This is about two hours. Good evening and welcome to our program, and Perfect Union has america lost its moral center . My name is david gibson. I am the director of the department of religion and culture here at fordham university. We are pleased to see you here this evening and to have coverage by our friends at cspan at this event tonight. So look sharp. Try to behave. Cell phones on mute. But do feel free to tweet the event as you like. Maybe even our resident will between eating the event at some point president will be tweeting the event at some point although it seems hes more involved another matters. We began to conceive of this Program Shortly after mr. Trump was elected last november on the Famous Campaign slogan make America Great again. And of course, we were taking something of a risk by having this program, because we were betting in the course of one year he would not in fact have achieved his goal, an achievement that would have made this evenings discussion moot. We c
Caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] \ next a discussion about morality and the united states. Mediahe focus on the news and voter decisionmaking. This is two hours. Good evening and welcome to our program, and Perfect Union has america lost its moral center . My name is david gibson. I am the director of the department of religion and culture here at fordham university. We are pleased to see you here this evening and to have coverage by our friends at cspan at this event tonight. So look sharp. Try to behave. Cell phones on mute. But do feel free to tweet the event as you like. Maybe even our resident will between eating the event at some point president will be tweeting the event at some point although it seems hes more involved another matters. We began to conceive of this Program Shortly after mr. Trump was elected last november on the Famous Campaign slogan make America Great again. And of course, we were taking something of a risk by having this program, because we we
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Today. We are missing one panelist who got sick last night and cannot make it, unfortunately. We are going to go in the order that we are sitting and 10 minutes each for a short presentation. This is a roundtable, and then we open up to discussion with you guys and the four of us. Ok. Hi, everybody. Can you hear me . Like this . Ok. Not in a creepy way . Like this . Better . Ok. I want to i want to thank everybody coming today. Im currently working on a book manuscript about egypt, the modern history of egypt. And it operates from a premise that the egyptian people are a people that protest. And that has been well documented over since the early 19th century. We have this notion of continuity in student protests over the long history of egypts modern history. However, the reason for protests often is different. And so, what i hope to talk about today is the student and worker protests of 1968, and really what i am interested in in egypt is the conservative in 1967. H takes hold a lot o
Now a look at west points Oral History Center. Lieutenant colonel david siri teaches history at the u. S. Military academy at west point and also is the director of west points Oral History Center. How long has the Oral History Center been associated with the academy . Its been associated with the academy since about 2007. Ive been the director since 2015, january. What is the value of an oral history . Well, for us, we try to make it accessible to the cadets say s. O. They can use it for their research, but, really, all of our videos, all of our interviews are open sourced so anyone in america can get online, look at our interviews and hopefully learn something about our history from them. Well, as a historian, as a professional historian, whats the place that oral histories hold in the overall study of history . Well, oral histories help add a lot of detail. For example, if youre writing a paper, a book about something, and you find some oral histories, that you can pull information