With the second half of our semester one of the Big Questions were picking up on is what does it mean to be an american . All right who can claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of . Take us through the end of our semester into as we deal with the 19th century. So in upcoming weeks were going to talk about, you know, immigrants. Were going to talk about kind of the progressive error and things like that. I think this is a good start point. To think about who is claiming american status. And what does that mean . So were going to build from some of the ideas. We talked about with manifest destiny. From the discussion of Political Violence and build into these are other things. Couple key concepts that we need to deal with first of all a settler colonialism. Have you heard that phrase before . I see a couple yeses and a couple knows some heads kind of bobbing every which way, okay when we talk about settler colonialism, let me give you kind of a gen
With the second half of our semester one of the Big Questions were picking up on is what does it mean to be an american . All right who can claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of . Take us through the end of our semester into as we deal with the 19th century. So in upcoming weeks were going to talk about, you know, immigrants. Were going to talk about kind of the progressive error and things like that. I think this is a good start point. To think about who is claiming american status. And what does that mean . So were going to build from some of the ideas. We talked about with manifest destiny. From the discussion of Political Violence and build into these are other things. Couple key concepts that we need to deal with first of all a settler colonialism. Have you heard that phrase before . I see a couple yeses and a couple knows some heads kind of bobbing every which way, okay when we talk about settler colonialism, let me give you kind of a gen
Were thrilled that cspans book tv viewers are also joining us so welcome. Cspan will be herent throughout the day recording the events throughout the day. This stage has a long history of being one of the festivals most popular stages. Today youll be hearing from authors who delve deeply into the role women played in the civil rights movement, the improbable history of americas relationship with the bald eagle. A more complete accounting of the mexican revolution, and the strange history behind this search for the source of the nile river. Th the new bog fio of jim thorp. Please sit back, enjoy, and have a wonderful day at the library of Congress National book festival. The success of American Life and what it takes and what it costs. The second was robert clemente. He really was in the way he lived his life and the way he died delivering humanitarian aid to nicaragua. Quite the fast lead to explore the native american lead. Maybe in 1953 whereas you point out very important in the his
Gonna use that as as a way to link. Kind of wars throughout the 19th century all the way up to it including the spanishamerican war so our focus is were kind of around that. Were thinking more kind of legal policy and issues and and such so the goal is to think in that broad 19th century way so our start point is a couple key things we need to kind of deal with the second half of our semester one of the Big Questions were picking up on is what does it mean to be an american . All right who can claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of . Take us through the end of our semester into as we deal with the 19th century. So in upcoming weeks were going to talk about, you know, immigrants. Were going to talk about kind of the progressive error and things like that. I think this is a good start point. To think about who is claiming american status. And what does that mean . So were going to build from some of the ideas. We talked about with manifest destiny
Broad 19th century way. So, our start point is a couple key things we need to kind of deal with. The second half of our semester, one of the Big Questions we are picking up on is, what does it mean to be an american . All right, who cannot claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of take us through the end of our semester into, as we deal with the 19th century. So, in the upcoming weeks, we will talk about, you know, immigrants, we will talk about kind of the progressive era, things like that. But i think this is a good start point to think about who is claiming american status and what does that mean. So, we are going to build from some of the ideas we talked about with the manifest destiny. Some of the discussion of Political Violence and build into these other things. A couple key concepts that we need to deal with, first of, all its settler colonialism. Have you heard that phrase before . I see a couple of yes and a couple of knows. Some hands he