Me say how wonderful it is to see you all, you book lovers, here together in person for the First Time Since we gathered here last in 2019. [ applause ]. Host were thrilled that cspans become tv viewers are also joining us so welcome. [ applause ]. Host cspan will be here throughout the day reporting the events on this stage. This stage has a long history of being one of the festivals most popular stages. Today youll be hearing from authors who delve deeply in the role women played in the civil rights movement, the improbable history of americas relationship with bald eagle, a more complete accounting of the mexican revolution, and the strange history behind this search for the source of the nile river. And many other topics. You learn a lot here at the history and biography stage and hope youll visit us at the library of congress for subjects youre interested in to experience the beauty of the the opposite Jefferson Building or attend one of our live at the library events. On most thu
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. 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 coloni
Wars in this kind of lecture. Thats going to be in a couple of weeks. We are going to use that as a way to link kind of wars throughout the 19th century all the way up to, and including, the spanish american war. So, our focus is kind of around that. We are thinking more kind of legal policy and issues, 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 we are 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 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 ar
To the deaths of the people you can watch the full program and other programs of that u. S. President s on our website. Cspan. Org slash history. Were gonna start with our discussion of native americans this is one of two different discussions were having. Clear that we are not talking about the indian wars in this kind of lecture. Thats going to be in a couple of weeks. We are going to use that as a way to link kind of wars throughout the 19th century all the way up to, and including, the spanish american war. So, our focus is kind of around that. We are thinking more kind of legal policy and issues, 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 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 o
To start with our discussion of native americans. This is one of two different discussions. Were having i want to make clear that were not talking about the indian wars in this kind of lecture thats going to be in a couple weeks and were 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