Midwest community where howard hu and his team are discovering environmental dangers unearthed from over 60 years of mining. But dangerous exposures are found everywhere. In new yorks inner city robin whyatt is researching the effects some common household chemicals may be having on us and our children. Two studies in two very different places both measuring hazardous exposures, provide a better understanding of the unseen risks that we all take every day and the consequences those risks have on our health. Located in the far northeastern corner of oklahoma the town of picher has a unique landscape. Just steps away from homes schools, and playgrounds sit manmade mountains. Since the turnf the last century through the 1970s, the abundant underground resources of lead and zinc ore were mined to supply among other things material for ammunition used during world war ii. But along with the lead and zinc came tons of mining waste, creating these mounds, called chat piles, that have always b
And recovery. The morning. Good morning. Welcome to our panel on columbia burning a sesquicentennial reappraisal. My name is don doyle. I will make a few introductory remarks. I want to thank robin waits for all they did to make this such a success. Not just this panel, but the entire event. I think it has been a wonderful example of how to commemorate a painful episode in this citys history. Thanks especially to jessica whose idea it was to do something for this commemoration. We met over lunch, and from there it grew. We partnered with Historic Columbia. Sponsoring this event also is the History Center at the university of South Carolina. Another contributor was the graduate school at the university of South Carolina. Think all of you for your help and support. We brought for scholars four scholars together. We are beating almost exactly at the time, 150 years ago, that the union troops were crossing the river and coming towards the city, toward that moment at 10 00 in the morning wh
I want to thank those for all they did to make this such a success. Not just this panel, but the entire event. I think it has been a wonderful example of how to commemorate a painful episode in this citys history. Thanks especially to jessica whose idea it was to do something for this commemoration. We met over lunch, and from there it grew. We partnered with Historic Columbia. Sponsoring this event also is the History Center at the university of South Carolina. Another contributor was the graduate school at the university of South Carolina. Thank all of you for your help and support. We brought four scholars together. We are meeting almost exactly at the time, 150 years ago, that the union troops were crossing the river and coming towards the city, toward that moment at 10 00 in the morning when the city was formerly surrendered. We are meeting right here on market street. I am not an expert on this event in civil war history. I have written a book on the civil war called the cause of
The northeast. So on the far left one of the earlier monopoly players was rex tugwell. He later joined fdrs cabinet but was also a teacher at columbia and in the center you have ernest angel who was a National Chairman of the aclu. He had been playing the game here in new york and his son roger angel is a writer for the new yorker if youre a great narrative sports journalism fan. Scott nearing plays the game, he was a professor at wharton who was involved in a very important Academic Freedom case. Some consider him to be the father of the green movement, so he was far ahead of his time on that one. He probably would have gotten a kick out of brooklyn. Art and delaware is a single tax colony where the arden, delaware, was frequented by upton sinclair, and his house in arden was called the jungleo which is a ridiculous pun because his book was called the jungle, and there was this salacious sex scandal that took place. It was played at wharton, harvard, it was played everywhere. So in 19
In the military because someone is looking at Something Else and they are making a decision based on their own understanding of race still anxiously part of this. So he is sent to the old west, this is 19 is there in the 1940s. Basically this is a moment where they are priding themselves over 100 years of being this really why university and here is kerry murphy and hes having the time of his life, he is dancing with white women, he is running on the track team and he even participates in a protest against Theodore Bilbo who was the fanatic segregationist to calm the cutest bear. I think that part of it was in 1944 and 1945. You know he is described by people as being arrogant, a loud talker, its not like you trying to keep a low profile. Hes like ,com,com ma i am here, im going to have the time of my life as a student at ole miss. Interestingly when James Meredith tries to integrate old men. Saying that they are fighting a battle but they have no idea that they lost and they have grea