The first i guess is a little disturbing that it is a story leading up to the civil war when the nation was very clearly divided into two political camps. We live in a politically divided time, although i dont want to imply we are headed for civil war. I dont know what we are headed toward, but there is resonance in the way we have red and blue states today. There were northern and Southern States then that were fundamentally divided over this giant issue of slavery. There are other things. The 1840s and 1850s was a time of enormous technological and economic change. Particularly in the news media, the development of the telegraph came in 1834. Within a few years of the invention of the telegraph, cities east of the mississippi were connected and there was National Conversation which becomes part of the story i tell. It turns out these communication devices that were designed to bring people closer together drove them farther apart. They were horrified by what people on the others were
And political impulses caused americans to consider americans a larger role in the world for their nation. Professor smith details the actions they took such as pursuing missionary work, arguing for the expansion of the navy and searching for new economic markets. This is just over an hour and 10 minutes. What were going to do today is start something very new and very distinct in the evolution of the story were telling. The 1890s becomes a distinct beginning of the way america thinks of itself in the world. In a very different way. If you want to understand the 20th century, if you want to understand the role that the United States assumes for itself and plays in the 20th century, the 1890s is the place to start. Because the transformation, listen, the transformation that you see among the people and their attitudes in the 1890s is little short of kind of amazing. Remember this. Remember that as far as you want to go in American History, okay, the idea has been that the United States
Of the story we are telling. The 1890s becomes a distinct beginning of the way american thinks of itself in the world in a very different way. If you want to understand the 20th century. If you want to understand the role that the United States assumes and plays in the country, the 1890s is the place to start, because the transformation that you see among the people and their attitudes in the 1890s is little short of kind of amazing. Remember this. Remember that as far back as you want to go in American History, the idea has been that the United States, and before that the american colonies. We are over here and the rest of the world is the rest of the world. There is this purposeful sense that we are us, and the rest of the world can do whatever it wants, whatever it takes, whatever it is going to do, it will not affect us. I am sort of dancing around the words isolation, because that has got a lot of baggage around it. But that is part of it. That we were and isolated country. Or if
Up next on American History tv, historians discuss the effect of media and technology on politics. Topics include Silicon Valley, Artificial Intelligence and Cable Television. From purdue university, this is about 90 minutes from purdue university. So good morning and welcome to the Media Technology and state panel. This is part of a larger two day session called remaking american political history where were all talking about history and how its going to be taught and talked about and consumed over the years. This conference is sponsored by the department of history here at purdue university. It is organized by katie brunell. Thank you. And also by nicki hemmer and leah igor. Were thankful to all of them to get into this and discuss this whole issue of how history is going to be taught in the future. Were new in the brian lamb school of communication here and our goal is to help professors from across the country use the cspan archives which is now over 250,000 hours of american polit
And talked about and consumed over the years. This conference is sponsored by the department of history at purdue university, is organized by one of our panelists. It is also by nikki. We are thankful to all of them to get into this and discuss how history is going to be taught in the future. My name is connie doebele. We are fairly new entity the, here at purdue, our goal is to help professors from across the country used the cspan archives, which is over 250,000 hours of american political history in their classrooms and in the research. We do some other things but thats what we are concentrating on at this conference. I tweet at c. J. Doubly we we hope that you will follow us. On twitter. We would be interested in following you as we reach out to, specifically history professors across the country who are interested in using the cspan archives in their classrooms and research. Here is what we are going to do, we have three excellent panelists who have different areas of interest und