Political history where were all talking about history and how its going to be taught and talked about and consumed over the years. This krrchs is sponsored by the department of history here at Purdue University and is organized by one of our panelists, katie burnell. Thank you, katie, and nikki hemm hemmer. My name is connie doebele. 50,000 hours of american politica history in their classrooms and in their research. We do some other things, but thats what were concentrating on at this conference. I tweet at cjdoebele and the center tweets centerforcspan. We would be interested in following you as we reach out to specifically history professors throughout the country who are interested in using the cspan archives in their classroom and in their research. So we have three excellent panelist panelists that all have different areas of interest under this topic. Theyre going to speak for five to seven minutes and then take a lot of q a. Were going to start with Margaret Omeara. I hate to
Investors seemingly optimistic that the worst of the economic distress has peaked as states continue to reopen across the country. Meantime, disney presenting its plans to reopen disney world in florida on july 11. We spoke with Disney Ceo Bob Chapek. Disney shares ending slightly up. I want to bring in abigail doolittle, who has been watching all the moves today. What happened today . Abigail this year has been all about volatility. Earlier this year, that huge plunge. We had the huge rebound rally. Earlier at one point, the nasdaq down more than 1 , the faang index down for percent. On the close, looking at green, but with notable divergences. The rotation onto some of the beatendown areas. Take a look at that faang index. Down day, down about 0. 6 . Rising tensions with china, around hong kong, the china index down about 1. 2 . Interesting divergences on the day. Theof this does speak to volatility i was mentioning. Nasdaq,or the relatively elevated, the key 30 level. But nonetheles
Get into this and discuss this whole issue of how history will be taught in the future. Im the managing director for center of cspan scholarship and engagement, a fairly newentity in the brian lamp school at school here at purdue and we use the cspan archives which is now over 250,000 hours of american political history in their classrooms and research. We do other things but thats what were concentrating on at this conference. I tweet at cj dubly and the center at center for cspan. We hope you will follow us on that and wed be interested in following you as we reach out to specifically history professors across the country who were interested in using the cspan archives in their classrooms and in their research. So heres what were going to do today. We have three excellent panelists with different areas of interest under this topic. Theyre going to speak for five to seven minutes and then were going to open it up and take a lot of q a. Were going to start with margaret omara. Now i ha
Teaches a class on the progressive era. She talks about how politicians and reform groups in the early 20th century attempted to improve social and Economic Conditions. Our goal today is to think about what progressivism was and to think about what i think its core dialectic was, the tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive era believed were important, and they believed they were not incompatible, but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. Again, throughout class today, be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century is, what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled, in search of progressivism, which i think aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around, knowing that the progressive era existed but quibbling about what counted as progressivism, who c
Progressivism less and to think about what i think its core dialect guy dialectic was. The tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds and the progressive era believed were important, and they believed they were not incompatible but you can see in some ways in which they were fundamentally add some tension. Throughout class today, well be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. The central question for this historians of the early at 20 century is what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled in search of progressivism, which i think aptly summed up the way historians were rummaging around knowing the progressive era existed but quibbleing about what counted as progressive severe them and who counted and when it started and when it ended. Some people limit only to the Political Party that it was named for. Others to find it much more broadly. For me, in this class, this is