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Thank you for your question. With that, lets give a warm up applause of gratitude to dr. Langston, colin wilkins. Let me pull up my cheat sheet here here. I should know this by now. I do this frequently. So hes currently an assistant professor of folklore and africanamerican studies at the university of wisconsin, madison. Before that, he was in seattle, where he was the director of the Washington Cultural traditions center, Washington Cultural. Its a mess. It is. And before he actually was here in tennessee, where he worked at both the Tennessee Arts Commission and tennessee, so formally in a past life, he was one of these people running the tense, doing other hospitality. But now hes on the other side as a published author himself. And so with that, ill turn it to langston, and hes going to give us ....
Proceedings lincoln knew how to use a fun to advantage, an opposing liar who claimed he could bring a man to prove an alibi heard lincoln shooting back i have no doubt you can bring a man to prove a lie by. You can watch this and other programs online a book tv. Org. Book tv tapes hundreds of other programs throughout country all year long. Heres a look at some events we will cover this week. Monday, National Press club in washington where derek grapple report on the us governments doomsday plan. That evening we fly out to california where former speechwriter and Senior Advisor to president richard nixon, pat buchanan will shed light on the inmate nixon administration. On wednesday, to the macarthur memorial where Washington PostForeign Correspondent peter ....
And she is the author of this book inez the life and time of Inez Millholland. Who was she . She was the sole martyr for womens referage movement for womens rights. She was a lawyer who had to fight to be able to practice, she was a free lover, part of the greenitch village crowd, she was a war correspondent, a socialist, an advocate for prostitutes and any person who was the underdog. She was rich. She was beautiful. And she liked to dance. You open the book at baser. What happens . What period are we talking about . She is a junior and a star of the campus. Hillary stanton blast is going out and women are in the tread. Inez spent her teenagerane years in britain she goes to the president and says we will like to have a blast and she doesnt take no for an answer. She leaves one spring day, about 25 students, and faculty follow her from campus next door to the cemetery and there all these women listened to these suffrages. These ....
Many highways and streets and especially in this country as well, you know . Phillips 66 has become as familiar to many people out here as a coke bottle. Its that iconic in the minds of many motorists. Well frank got his start in the oil business in a sort of convoluted way. He was actually, he was not from oklahoma. He was actually born on the nebraska frontier out in the loop valley. His father was a civil war veteran, fought in the union army, and his parents moved out into nebraska territory. And thats where he was born in 1874. And they came back short will have a that shortly after that the phillips, to their home country in southwestern iowa. And thats where frank grew up. So he had those basically midwestern roots. Came from a big family, big family, many brothers and sisters. He was the oldest and he was the dominant sibling by far. His ambition was strong but it wasnt necessarily pointed towards the oil business because there was no oil business to speak of when he was a youn ....
Creeping across the country a survey that instantly becomes the most discussed. Grapes of wrath. A lot of stereotypes of oklahoma that come from some very powerful images. First of all the grapes of wrath. That was the one my father would not allow me to read. I could read anything no matter how salacious as long as it wasnt the grapes of wrath. And so many stereotypes about oklahoma emanate from the book. That is not to say there was in the dust bowl but we are not a dust bowl now and are not a dust bowl forever. So that was the prevailing image. On the heels of the book we have this powerful film with all the images mesmerizing black and white images of the dust blowing. Of course they have lingered with people. Of course people see oklahoma in that light. And this the totally opposite end of that we have the movie musical this is oklahoma is a place where corn grows as high as an elephant. That is not true either. Oklahoma writers have had the extra challenge have reclaiming the okl ....