For a longer piece. It is an extraordinary watershed, historical moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. We did achieve some racial progress. We had black elected officials. 1500 we had a freedmens bureau. We had the creation of black churches and Public Schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 1880s and 1890s. And we did it through racial violence and public policy. Our second reconstruction is the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1965. When we think about Public School desegregation and the Voting Rights act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There was again racial progress, but that was really quickly closed off when we think about 1968. The assassination of Martin Luther king jr. , the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, the assassination of malcolm x. Now, we have another effort. In
Susan dr. Peniel joseph, you and i planned this interview three months back, but we got sideways with the covid lockdown. As a historian, how are you processing this time this country is going through . Prof. Joseph i have been writing a lot, both opeds in for a longer piece. It is extraordinary watershed moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. We did achieve some racial progress. We had 15 black elected officials. We had a freedmens bureau. We had the creation of black churches and Public Schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 1880s and 1890s. We did it through racial violence and public policy. Our second reconstruction is the Civil Rights Movement between 1954 and 1965. When we think about Public School desegregation and the Voting Rights act and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bute wa
Chris bunin. He shows how Geographic Information systems can be used to trace the source and map the spread of diseases throughout history, including cholera, smallpox, and aids. He coauthored the book jamestown to appomattox mapping u. S. History with gis. I am so excited to be here with you. I am joining you from nelson county, virginia just outside of our Albemarle County this is my School Campus where i teach geography, oral history, and geospatial technologies a stones throw away from the border of charlottesville, virginia. If you would like to follow along with some of the links i am sharing today, if you go to this bitly, it is not a perfect alignment to this keynote. I had all the intentions for it to line up perfectly and my children running upstairs had different ideas. I was asked to give this keynote. I said, lets see, i wonder if anyone in this audience knows what gis is. Part one will be a crash course on gis and the power of the geographic inquiry model. Two, we look at
On board. No word yet if they survived or on the cause of the crash. In santa cruz county, warning signs posted after a shark attack at sand dollar beach. Images just coming in show crews at the scene, the ap reporting a server was killed. The attack happened within 100 yards of the shoreline. Sheriffs deputies are asking people to avoid the area and avoid the water. Tesla ceo, elon musk, made a bold threat today, tweeting he will move tesla headquarters out of fremont and the state. Today, tesla filed a lawsuit against Alameda County for stopping the fremont plant from reopening. Live in fremont with reaction. Reporter here is a copy of that lawsuit against Alameda County from tesla. Frankly the bigger concern is the tweet to move tesla headquarters out of fremont, keep in mind tesla is one of the biggest employers in this region employing at least 14,000 workers. Theres a lot of attention on his tweet and a lot of concerns. I brought it to fremont i brought it to Alameda County i wor
To trace the source and map the spread of diseases throughout history, including cholera, smallpox, and aids. I am so excited to be here with you. I am joining you from virginia outside of albemarle county. This is my School Campus where i teach geography, oral history, and geospatial technologies a stones throw away from the border of charlottesville, virginia. If you would like to follow along with some of the links i am sharing today, if you go to a perfect, it is not alignment to this keynote. I had all the intentions for it pp perfectly and to line u perfectly and my children running upstairs had different ideas. I was asked to give this keynote. Ifaid, lets see, i wonder anyone in this audience knows what gis is. Part one will be a crash course on gis and the power of the geographic inquiry model. Two, we look at how we can use gis and geographic inquiry to teach medical geography historically and can temporarily. We will then discuss how we can use gis to support your students a