When we met. Riod i think we met last friday, we dealt with the new deal. We have talked about the economic and the political aspects of the Great Depression. But what i want to do today is to show that the Great Depression is a big event and has influences and consequences that go beyond just politics and go beyond just the stock market crash and the economic woes. And i am going to try to spend our time divided evenly among these three aspects of American Culture in the 1930s. How does it affect the family . And again, probably you do, and i do sometimes, think the family is just static throughout history. It never changes. But if you stop and think about it, even in American History, the nature of the family is going to change. And it is going to change rather dramatically in the 1930s. The role that religion plays in American History is going to vary from decade to decade. From different era to different era. And there is a Surprising Development in religion during the 1930s, which
University professor kroll abrams teaches a class on American Culture during the Great Depression. He describes changes to family life the role of religion and the rise of hollywood films. He also talks about new deal programs such as the civilian conservation corps and Social Security. This class is about 50 minutes. Prof. Abrams we have talked about big events in our survey of history, and they are obviously important. We have started our one in our last class, i think we met last friday, we dealt with the new deal. We have talked about the economic and political aspects of the Great Depression. But what i want to do today is to show that the Great Depression is a big event and has influences and consequences that go beyond just politics and the stock market crash. I will try to spend our time divided evenly among these three aspects of American Culture in the 1930s. How does it affect the family . And again probably you and i think the family is just static throughout history. Never
The lives and careers of several family members including Grover Cleveland Vice President Adlai Stevenson and twotime democratic democratic illinois governor Adlai Stevenson second. This originally aired in 1996 and its about an hour. Cspan jean h. Baker, author of the stevensons a biography of an american family, whats the scope of this book . Guest well, its pretty broad and its a long book but it covers a lot of stevenson generations. And it also focuses on the most important, in some ways, of all the stevensons. And thats Adlai Ewing Stevenson ii, who lived from 1900 to 1965 and, of course, was the losing democratic president ial candidate in 1952 and 1956. It took me a long time to do and i really was trying hard to look at layers of stevensons and different views of family life, etc. , and not only do just a political biography of some of the best known stevensons. Cspan did you ever meet any of them . Guest yes, i did. The most prominent stevensons that i met were Adlai Stevenso
In the meticulously researched book, “Politicizing the Bible,” research historians Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker dig deep into the Middle Ages and Renaissance to show that Christendom’s long term apostasy began with the appropriation, deconstruction and paganization of scripture by politically motivated interpreters. Among them were early Popes, Machiavelli, Marsilio of Padua, Henry VIII, Thomas Hobbes, and Descartes and Spinoza, who sought an empire of science.