15 years ago in is your mike on . There we go. Thank you. Theres a switch on the mikes. 15 years ago in a journal of American History article, john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted,lin religions continue importance contains analysis. In political history religion has retained in butlers e voktive term, a jack in the box. Left to pop up occasionally rather than systematically. Today our round table will address how religion matters in american political history and well do so in three ways. First ill each each panelist to focus on a way in which religion matters. That is in their own research how religion plays a role and in spaces they are working on but also how centering religion gives us a different narrative, a different story than if it were on the periphery. Second well talk about butlers provocati provocation. Why have political historians remain reluctant bystanders about religion in American History and why do
Super storm sandy so long how it was that new york had failed to issued evacuation orders and how it was that 70 buildings and key pieces of infrastructure were flooded. During that storm. In the meteorologist there who were incredibly talented cap time in the same thing over and over again. We are just not very good at forecasting in predicting it. For the kind of havoc that is erect by these storms. We saw that in 2017 with hurricane maria. In thinking about the infrastructure and predictions and how it is that we respond to Natural Disaster it occurred to me that for all that is powerful about a hurricane they are no no where near nowhere near our most powerful phenomenon. Earthquakes are stronger and so i started to think how do we prepare for those sorts of Natural Disasters. As a nature and nation. When you think about that. We have the Air National Guard and is capable of flying these into the storm. It will drop the little technology pieces. With all of the technology we can tr
In world war ii. Rachel peerson, a physician offers her opinions in no apparent distress. Watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv on cspan 2. So i was just biding my time, waiting and then a friend of mine was into youtube and youtube management. Youtube in 2010 and the arab world was stuff we see from other people. We didnt have original arabic content. We didnt have anything originally made for youtube so pits and pieces taken from televisions and other countries and he said, like, why dont we he wanted to produce the original content and he came to me in 2010 and he said, why dont you write something . And he came to me pause first of all im his friend and i would do it for the second. He said according to him, i had a way with people and people like tost. And i decided to do so at that time politics was like, you cannot do political satire so i choose something else, religion, and. [laughter] so, i came up with this idea. It was called searching for a god. And i
In world war ii. Rachel peerson, a physician offers her opinions in no apparent distress. Watch for many of the authors in the near future on book tv on cspan 2. So i was just biding my time, waiting and then a friend of mine was into youtube and youtube management. Youtube in 2010 and the arab world was stuff we see from other people. We didnt have original arabic content. We didnt have anything originally made for youtube so pits and pieces taken from televisions and other countries and he said, like, why dont we he wanted to produce the original content and he came to me in 2010 and he said, why dont you write something . And he came to me pause first of all im his friend and i would do it for the second. He said according to him, i had a way with people and people like tost. And i decided to do so at that time politics was like, you cannot do political satire so i choose something else, religion, and. [laughter] so, i came up with this idea. It was called searching for a god. And i
And not even knowing their five senses had limits. If its everything you know you think its everything the universe but try to give you but in fact, its not. And so around 160 1600 was inven of the microscope, one direction, and the telescope in the other direction. Each event it was a decade of one another. All of a sudden pieces of the universe, available to us that transcend our senses. Effectively, look inside a drop of pond water and see microorganisms just like just like doing the backstroke. Youre on a brain sentry could not detected were it not for the microscope. You say doesnt make sense that you have entire living creatures inside of a drop of water. Today we know that because we learned from childhood but in the day it may docents at all. He had communication with the royal academy, Royal Society in london, which is what you would normally do when you make a discovery. They thought he was drinking too much. Write another letter and then we can continue our scientific conver