Interior west. Soweve proceeding pretty chronologically up to this point. This lecture is going kind of spin us out onto a topic. So were going to start right around Thomas Jefferson, who we left off talking about on monday, but were going to jump the way through forward to the usso a lot of the topics were talking about today, theyre also going to come up in our future lectures. So just know that if you feel slightto what time were in, ig to do my best to signpost, but just flag me down. Youre like, weve suddenly jumped 20 years. Thats going to happenthematic. But what i really want us to get out of this is a into this question. Weve been talking throughout the class, which is once you have an empire, how you exert control over it and ■ ■w is the federal government, which we started to talk about on monday, going to control the interior west is going to be its kind o biggest problem. So well start here. Adam smith, pretty famous dude economist, as the americans are starting to dra
Explorers in the sort of interior west. So as i told you all last time, weve proceeding pretty chronologically up to this point. This lecture is going kind of spin us out onto a thematic topic. So were going to start right around Thomas Jefferson, who we left off talking about on monday, but were going to jump the way through forward to the usmexico war and the civil war. And so a lotf today, theyre also going to come up in our future lectures. So just know that if you feel slightly unmoored when it comes to what time were in, im going to do my best to signpost, but just flag me down. Youre like, weve suddenly jumped 20 years. Thats going to happen today because its a more of a thematic topic. But what i really want us to get out of this is a deeper insight into this question. Weve been is once you have an empire, how you exert control over it and how is the new us federal government, which we started to talk about on monday, going to control the interior west is going to be its kind o
Weekends on cspan two are an intellectual feast. Every saturday American History tv documents americas stories. And on sunday book tv brings u the latest of nonfiction books and authors. Funding for cspan two comes from these Television Companies and more. Including comcast. You think this is just a Community Center . Or no, its way more than that. Comcast is partnering with 1000 Community Senators tocreate wifi enabled comcast, along with these Television Companies support cspan 2 as a public service. Good morning. Thank you for getting up everybody, and coming to hear me. I really appreciate it. Im just making sure my sound is good. I am here on a new book i wrote, called silent spring revolution. And, the origins of that book began really when i was a boy. Because my mother and father were teachers, and we had some, the one park of being a teacher to get some extra summertime. We use our extra summertime as a family, we would go all over the United States visiting our National Parks
Good morning. Thank you for getting up, everybody. And coming to hear me. I really appreciate it. Im just making sure my sounds good. Im here on a new book i wrote called Spring Revolution and the origins of that began really when i was a boy because mother and father were teachers and we had some one perk of being a teacher is gets some extra summer time and we used our extra time as a family. We went all over the United States visiting our National Parks and seashores. You know, i got to go to yellowstone and the olympics in the everglades. Wed have a pontiac and Station Wagon and a trail or i grew up in northwest ohio, the midwest, and we would then just go see the country and had asthma as a boy. And and it was horrible. And wherever went, i was so reinforced by picking up brochures like we used to do in those days and on it i would sit at the place would saved by Theodore Roosevelt who also had asthma as a boy and was would suffer mightily. So identified with tr and i realized tha
Film festival in the nations capital. Promise of jobs from a proposed uranium mill is a tantalizing prospect for an economically devastated colorado town, until environmentalists step in to try to shut it down. Will jobs or health and environment prevail . The Film Documents how a local Community Comes to grips with the dilemma. Were trying to open up a uranium mill, and theyre trying to shut it down. You know, its a big dream, and people are looking forward to these jobs out there. I want them to understand that theres people here. Yeah, but i dont think they care about us people. I mean, theres no compromise. They dont care about us. Nuclear power was supposed to be our future. A lot of this town was here because of union carbide, and then when they left, were still here. Theyre long gone now. Its almost like were still surviving, but its just kind of like those last few breaths. We want to keep breathing, but weve got to get something in here to do it. Nuclear energy remains our lar