She challenges the notion that the midwest is merely a collection of flyover states, s collections. On this talk is part of the fifth annual midwestern conference hosted by the helen stein center at granville university. Good morning. My name is eric. I am an associate professor of africanamerican studies and history at the university of illinois or vanish and pain. Urbana champaign. Ours my honor to introduce keynote speaker, my friend and colleague, dr. Kristin hoganson. She is professor of United States history at the university of illinois at urbana champaign. She specializes in the history of the United States, cultures of u. S. Imperialism, transnational history, and the midwest. Professor hoganson has enjoyed a productive and accomplished academic career sense achieving her phd in history from yale in 1995. Following graduate school, she taught at harvard for five years before accepting a position in history at the university of illinois. In terms of her professional service, sh
This program over the nationwide network cspan. Three, which is American History. The people are in attendance of this meeting today. Were in the how auditorium of the Boston Campus Marymount University in arlington virginia, just a very crusty from washington, d. C. These, are all James Madison fellows who were awarded a 24,000 graduate fellowship to study the us constitution. And theyve been attending a four week summer institute, the constitution here and theyre just about to conclude. So if you happen to be a teacher either middle school, high school, you teach government history or civics courses, and youre in our program. If you know someone that teaches courses, we encourage them. Visit our website, which is just James Madison dot gov and youll find about the opportunity to study under the James Madison fellowship. Now id like to turn the time over to the Foundation Director education, dr. Jeff morrison, who will introduce our guest speaker. Dr. Morrison. Well, you. Mr. Larson a
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