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His return to his hometown of terre haute, indiana following his release from prison by president harding after a federal conviction stemming from the war protests. And tonight were in terre haute in the debs home and museum. Let me introduce you to our guests. Earnest freebuerg. Why do we care about him . Debs was one of the most important labor leaders at a crucial time of conflict between labor and capital. But more importantly, he was the central figure in the socialist movement at a time when it was a viable growing and important part of the american political call chu v culture. Does he ...

Evening, its very encouraging and exciting for us here at the museum to have folks come in for our events. We really appreciate it. And i know that the staff of the raven bookstore appreciates it as well. So now ill introduce tonights guest speaker. James e. Sherow is a professor in the department of history at kansas state university. He specializes in researching and teaching environmental history, kansas history, and the history of the american west. Professor sherow has written six books and numerous articles, including Railroad Empire across the heartland, rephotographing Alexander Gardne...

Sinclair and on wednesday we looked at chicken fat factories and labor production and the chicken industry here in the American South today, were going to be looking at Agricultural Labor. And as i said, those in the room were vegetarians are not off the hook. In fact, we have to of think about the ways in which agriculture, natural labor, has often been exploited and that very difficult conditions under which the vegetables that we eat are often consumed. Theres been a very large rise in the recent years about the importance of eating locally and eating more vegetarian style food and more veg...

Foodways. And if weve talked about the beef industry on monday and looked at the jungle in Upton Sinclair and on wednesday we looked at chicken fat factories and labor production and the chicken industry here in the American South today, were going to be looking at Agricultural Labor. And as i said, those in the room were vegetarians are not off the hook. In fact, we have to of think about the ways in which agriculture, natural labor, has often been exploited and that very difficult conditions under which the vegetables that we eat are often consumed. Theres been a very large rise in the recen...

Well, weve made it to the end. This is our last panel of the day. I think its been a terrific symposium. Im sure everybody here will agree and i thought it was very fitting. We are going to be hearing from dr. Tevi troy today and if there are last panel, this is his book and you see it up on on the screens as well. And we really thought that dr. Troy would be excellent for our final panel of the day because if youre not familiar with his book, it is an overview of everything weve been talking about today, about the intersection of Popular Culture, the white house and the presidency. So its goi...