For president ronald reagan, barack obama talks about the workings of the presidency including history making he witnessed exploring the american story. What American History tv saturday on cspan2 and find a full schedule on the Program Guide a lot anytime online at cspan. Org history. Alumni is to was professor of history at u of a and earned a phd at the university of colorado and a story we hear going to colorado to study the history of american self but they dont do that at the university of colorado so he went on to become one of the leading scholars of the American West. Hes written nine books including the last indian war, the essentialor west in one prizes including the western Historical Association and the society of american historians in the organization of american historians. Those of you who have been in class with him though hes an outstanding teacher and recognized with the Achievement Award arkansas professor of the year the carnegieit foundation d a finalist for the
Feeley. Your panel topic is the same as the book on which you collaborated. When private talk goes public. How do you define gossip . That is a big question. Many scholars would say there is no airtight cold truly perfect definition of gossip. It varies across different fields and domains. We decided to define gossip as private talk. Talk about peoples her pharrell personal lives aired privately. If you dont think that boundary should be crossed and private information shouldnt be made public, you would see gossip and eight at in a negative light. If you think it is good, building communities, learning about what is right and wrong and how to behave, you could have a different definition of gossip, seeing it as positive. It can be positive or negative but it is that idea that it is private personal information aired in public. Is this a matter of semantics . Is it the word gossip itself, or is this the kind of material that historians have always looked for . Prof. Feeley we have alway