Isnt a lot of great books on George Washington and native american peoples, particularly one that bring out the full perspective of native american groups as well as they could, particularly reflecting the latest literature, which has been transformed in the last 30 years and more. Professor calloway has been one of the people leading the transformation in the way that american historians have come to understand the challenge of incorporating native American History into American History. He is currently professor of history and professor of native american studies at dartmouth. Fromceived his ba and phd the university of leeds, which means he is an englishman studying native American History in the 70s in england, an extraordinary story in and of itself. To the United States, he taught high school for a few years in springfield, vermont. He served for 2 years as associate director of the center for the study for the history of American Indians at the Newberry Library in chicago, which
Can see how smart you really are. Tonight borders is pleased to welcome mike mullane. The firstckets is book by Space Shuttle astronaut to talk about his experiences for adult audiences. Unlike prior astronaut looks which tend to be g rated, technical and sanitized, his story is refreshingly human and candid. Mullane becomes the story of an amazing dreams quest. Mullane was commissioned into the usa apps. The firstected as group of Space Shuttle astronauts. He currently lives in albuquerque, new mexico. Please give a warm borders welcome to mike mullane. [applause] mullane thank you very much, and good evening. I thought i would start by explaining what a shuttle launches like. Launch is like. I will read from a few passages, but extemporaneously i want to describe to you what its like to blast off into space. Was iequently asked, afraid sitting on that launchpad. And i replied, no. I was not afraid. I was terrified. It goes beyond being afraid, folks. Unlike a fighter jet where you ar
Just as feverishly as our public follows our contemporary celebrities. And it was given as a gift by a wealthy industrialist to an orthopedic surgeon. So you see the handle youve been watching a preview of our weekly j alf hour american artifacts program. Visit cspan. Org history for Schedule Information and to view entire programs online. The deadline for the cspan student cam video competition is tuesday. So get your entries completed now. Produce a five to sevenminute documentary on the theme the three branches and you for your chance to win the grand prize of 5,000. For a list of rules go to studentcam. Org. Up next on American History tv, a panel of his torials talk about Race Relations in ferguson and develops methods about protest. They also examine how policing pe . And the criminal justice has historically related to racial conflict. This session about the Associations Annual meeting is about two hours. ,uq . zw good morning, everyone. My name is khalil mohammed. I am going to
Training will remain a component of any adequate system of military security until such time as the United Nations have established an International Police force with adequate powers and without weakening limitations. [ applause ]. Up next on American History tv, a panel of history ans talk about Race Relations in ferguson and develops methods about protest. They also examine how policing and the criminal justice has related to this top. The annual meeting is about two hours. Good morning everybody. My name is khalil mohammed. I am filling in as your chair. Thomas came down with a terrible stomach bug and is not able to be with us today. So we all will miss him terribly and i know many of you who came to see and hear tom participate in in discussion are also disappointed. But we wish him we wish him well and we will proceed in his absence. Because there are a couple of housekeeping things, including a note i just received. Let me get it out of the way before i forget it. The hash tag f
Reasons. We ask all of you to be active participants in tweeting. In toms place, let me Say Something i think he might have wanted to say about the importance of race and space and the importance of the ways in which policing have defined the spaces propriety of citizenship, in the United States of america. Ferguson brings us here. Ferguson is just a metaphor for an ongoing history that the state forces, that the white citizens that sees white citizens and class as the defining marker for the ways in which race continues to be made in the united dates of america. That said, i want to thank jim grossman from the American Historical Association for encouraging panels like this that link the past, present, and future. We all know as members of this august association that the American Historical Association has not always been responsive to contemporary moments and sometimes has been on the wrong side of history. We want to applaud the leadership in this moment for allowing us to come tog