Mexico month author Richard White presents a history of the Transcontinental Railroad. You draws mexico, next author Richard White presented history of the Transcontinental Railroad. Welcome to the meeting of the Commonwealth Club. You can find us on the internet. I am David Kennedy, professor of history emeritus and codirector of the center for the American West at Stanford University and your moderator for this program. This program is being presented with the California Historical society. It is now my pleasure to introduce our distinguished guests, Richard White, also a professor of history at Stanford University and codirector at the bill lane center for the American West with me and the author of the new book railroaded the transcontinentals and the making of modern america. Richard is got to be more precise, the Margaret Byrne professor of history at stanford or he has been since 1998. He previously taught at the university of utah and the university of washington where he took
Mexico month author Richard White presents a history of the Transcontinental Railroad. You draws mexico, next author Richard White presented history of the Transcontinental Railroad. Welcome to the meeting of the Commonwealth Club. You can find us on the internet. I am David Kennedy, professor of history emeritus and codirector of the center for the American West at Stanford University and your moderator for this program. This program is being presented with the California Historical society. It is now my pleasure to introduce our distinguished guests, Richard White, also a professor of history at Stanford University and codirector at the bill lane center for the American West with me and the author of the new book railroaded the transcontinentals and the making of modern america. Richard is got to be more precise, the Margaret Byrne professor of history at stanford or he has been since 1998. He previously taught at the university of utah and the university of washington where he took
Mexico month author Richard White presents a history of the Transcontinental Railroad. You draws mexico, next author Richard White presented history of the Transcontinental Railroad. Welcome to the meeting of the Commonwealth Club. You can find us on the internet. I am David Kennedy, professor of history emeritus and codirector of the center for the American West at Stanford University and your moderator for this program. This program is being presented with the California Historical society. It is now my pleasure to introduce our distinguished guests, Richard White, also a professor of history at Stanford University and codirector at the bill lane center for the American West with me and the author of the new book railroaded the transcontinentals and the making of modern america. Richard is got to be more precise, the Margaret Byrne professor of history at stanford or he has been since 1998. He previously taught at the university of utah and the university of washington where he took
Mexico month author Richard White presents a history of the Transcontinental Railroad. You draws mexico, next author Richard White presented history of the Transcontinental Railroad. Welcome to the meeting of the Commonwealth Club. You can find us on the internet. I am David Kennedy, professor of history emeritus and codirector of the center for the American West at Stanford University and your moderator for this program. This program is being presented with the California Historical society. It is now my pleasure to introduce our distinguished guests, Richard White, also a professor of history at Stanford University and codirector at the bill lane center for the American West with me and the author of the new book railroaded the transcontinentals and the making of modern america. Richard is got to be more precise, the Margaret Byrne professor of history at stanford or he has been since 1998. He previously taught at the university of utah and the university of washington where he took
So i do think theres a conflict there, but i dont think hes like giving up the idea of a claim to some sort of absolute. I just dont know what it is. What about that quotation which each of us gave a version of it, didnt we . In my version, he says the white communitys entitled to prevail politically because for the time being, anyway, the leaders of American Civilization are white. So he isnt saying theyre destined to be the leaders because of their whiteness. Hes saying at the moment they just happen to be. Thats right. In the version i have he says not that the leaders are white but that the white race is for the time being the advanced race which is a slightly different statement to make, actually. Thats right. You know, and for the time being and that gets into this whole thing im talking about. Again, i think its kind of a fantasy that segregation could be used as a way of imposing superiors for a way for the negro to evolve or come up out of this backwardness. You know, i just i