The text itself stays the same, but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. So how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. I should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. David white and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that . Is that whitman, emerson . Who said a fire never extinguished . I have been doing a Little Research and have one possible source. One is Edward Everett hale, a wellknown unitarian minister during the civil war in boston a writer especially of short stories. He is best known for his short story the man without a country, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1863. It is about a man who goes on the ship, disavows his country and loses his whole sense of identity. It is designed as a story to rally support
As a way to highlight the transformation. Yesterday, one of the things i did was to compare certain texts like uncle toms cabin, as a framework exploring some of the themes of the displacement of god, the masculinization, this artifacts of the transformation of culture following the civil war, with Rebecca Harding davis, mark twain, and frederick douglass. Today, what i want to do is start out telling a story, and i want to do it with one work of literature that you all know. So the text itself stays the , same, but how people have interpreted it has changed dramatically since the end of the war. So how can we understand, how we recognize that text, says a lot about the transformation of culture. I should say, when i was asked to do this, one of the many reasons i decided to do it was that i remain curious about the wonderful title, a fire never extinguished. David and a few others of us it was such a literary phrase, we tried to figure out, who said that . Is that whitman, emerson . W
New chapter. Distribution efforts of the first Covid Vaccine are officially underway after fir. After first leaving the pfizer facility this morning, a shipment arrived by plane to louisville. Another ups flight will be landing there and another one at fedex in memphis soon. Theyre all part of half a million doses making their way to distribution hubs across the nation right now. Those near 200 boxes will then be shipped to all 50 states with the first box said to arrive at Health Care Facilities tomorrow. It will reach 636 destinations by wednesday as the vaccine gets one step closer to americans. The director of the National Institute of health is pleading with the public to put their trust in the vaccine. The data is out there now. Its been discussed in a public meeting. All the details of the safety and efficacy for anybody who wants to look, this is a very powerful outcome of this incredibly intense yearlong experience to develop this. People are dying right now. How could you pos
History buff but unlike a lot of people who make that claim the history buff in my family was not my father. It was my mother and of her four children i seem to have been the only one she passed that gene onto. She took advantage of that one day we were driving into the city from westchester and she pointed out a big building up on a hill. She told me that was the bronx va hospital and then she said something that i have never forgotten. She said there were still men in that hospital who had never recovered from being gassed in the First World War. And this made quite an impression on a seven or 8yearold me. Even though i was a small child i knew enough about world war i to know that it happened a really really long time ago. 60 years at that point and it really struck me that there were men who had lived entire lifetime since then still frail from what they had endured in that war. I didnt know very much about the war at all. I knew what it was about. Pretty much i knew that snape u.
Well, he lived up fairly selfish life. He became a drug addict when he was about 17. See, he had such an incredible well that he was able to still continue to master the saxophone and master the art of playing jazz. From there he was actually able to find his own way to go. So powerful that he and flaws lot of others. And we have been talking with stanley crouch, columnist for the New York Daily News and author of this book coming up in september, kansas city lightning the rise and times of charlie parker. This is book tv on cspan2. Book tv continues with richard rubin. Richard rubin presents a collection of interviews conducted with menus served in the American Expeditionary forces and world war i. This is a little over an hour. [applause] thank you. That was a wonderful introduction. I started this book back in 2003. So it has been at 10year odyssey, but the seed for this book was actually planted many years earlier. It was back in the mid1970s when i was seven or eight years old. An