What they saw in America Alexis de tocqueville, max weber, g. K. Chesterton and sayyid qutb. I especially look forward to this discussion as dr. Nolans insights will help us wrap up a yearlong study at the Mcconnell Center on American Political Culture inspired by toekvilles democracy in america. He holds a masters in doctoral degrees from the university of virginia. His teaching and Research Interests fall within the general areas of law and society, culture, technology and social change and historical comparative sociology. He is the recipient of several grants and awards including the National Endowments for the humanities fellow ships and a full bright scholarship. We look forward to dr. Williams pardon, dr. Nolans engaging discussion this evening on dark strands and bright threads what they is a new america. Dr. Nolan has agreed to take questions from the audience following his remarks. Please wait for one of our mcconnell scholars to bring you the microphone when youre asking you
Something he needed help with. It had been started early in 2001. Its an idea that really came from laura bush. She asked Jim Billington around the time of the inauguration in 2001, whether or not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she had started in texas. He said there isnt yet but there will be. So i came up with the idea of how to put together a National Book festival. The idea was to do to the mall and a series of tents that was set up for the first year. It turned out that any sponsorships that were going to be more difficult than they thought it would be. He asked me if i would get involved and i told him i would do to and i began to be a sponsor and the cochair of the event. Ten years or so. Its very important to me that i enjoyed a great deep deal. Its a great gift for the country. As you know we get about 200,000 people come to the day of the festival every year. This year is going to be liberty weekend the saturday of labor day weekend. See map first of
California. Tell us about your school and your students. I am fortunate to be able to teach a population that is almost entirely firstgeneration american. Bilingual coming into their english language skills. Teach students who want to learn. Immigrant children love learning. Their parents are super invested. I get to be the guide to teach them about those connections to American History and World History and the government and help them see their place within this country that sometimes does not always treat them as part of it. You said you were moving in the coming fall. Taught in the past . I was the only history teacher so i ran the whole gamut of World History, u. S. History, and government and this year entirely on government. When you say focused on government, one of the topics that class covers . I am fortunate to get the whole year of government. We get to go over the branches, the functions of government, all the Different Levels but i get to have the time to talk about media