Today we have the pleasure of posting and discussing the personal new book the campus color line. Will be out on september 29. Please consider grabbing the book if you dont have one and now were open a limited capacity weekends are busy is your best is to come by on monday or tuesday and with the easy access thank you for supporting our bookstore and our staff like to give a walkthrough to our platform. We will be taking questions from the audience. All the way to the right and then to keep track of all the questions and not to give a warm welcome home. And the Author College president s in the struggle for black freedom and you can find them on twitter also the phd with a black womens history and racial politics. And with history and African Studies at the university of texas austin and is the author of remaking black power transformed an era with that please help me to welcome and thank you both for being here tonight. Welcome everyone we are glad to have everybody here i will dig in
Campus color line College President s and the struggle for black freedom. Its out on september 29. If you havent yet preordered a copy of the book please consider grabbing one from book depot, we ship nationally, internationally, we have Curbside Pickup and we are actually open at a limited capacity. Just a heads up, weekends are busy so your best luck is swinging by monday or tuesday. Will share some guidelines in our chats and share some links to the book so you have easy access to purchases. Remember that your purchase goes to our supporting arts bookstore and staff. With that i would like to give a walkthrough of our platform and event after the introduction our guests for the night will be joining us up on the screen. We will be taking questions from the audience, please submit your questions in the q a photo below. If you are looking at the art below to the right you will see two bubbles that say q a thats where you should put them i would avoid the chat so we can keep track of a
So i knew of course that taft succeeded teddy and they would run against each other 1912, but then you always go back and i know scott does too, you want the primary sources, the letters and diaries and private journals for historians so when i found the 400 letters between the two, i realized they become friends when they were in their early 30s and an odd couple, teddy who is marching around everywhere doing wrestling and boxing and taft wayne between 250 and 350 is not doing much wrestling and boxing at that point, but they liked each other and the opposites almost attracted and teddy brings them into his cabinet, he becomes the most important person in his cabinet even though all his life he wanted to be a judge, never a politician, from from that he decides hes the man i want to succeed me, he runs the taft campaign, gives him advice at every moment, the only thing he did not give him a vice was the Campaign Song which i dont think teddy wouldve approved of it was get on a raft wi
City and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today we are discussing the Pulitzer Prizewinning book polio an american story. You all received questions i posted. Im really interested in this topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s, and thats when so much of this book takes place. I think just looking at polio really reveals so many different issues that affected that decade. Before starting, though, i just wanted to mention one thing in light of what we were talking about in terms of dust bowl art, i was reading the new york review of books and there is a review of a novel that goody guthrie wrote, a novel called house of earth. It doesnt get a very good review but he gets attention. The introduction was by Douglas Brinkley and johnny depp, so i think theyre trying to sell copies by having a superstar on the cover. I divided the discussion in four major themes. I thought the most interesting were looking at philanthropy, medical research, scientists and th
At 211 a share, now its 213 up again, those two Companies Amazon and microsoft have huge and growing cloud operations. That is a big part of their stock rally. Now look at tesla, 142, yesterday closing 1600 a share and this morning its up 11 bucks, 1654 but it is up again, are these tech stocks a bubble, is it like the dog, the late 90s, ive never seen anything like this before. Now look at the overall market, the Dow Jones Industrial going up again, maybe 150point of the opening bell, the s p of 21 points, two thirds of 1 . Look at the nasdaq, a half percentage point and more because a big tech again. The market is also getting help from the europeans who reached agreement on a near trillion dollar rescue plan that helps and they are still negotiating a plan for the United States as of right now. Bottom line, big tech in the market going up again today. A different story in our cities there is a confrontation going on on one side local largely democrat mayors on the other federal auth