An area called berkshire county. A pretty place that used to be isolated, surrounded by hills and mountains. Not big like the alps or our rockies but big enough to discourage traveling in the old days. Going west from boston, you had to head over the passes on the old mohawk trail. Then you got into an area maybe 20 miles wide and 50 miles long. Like a lot of new england towns, there are the traditional white houses and neat gardens and picket fences. That is the oldest house. Then there are the churches. And the town hall. The country around stockbridge has forest, farms, water in good supply. They tell me it is much like the lake country in england, including the writers to go along with the scenery. Hermann melville, the author of dick, live here. Lived here. In the summertime, the quiet of the town changes to a bustle of summer visitors, who come to enjoy the countryside, the theater, the ballet at jacobs pillow, and of course the concerts at tanglewood, where the boston symphony p
And Candace Mueller hard has several books like that about roosevelt, his trip to the amazon and another book about garfield, those are great books but also very entertaining. We want to hear what you are reading. Send your list via social media, booktv. The cspan city store is exploring the american story as we take a booktv and American History tv on the road with support from our spectrum Cable Partners this weekend we travel to indianapolis is coming up in the next hour learn about the citys Literary History and speak with local authors including from Robert F Kennedy in the indiana primary. 15 minutes we visit the home of the hoosier poet james riley and following that in 20 minutes travel with us to the Kurt Vonnegut museum and library. We begin our special feature with Robert F Kennedy in indianapolis. Could you lower those signs please . I have some very sad news for all of you. Martin luther king was shot and killed tonight. Martin luther king dedicated his life to love and ju
Pandemic, where were adjudicating. Is it more daycare or is it more about setting people up for college and Career Readiness . This expression of getting people prepared for whats ahead. And i always think were the transmitters of culture. We are the the the the kind of the guardians and stewards of like what happened before so that young people are equipped with, you know, who the way in the past. And thats why i think every class is in a way, a history class. And every class is in a way, an english class. So mark twain, right. He shows up as a time capsule. He shows up as this this figure here who everybodys heard about, even if you dont know anything about it. Right. And we conflate huck finn and tom sawyer, the really different stories. I wonder what you think as someone who engages with literature in the context of the history space. Now, you know, what does mark twain offer us the opportunity to do . You know, that allow us to engage in conversations and investigations that could
So what you think. Well, i think a lot about whats the purpose of Public Education at all. And i think about how weve had this kind of broad conversation during the recent years of the pandemic, where were adjudicating. Is it more daycare or is it more about setting people up for college and Career Readiness . This expression of getting people prepared for whats ahead. And i always think were the transmitters of culture. We are the the the the kind of the guardians and stewards of like what happened before so that young people are equipped with, you know, who the way in the past. And thats why i think every class is in a way, a history class. And every class is in a way, an english class. So mark twain, right. He shows up as a time capsule. He shows up as this this figure here who everybodys heard about, even if you dont know anything about it. Right. And we conflate huck finn and tom sawyer, the really different stories. I wonder what you think as someone who engages with literature i
About the postcivil war south. 1865 to 1900 and the postcivil war west, that same time frame. Todays topic is called the gilded age. Roughly again, postcivil war up to 1900. But this lecture is really about america becoming an Industrial Power industrialization is going to be the key to understanding whats going on in the postcivil war north. Okay, ill explain the title gilded age in a few minutes because it has roots here in our own state of missouri. But to talk about america becoming an Industrial Power, there are certain sets of conditions that we need for that process to occur. For example, if youre going to become an Industrial Power, you need to have an abundance of Mineral Resources. Coal. Iron ore. Copper, tin, zinc. All kinds of things such as that. And whats fortunate for the United States is that we are blessed with all of those materials in our own country. Weve got huge pockets of coal in western pennsylvania. Eastern kentucky. We have ore around lake michigan. We have le