Explorers in the sort of interior west. So as i told you all last time, weve proceeding pretty chronologically up to this point. This lecture is going kind of spin us out onto a thematic topic. So were going to start right around Thomas Jefferson, who we left off talking about on monday, but were going to jump the way through forward to the usmexico war and the civil war. And so a lot of the topics were talking about today, theyre also going to come up in our future lectures. So just know that if you feel slightly unmoored when it comes to what time were in, im going to do my best to signpost, but just flag me down. Youre like, weve suddenly jumped 20 years. Thats going to happen today because its a more of a thematic topic. But what i really want us to get out of this is a deeper insight into this question. Weve been talking throughout the class, which is once you have an empire, how you exert control over it and how is the new us federal government, which we started to talk about on
Stockman tradition. Anyway, when i was growing up on small town montana, pretty rural and a community picnic, one time, the sole timer who was a homesteader. We back when was reminiscing about the family farm in wisconsin, and i asked how come he moved out to montana . And he said, well, there was free land out here and land was 20 an acre back in wisconsin. So he said he came out here for free land, which was the most expensive land he ever bought. So this panel was a dream of mine. Amy lauter is going to talk about the free land, socalled free land and i ive been looking for years and my search of 19th century illustrated stereotypes or stereotype ups of. And we have a panelist today who has figured out how to get a handle on that, which i never did. And so im excited about that as well. Hes our second presenter. The john coward our third presenter is the foremost authority on images of Indigenous People in the United States and we have that all tied up by somebody whos bringing the
Explorers in the sort of interior west. So as i told you all last time, weve proceeding pret up to this point. This lecture is going kind of spin us out onto a thematic topic. So were going to start right around Thomas Jefferson, who we left off talking about on monday, but were going to jump the way through forward to the usmexico war and the civil war. And so a lot of the topics were talking about today, theyre also going to come up in our future lectures. So just know that if you feel slightly unmoored when it comes to what time were in, im going to do my best to signpost, but just flag me down. Youre like, weve suddenly jumped 20 years. Thats going to happen today because its a more of a em really want us to get out of this is a deeper insight into this question. Weve been talking throughout the class,hi is once you have an empire, how you exert control over it and how is the new us federal government, which we started to talk about on monday, going to control the interior west is
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 the progressive error and things like that. I think this is a good start point. To think about who is claiming american
Together. Im grateful to have been and katrina and all of you for this wonderful most really full program and worthy of the David Stockman tradition. Anyway, when i was growing up on small town montana, pretty rural and a community picnic, one time, the sole timer who was a homesteader. We back when was reminiscing about the family farm in wisconsin, and i asked how come he moved out to montana . And he said, well, there was free land out here and land was 20 an acre back in wisconsin. So he said he came out here for free land, which was the most expensive land he ever bought. So this panel was a dream of mine. Amy lauter is going to talk about the free land, socalled free land and i ive been looking for years and my search of 19th century illustrated stereotypes or stereotype ups of. And we have a panelist today who has figured out how to get a handle on that, which i never did. And so im excited about that as well. Hes our second presenter. The john coward our third presenter is the