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Book you are looking for and support independent booksellers across the country. With that out of the way, lets get started. You probably recognize the voices of both of our guest tonight. Our host is laura singular. She has been a producer with npr in washington d. C. International npr reported covering the midwest. Currently, she is producer and Community Engagement report a kansas citys npr. Thank you for joining us tonight. You are welcome. Good to be here. Im jumping in and i guess. Im delighted to be here and introduce you to pam fessler, whos a Award Winning journalist at npr. She has covered poverty and election issues, voter issues, for many years. Now, in the tradition of npr journalists who you recognize as excellent storytellers, podcast and online. She has proven the ability to translate that ability to tell stories on the radio. The platform of the printed ....
Explain in advance that this history course looks at responses to disasters in American History with an emphasis on research and writing over the semester but exam various disasters from various perspectives. First of all psychological and psychological problems. Disaster sermons in responses to fires, hurricanes and epidemics in colonial america. Famine suffered by the donald party, and routes it in california. Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine and the ability to create new lives in this country. Disaster tourism, at the johns down flood of 1889 the impact of the triangle shirt waste factory fire in new york city and disaster that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today, we are discussing david osha skins book book polio an american story. You all received questions that i posted. And im really interested in this topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s and, of course, thats when so much of this book takes ....
To think about what i think its core dialectic was. The tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive era believed were important. And they believed they were not incompatible, but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. So again, throughout class today be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled in search of progressism, which i think aptly summed up the way that the historians were rummaging around, knowing that the progressive era existed but quibbling about what counted as progressive his. Who counted, when it started. Some people limit only to the Political Party that it was named for. Others define it ....
What would your for what was your familys size makeup . Harlan two brothers and one sister. Where did you fit in . Harlan i was number three. Before we started recording we were talking about your family and growing up during the depression years, could you tell me a little bit about what life was like for you coming up during that time . Was an my father irishamerican. He emigrated from ireland to the United States to find a better place to live. Hered his family came over andi looked at their papers found up they had 600 to the whole family when they emigrated to the United States. Spent most of his life. N the cloth industry he was either a loan fixer or a or a weaverom fixer in these mills. Say your father was education minded when it came to the children . Harlan yes. I can recall at a very early age, when my father was going to talk about what would happen in the future. ....
Looks at responses to disasters in American History with an emphasis on research and writing. Over the semester weve examined various disasters from different perspectives. First of all, the psychological and physical problems at jamestown. Responses to fires, hurricanes, and epidemics in colonial america. Famine suffered by the donner party and route to california. Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine and the ability to create new lives in this country. Disaster tourism. The johnstown flood of 1889. The impact of the triangle shirt waist factory fire in new york city and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today we are discussing the Pulitzer Prizewinning book polio an american story. You all received questions i posted. Im really interested in this topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s, and thats when so much of this book takes place. ....