moderate and introduce these fantastic authors of these fantastic new books in urban politics and urban history. and so this is gonna be a roundtable discussion in which our four authors are going to give each of you a brief preview of their books. each of their books the the major questions they engage and then we re going to move to a roundtable discussion that i m going to moderate of questions for them about their individual work and collectively and then we re going to open it up for discussion from with everyone in the room. this is being broadcast live on c-span. so because of that we have the bright lights and we have microphones so that everyone out there can hear us and in if you do when we when i do open it up for discussion and what you do have a question and i you had asked that you go to the microphone in the middle of the room and and ask your question there and also introduce yourself and identify yourself and end your affiliation if you would like so that we
right. we ll go as in. all right. good afternoon, everyone. it s great to see you. i m margaret o meara. i m professor of history at the university of washington, and i m really excited to be here to moderate and introduce these fantastic authors of these fantastic new books in urban politics and urban history. and so this is gonna be a roundtable discussion in which our four authors are going to give each of you a brief preview of their books. each of their books the the major questions they engage and then we re going to move to a roundtable discussion that i m going to moderate of questions for them about their individual work and collectively and then we re going to open it up for discussion from with everyone in the room. this is being broadcast live on c-span. so because of that we have the bright lights and we have microphones so that everyone out there can hear us and in if you do when we when i do open it up for discussion and what you do have a question and i you ha
moderate and introduce these fantastic authors of these fantastic new books in urban politics and urban history. and so this is gonna be a roundtable discussion in which our four authors are going to give each of you a brief preview of their books. each of their books the the major questions they engage and then we re going to move to a roundtable discussion that i m going to moderate of questions for them about their individual work and collectively and then we re going to open it up for discussion from with everyone in the room. this is being broadcast live on c-span. so because of that we have the bright lights and we have microphones so that everyone out there can hear us and in if you do when we when i do open it up for discussion and what you do have a question and i you had asked that you go to the microphone in the middle of the room and and ask your question there and also introduce yourself and identify yourself and end your affiliation if you would like so that we
that s just he here so i would like to call this i would like to call this roundtable to order. okay, i ve always wanted to do that. hello everyone and welcome to our round table today constitutional history is political history. i m dr. yvonne pitts. i m an associate professor and i proudly call purdue s history department my home. i m affiliated with women s gender and sexuality studies american studies and critical. abilities, i m currently working on a project on transformations in jurisdictional authority during the american civil war. the timing for this round table is certainly propipitous propitious. excuse me. we wait with bated breath at least most of us in this room for a supreme court decisions that may well become the landmark decisions. we are teaching years from now. so before i introduce our panel, it would like to. thinkers with a special shout out. to dr. rachel sheldon and my colleague dr. katie brunell who organized this wonderful conference and round tabl
Todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today. I am going to just start up i talk a little bit about what how we kind of framed this panel and how we are hoping what we are hoping to accomplish. We have the roundtable intensely. We are each want to speak about 10 minutes. Just a few roof remarks about the literature on the 1970s and thinking about the 1970s and what this unique time means to us today. And then we would like to open it up for a lot of conversation both with each other and most importantly with the audience. So we will be sticking to a pretty tight time and hopefully having a lot of time for comp for conversation. One of the things we were thinking about was the central role of the idea of crisis in thinking about the 1970s, both in the contemporary clinical imagination of a time and also in historical scholarship. From watergate to the energy crisis, the urban crisis, a fiscal crisis, the rhetoric of the era is huge with extensive danger and hi