to the white house rewind looks at past president ial debates. Next, the september 23rd and aucts 26th, 1976 debates between president gerald ford and former georgia governor jimmy carter. Later, the october 11th and 15th 1992 debates between president george h. W. Bush, then arkansas governor bill clinton and texas businessman ross perot. Next, road to the white house rewind brings you archival coverage of president ial races. From 1976, the first debate between incumbent presi...

For our complete American History tv schedule, go to cspan. Org. Coming up on American History tv in primetime, road to the white house rewind looks at past president ial debates. Next, the september 23rd and aucts 26th, 1976 debates between president gerald ford and former georgia governor jimmy carter. Later, the october 11th and 15th 1992 debates between president george h. W. Bush, then arkansas governor bill clinton and texas businessman ross perot. Next, road to the white house rewind brings you archival coverage of president ial races. From 1976, the first debate between incumbent presi...

Recipient of numerous fellowships including the National Endowment for humidityities. Boston globe calls the slave clause a powerful look at the struggle to end slavery in the United States. Its as multifacetted as the movement it chronicles. Sinha we are so very delighted to have her joining us. Please join me in welcoming manisha sinha. [applause] thank you for that generous introduction, so as you can probably tell from the size of this book. I have said almost everything wanted to about abolition in it. So today i will just briefly outline the book. The slaves cause is a comprehensive hist...