We have been spending the week with an Amazing Group of educators from all over the country brought together under the auspices of the gulder Lehrman Institute of Early American History. This is generously supported by the Library Company of philadelphia and the pew center for arts and heritage. We spent the week tossing around ideas about how we might redraw Early American History. We tried to do that by suggesting one productive way of redrawing that history is to think in terms of a complicated and ever shifting set of contests among three sets of actors. Three sets of actors we call native people, settler colonists, and european empires. It is probably obvious to folks what we mean when we think about native peoples, although it should not be that obvious, except to stress it is a plural term. We are talking about many different peoples who have many different histories and are constantly in historical motion. European empires may be obvious, but once again it is a plural term. We
Suggesting one productive way of redrawing that history is to think in terms of a complicated and ever shifting set of contests among three sets of actors. Three sets of actors we call native people, settler colonists, and european empires. Obvious to folks what we mean when we think about native peoples, although it should not be that obvious, except to stress it is a plural term. We it is a complicated set of things. We have also been talking about the technical use of the term settler and settler colonists. I wonder if i might embarrass somebody in our room among these wonderful teachers to try to take a crack at defining what we mean by settler colonists in this threepart mix. Theory the settlers believed the land they arrive to belonged to them and not the native people so they had a right to be on that land and the native people could be erased. Right, and that is a historical product. There may be some people who came to north america from europe or elsewhere with the idea in th
Hello. Im here in philadelphia, at the Gilder Lehrman study for american studies of the university of pennsylvania. Ive spent the week with an Amazing Group of educators from all over the, country brought together under the auspices of the Gilder Lehrman institute of American History. This has been supported by the Labor Company of philadelphia and the pugh center for arts and heritage, through their program, redrawn, history indigenous and colonial perspectives on america. We spent some time talking about how we might redraw early American History. We try to do that by suggesting that one productive way redrawing that history is to think in terms of a complicated and ever shifting set of contests among the three sets of actors, three sets of actors we have called native peoples, settlers or settler colonists, and european empires. Now, it is probably obvious to folks what we mean when we think about native peoples, although it should not be that obvious except to stress that it is a p
This is generously supported by the Library Company of philadelphia and the pew center for arts and heritage. We spent the week tossing around ideas about how we might redraw Early American History. We tried to do that by suggesting one productive way of redrawing that history is to think in terms of a complicated and ever shifting set of contests among three sets of actors. Three sets of actors we call native people, settler colonists, and european empires. It is probably obvious to folks what we mean when we think about native peoples, although it should not be that obvious, except to stress it is a plural term. We are talking about many different peoples who have many different histories and are constantly in historical motion. European empires may be obvious, but once again it is a plural term. We are talking about the french, the dutch, the spanish, the english, and occasionally some other powers. Those empires were in motion. Theyre being created in the period we are talking abou
the funeral was no different. 2,000 voices felling westminster with the lord is my shepherd said to be the queen s favorite song, at her wedding, also here 75 years ago. the archbishop of canterbury invoking another song and another bridge from past to present. her late majesty s broadcast during covid lockdown ended with we will meet again. words of hope from a song of vera lynn. christian hope means certain expectation of something not yet seen. we can all share the queen s hope which in life and death inspired her servant leadership. service in life, hope in death. all who follow the queen s example and inspiration of trust and faith in god can with her say, we will meet again. the funeral ended with a simple incantation and buglers blowing the last post the british counterpart to taps. the father, the son, and the holy spirit be among you and remain with you always. amen. there followed two minutes of silence throughout the country and commonwealth. bi