About the start of the city of san antonio. We are at the entrance to mission san jose. This is part of the San Antonio Mission National Historic park. This is a unit of the National Park service. There are more than 400 National Park sites around the country. Each of these 419plus units help to tell some part of the american story. The part of the american story that we tell here at the San Antonio Missions is the Spanish Colonial history of this area, of this part of the world. Mission san jose is one of four missions that make up the National Park. The National Park is comprised of mission conception, san juan and espata. We have a model of mission san jose. This is a model that exterior walls. The exterior walls were a series of rooms that served as a living quarters for the mission inhabita inhabitants. The Mission Compound also in the colonial period, anyway, would have included other buildings, workshops. Today we see remnants of foundations for some of those buildings. Of cours
Alex, was it you who wrote about the Jackson Magnolia. It was. So you already know about this. For everybody else, think back when Jonathan Pliska visited our class and we talked about the story behind the Jackson Magnolia. Who remembers the story, not alex. Anybody else . Yeah, william. Andrew jacksons wife died right before he went to office so he planted the tree because it was her favorite tree. Uhhuh. And he brought the seeds from the herm taj in tennessee and do you remember what jonathan told us . False. Well, he said that there really isnt any type of contemporary evidence. Andrew jackson never mentions planting a tree. Theres nothing in newspapers. So it seems like this is a story that has, of course, these romantic origins and its continued to grow from that ever since. So this is actually the first known exterior photograph of the white house. It was taken by a welshborn photographer named john plume jr. And about january, 1846. So, if youre looking at the white house, this
The end of the 19th century. This has become over the years an allpurpose media antidote. Useful in describing any number of media sins and shortcomings including the scourge of fake news including the scourge of fake news. So what are we talking about here . What are media myths . These are prominent stories about and or by the news media that are widely known and often retold but which under scrutiny, under examination dissolve as apockricful or widely exaggerated media myths. And in a way media myths are cousins to fake news. Maybe thought of cases of fake news that have massac masquerad accurate for many years. They can be thought of as the junk food of journalism. Appealing, alluring, delicious perhaps but not terribly fulsome and not terribly healthy. The junk food of journalism. Some of the features of media myths, these invariably are pithy tales, succinct, short, to the point. And of course theyre media centric. They revolve around media, media actors, journalists. Theyre easi
And of course, we read a few of the letters that he sent home when he was traveling in 1959, as well as in 1964 in africa as well as the middle east. As well as a few speeches that he made. One in 1959 and another in 1965 before he was killed. That really sort of talked about his viewpoints on africa. And then also a very critical interview that he gave when he attended the organizational organization of African Unity conference in in late july of 1964. In which he sort of discussed his strategy and the reason why he came to that conference and was appealing to these african heads of state. So hopefully, everyones read and and listened to these speeches. And so we can really sort of get a sense of of malcolm xs viewpoints on africa. But really, i mean, i think in order for us to really understand why malcolm expressed some of the things he did in these in these letters. Because in many ways, we see that hes sort of arguing against particular ideas within the black community that were w
Scholarship recipients from last year. Correct . She came here and enjoyed herself, im sure. Patrick is the author of the land shall be day loosed in blood, a new history of nat turners revolt published by Oxford University press. It is one of the finest books i have read on southern history in a long time. It is a book i assigned to my undergraduates in this spring, and as we all know, undergraduates are tough customers when it comes to books. They absolutely enjoyed mr. Breens scholarship and especially his writing. It is a bold book, important book, and one thing patrick and i talked about, it is just a shame that one can go to southampton county today where turners revolt took place and you will see some state signage, but you will have no way of taking a driving tour to see the sites related to that important revolt. It truly is shocking. Patrick is trying to do his part and bring more awareness and audiences likeat us who go to battlefields, i suspect if we had the opportunity, w