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Amy wax i was raised, born and raised in troy, new york, which is a small city north of albany in upstate new york. My parents are they are both deceased now, but were part of a very cohesive jewish community, up there, of fairly devout people, conservative and modern Orthodox Jews in that area, the tricity area. My father worked in the garment industry. He eventually bought a small business, a factory, up there and worked very hard his whole life to support his family, my two sisters and me. My mother was a teacher for a while and an administrator in the government, in albany. So i kind of come from the middle bourgeoisie, people who are not very well connected or in anyway, i think, privileged, so i regard myself, almost, as kind of a working class girl, certainly as a yeoman class girl. I attended the Public Schools in troy, new york. I went to college at yale college, in t ....
Brian lamb amy wax. Before i ask you questions about why we asked you to come here, i wanted to go through your background. Where are you from . Amy wax i was raised, born and raised in troy, new york, which is a small city north of albany in upstate new york. My parents are they are both deceased now, but were part of a very cohesive jewish community, up there, of fairly devout people, conservative and modern Orthodox Jews in that area, the tricity area. My father worked in the garment industry. He eventually bought a small business, a factory, up there and worked very hard his whole life to support his family, my two sisters and me. My mother was a teacher for a while and an administrator in the government, in albany. So i kind of come from the middle bourgeoisie, people who are not very well connected or in anyway, i think, privileged, so i regard myself, almost, as kind of a working class girl, certainly as a yeoman class girl. ....
Our first speaker of the afternoon is dr. Caroline jenny. Dr. Jeannie is the john l noll, and i pronouncing it correctly . Professor of American Civil War and director of the john l now, i will get it right, silver personal history and university of virginia. She is a graduate from uaa, worked at the National Park service as a historian, an active lecture as you might imagine, winner of a number of different teaching awards. She is coeditor of the university of, and oppresses American Civil War series, past president of the Society Civil war historians, published five books, have them listed on your program, civil war reunion and the limits of reconciliation. She edited petersburg appomattox to work in virginia, and another one on the list is during the debt b ....
Railroad from the west and the Union Pacific railroad from the east met upon a summit in utah. It was here on may 10th, 19 1859 that Leland Stanford wrote broke the last site, also known as the gold site joining the rails of the Transcontinental Railroad and forever linking Stanford University to this transformational event and the changes it brought to california and the nation. The completion of the Transcontinental Railroads connected the vast expanse of the United States with safe and convenient transport. Reducing coast to coast to travel from six months down to one week. In addition the railroad evoked social change through ....
Railroad from the west and the Union Pacific railroad from the east met upon a summit in utah. It was here on may 10th, 19 1859 that Leland Stanford wrote broke the last site, also known as the gold site joining the rails of the Transcontinental Railroad and forever linking Stanford University to this transformational event and the changes it brought to california and the nation. The completion of the Transcontinental Railroads connected the vast expanse of the United States with safe and convenient transport. Reducing coast to coast to travel from six months down to one week. In addition the railroad evoked social change through ....