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Story and how to tell the story of the country in a way that neither sells a short the National Greatness or whitewashes our National Sins in our politics and what may be an unusual way and this book is clearly intended to speak the gist of the moment to hear about how to approach the questions. Wilfred mcclay is a national treasure. Hes first and foremost the chair of the university of oklahoma he is admired and loved by scores of students past and present and one of the great writers of American History. His book the self and society of modern america was just the best book in American Intellectual history. Its a students guide to u. S. History and why place matters, geography, identity and civic life in modern america acted in the service of the country he served for 11 years on the National Council of humanity is which is the Advisory Board of the National Endowment for the humanities. Hes a member of the u. S. Commission which i told you in order to challenge myself to pronounce t
Enjoy booktv now and over the weekend on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. On youve all of income director of social cultural and constitutional studies here at aei, and it is my very great pleasure to welcome you to a discussion of land of hope a one volume history of a records bye Great American historian wildred mcclay. Its a book that comes at a time when questions of who we are as people of whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in in a wy that neither sells short our National Greatness nor whitewashes our national sins, are really life questions in our politics and what may be an unusual way. This book is clearly intended to speak to just that moment so the can be a better time to hear from bill about a a sense of hw to approach these questions. Bill mcclay is a national treasure. So. Is first and foremost teacher. He holds the blankenship chair
Good evening, everyone. Welcome, we are happy youre here tonight, very happy to have Megan Kate Nelson with us with her book the 3cornered war, the union, the consistory and native people in their fight for the rest. This is an engrossing narrative account which shows how the civil war, the indian wars and western expansion were all interconnected. The 1860s were a time of National Conflict which has north and south and the American West was the resource involves letters and diaries, military records and oral histories, and maps from that time. Nelson writes about nine individuals who worked toward Self Determination and the fight for control of the region. Some of these people are well known to us like frontiersmen kit carson. Others like juanita who we get to know. Their stories were lost to history until now and to unearth their stories show the important of individual actions even in the midst of a larger military conflict. The book earned a star review in Library Journal and histo