Up next on American History tv, historians discuss the effect of media and technology on politics. Topics include Silicon Valley, Artificial Intelligence and Cable Television. From purdue university, this is about 90 minutes from purdue university. So good morning and welcome to the Media Technology and state panel. This is part of a larger two day session called remaking american political history where were all talking about history and how its going to be taught and talked about and consumed over the years. This conference is sponsored by the department of history here at purdue university. It is organized by katie brunell. Thank you. And also by nicki hemmer and leah igor. Were thankful to all of them to get into this and discuss this whole issue of how history is going to be taught in the future. Were new in the brian lamb school of communication here and our goal is to help professors from across the country use the cspan archives which is now over 250,000 hours of american polit
We have the main engine start. Go fly like an eagle. Go. We are at the Flight Simulator building at purdue university. This is where a lot of things started in aviation. The Purdue Program was the first in the country to offer bachelors degrees to pilots in the mid1960s. Today, it continues to be one of the best, most finest flight programs in the country. We have so many people who have been so important. I can tell you that, going back to the beginning, some of the countrys most important figures Billy Mitchell, who was world war i commander of air forces trained to fly by purdue graduates. The first guy who got involved in flight from purdue was a guy named cliff. He graduated in 1908. His father sent him here from dayton, ohio. Paid outofstate tuition for his son to come here and learn about internal combustion engines. We had Great Research going on in mechanical engineering. By the time cliff left, he said he knew more about the engines. The plan was for him to go back to dayton
And talked about and consumed over the years. This conference is sponsored by the department of history at purdue university, is organized by one of our panelists. It is also by nikki. We are thankful to all of them to get into this and discuss how history is going to be taught in the future. My name is connie doebele. We are fairly new entity the, here at purdue, our goal is to help professors from across the country used the cspan archives, which is over 250,000 hours of american political history in their classrooms and in the research. We do some other things but thats what we are concentrating on at this conference. I tweet at c. J. Doubly we we hope that you will follow us. On twitter. We would be interested in following you as we reach out to, specifically history professors across the country who are interested in using the cspan archives in their classrooms and research. Here is what we are going to do, we have three excellent panelists who have different areas of interest und
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