Colorado, we were talking once and he said, you know, historians only ask one question. And i said, yeah . Whats going on here . So i nodded and said, okay, thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard a smart man say. But hes actually right. Its really the only question you ask, you go back to this earlier time, the past is a foreign country, we go back to this time in the past and we look around and say, whats going on . Whats happening here . Whats going on with the California Gold rush . Lots of stuff. I hope youre getting that so far. But one thing thats happening is, the place itself the environment itself, the fundamentally transformed, we made. This is an episode in the american westward expansion, we start here on the Atlantic Coast and move across the country. A very Dramatic Development in 1845 to 1848 with the acquisition of texas and the oregon territory in the mexican secession. So by the 1848, with the purchase down here, we have to continuous 48 states. America expanded acros
Good evening everyone, welcome to our latest raven book chat and i am will pick talks at the hawkins and i thank you for joining us tonight. Im starting to sound like a broken record before every event but these days when theres so many options for things to do with every time. You could just sit on your couch never evening. Through you critique alexei for us to have folks come in for our events so we really appreciate it. I know that the staff of raven bookstore appreciated as well. Ill introduce you to our guest speaker, james sherow is a professor and the department of history at Kansas State University and he specializes in Research Environmental history and north American Indian history and history of the American West. Professor sherow as written six books norment articles and empire across the heartland, rephotographing alexander gardeners journey which is a familiar resource first staff involved here and i know we have that book on our shelves and weve used it. And the grasslan
A. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. And the sides tend not to want to, not concede, but just address the very legitimate conscience claims that each side at least believes that it has. I think that the best place where those conscience claims are discussed are in small groups of people, and there have been intentional groups in the past. There was a network for some years called the Common Ground network of life and choice that drew a kind of committed group of very strongly prochoice and very strongly prolife people who wanted to have conversations about where they could collaborate and where they could, you know, find Common Ground and address very real social problems like poverty that both sides cared about, right. The problem is these groups tend to founder and fall apart. They often fall apart because of the politics of Birth Control. Because what you you know, on the outside, someone can say, well, where they could collaborate would be on Birth Control. We prochoicers dont see any