A good way. But to make sure that we have adequate time for everyone. So when you get to five minutes left, i have a fiveminute card and i will lay it up so you can see it and then three minutes and one minute so you can see where you are. So we have time for everyone. Im going to introduce each panelist as they come forward, because i found if you introduce them all at once people forget who they are. So i will begin with our first panelist who is john f. Polk. He received his ph. D. In mathematics from the the university of delaware in 1979. He served three years in the army, including a tour in vietnam. He is retired from a 45year career as a scientist and Senior Adviser of International Research collaboration at the u. S. Army research laboratory, aberdeen proving ground, maryland. He is currently the clan historian for clan pollock international and publishes short articles on Family History in the clan news letter. He has published two backs on historical topics, beyond damned qu
Professor james campbell. James campbell is the ed grebe robinson professor of United States history at stanford university. s research focuses on american and africanAmerican History as well as the broader history of the blackplanet. He is also interested in problems of historical memory or the ways that society tells stories about their past, not only in textbooks but scholarly monographs and also historic sites, museums, memorials, movies and political movements. His publications include songs of zion, the africanamerican Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and south africa raise nation and empire in American History and middle passages africanamerican journeys. He is currently completing a book on the history and memory of the 1964 mississippi summer project and he is certainly one of our most distinguished historians here at stanford, please welcome james campbell. [ applause ] thank you very much for those remarks. One of the problems teaching at a place like this is
Power and what kind of spaces and values would define the country. Remained very much in question. And so last class we talked about americas transition to capitalism. And we talked about how this Economic Transformation was linked to changes in the labor market in Banking Systems in the rise of corporations, and we looked at how these transformations were particularly affecting for young women like mary paul the worker in the lowell mills in the 1840s. So today were going to continue our conversation about how economic changes affected americas urban centers its cities and well examine how questions about the National Built Environment and access to Material Resources like goods land and money came to a head in americas growing urban landscapes both along the east coast in places that are familiar to us, but also in growing midwestern cities between the 1790s and into the 1830s so with these themes in mind i thought we could start off today with a little bit of a comparative story tha
Power and what kind of spaces and values would define the country. Remained very much in question. And so last class we talked about americas transition to capitalism. And we talked about how this Economic Transformation was linked to changes in the labor market in Banking Systems in the rise of corporations, and we looked at how these transformations were particularly affecting for young women like mary paul the worker in the lowell mills in the 1840s. So today were going to continue our conversation about how economic changes affected americas urban centers its cities and well examine how questions about the National Built Environment and access to Material Resources like goods land and money came to a head in americas growing urban landscapes both along the east coast in places that are familiar to us, but also in growing midwestern cities between the 1790s and into the 1830s so with these themes in mind i thought we could start off today with a little bit of a comparative story tha
Good afternoon. There are lots of seats in the front and im told one of the seats as tickets underneath it so you need to sit in the front to get the tickets. [laughter] [inaudible conversations] for those that are faculty, give everybody a couple more minutes to just grab a seat. Im the executive dean for administration and finance at the school of engineering and Applied Sciences. In my six years on the institutes of Higher Education is my pleasure to welcome you to this afternoons session and its my honor to introduce the presenter and speaker. Already i started off bad. Associate dean for Academic Affairs and professor ofca education. After receiving his bachelor of arts, he spent the first ten years of his career as a High School Social studies teacher in maryland, california and casablanca morocco. His phd from the university of california berkeley in 2012 and 2013 he received a u. S. State Department Fulbright award to the university of cape town south africa and shes published