And 20th century american history. She has won numerous awards including the teaching prize, the award in the humanities and the teaching award. She gave a talk at stanford and has appeared on cspan and National Public radio and her work has been featured on cnn. Com and the chronicle of higher education. The history is allisons first book and is featured on the National Public radio all Things Considered the public radio Show International and the show on sirius x. M. The book was selected as a New York Times book review editors editors choice, best book of 2014 night at San Francisco chronicle and a book of the week by the Times Higher Education in london. It was chosen as one of the best nonfiction books by blog authors in 2015. Please join me in welcoming allison hops to the national archives. [applause] thank you so much for such a lovely wonderful generes introduction. Thanks for inviting me to come to the national archives. Its such a pleasure being in a beautiful city with such
My sincere thanks to douglas for inviting me to come to the national archives. Its such a pleasure being in this beautiful city with such a rich history and thank you all so much for coming. I really appreciate it and im very eager to hear your questions and your comments. So let me begin with the inspiration behind this project. This project was inspired by a story that my aunt told me about a distant cousin who grew up on the south side of chicago in the 1930s. The story begins with a parade. The historic but. And parade, an annual parade that continues to this day. On isis lang summer morning in august, my cousin left from her bed to find the best spot to be at the parade. She joined the crowd that numbered in the thousands and she cheered as drum majors, baton twirlers and celebrities and convertibles passed by. She ran out to the floats to touch the parades anointed king and queen and caught the candy that the the participants toss to her. The parade was a south Side Institution a
Democracy or its ideals. Just wondering from critiquing american decisions, how did we do what mistakes we make and how would you do it differently . I dont have time to tell you all the mistakes that were made here. The basic problem has been not having a strategy, not having an idea and reacting. The arab uprising countess off guard here three months later what was our response . We still didnt have one. One year later, what do we want . Still dont have one. That goes on today. Pacific the u. S. Spends billions of dollars in egypt has been on the ground in all kinds of ways come the summer was share quite helpful to the country for decades and yet has managed to alienate and enrage every single constituency in the country. Somehow today, muslim brothers, revolutionary activist and human rights communities, the military that the u. S. Crucially bankrolled all feel betrayed and abridged by the United States because of the ways in which it is flawed, delayed we first overreacted to deve
In 1914, Elsie Roxborough was born into a wealthy, Black family in Detroit. But when she died in 1939, her death certificate listed her as white. Her life was rich, curious and at times, troubled, all while attempting a sort of high-wire-act of living multiple lives, between cities and names and races.