Of the story we are telling. The 1890s becomes a distinct beginning of the way american thinks of itself in the world in a very different way. If you want to understand the 20th century. If you want to understand the role that the United States assumes and plays in the country, the 1890s is the place to start, because the transformation that you see among the people and their attitudes in the 1890s is little short of kind of amazing. Remember this. Remember that as far back as you want to go in American History, the idea has been that the United States, and before that the american colonies. We are over here and the rest of the world is the rest of the world. There is this purposeful sense that we are us, and the rest of the world can do whatever it wants, whatever it takes, whatever it is going to do, it will not affect us. I am sort of dancing around the words isolation, because that has got a lot of baggage around it. But that is part of it. That we were and isolated country. Or if
What does it mean. For today, we are going to be talking about what did freedom mean and in particular, what did freedom mean to the free people . In january of 1865, the secretary of war Edward Stanton and Union General William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah georgia. They were preachers, pastors, late Church Leaders and they wanted to find out from these preachers basically what is it that free people wanted from freedom . What did they expect . Particularly, what did they expect in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation . The group of 20 people whose ostensibly rebranded of of free black folks and the community selected garrison frazier, a 67 year old man to be the representative of the community. To speak for them. General sherman asked them, or asked him, basically what did he understand freedom to me especially in light of the emancipation proclamation . He said basically taking us from under the yoke of bondage and placing us where we can reach the po
applause thank you it is great to see such a robust crowd and energetic crowd, i have been a fan of them since inception, ten years ago i moderated my first about Climate Change so im happy to be back, im happy to introduce errol conway hes a historian of science and technology and the eco author merchants of doubt how a handful of scientists obscure the truth about tobacco smoke and global warming. Then we have the director of science and Society Research at the pm resort center and she offers reports about the public trust in science including views ranging from energy and climate to vaccines and gene and last but not least we have jeff from usc l. A. , hes a sociologist, he said he is why people care about what they care about and how moral concern relates to issues of science and religion, and went to john brian we are gathered this week during the anniversary of humankinds scientific achievements, you cant escape, the apollo moon landing to discuss this issue of whether and why am
Editor, please give a warm welcome to our our guest. applause thank you it is great to see such a robust crowd and energetic crowd, i have been a fan of them since inception, ten years ago i moderated my first about Climate Change so im happy to be back, im happy to introduce errol conway hes a historian of science and technology and the eco author merchants of doubt how a handful of scientists obscure the truth about tobacco smoke and global warming. Then we have the director of science and Society Research at the pm resort center and she offers reports about the public trust in science including views ranging from energy and climate to vaccines and gene and last but not least we have jeff from usc l. A. , hes a sociologist, he said he is why people care about what they care about and how moral concern relates to issues of science and religion, and went to john brian we are gathered this week during the anniversary of humankinds scientific achievements, you cant escape, the apollo moo