From chalkboards to the silver screen: Purdue professor s teaching extends beyond the classroom
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Randy Roberts, professor of history at Purdue, has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. (Purdue University photo/Rebecca McElhoe)
Randy Roberts announced as finalist for Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Author of more than 20 nonfiction books, consultant or on-screen expert for more than 50 documentaries and professor for more than 30 years, it would be difficult to underestimate the number of people who have learned something from Randy Roberts, 150th Anniversary Professor and Distinguished Professor of History at Purdue University. This historian’s commitment to teaching has been recognized for one of th
Credit: Architect of the Capitol
Details from statues of Richard Stockton (left) and General Philip Kearny. The statues are in the National Statuary Hall Collection.
The traumatic events that unfolded on Jan. 6 at the U. S. Capitol brought sobering media attention to “our temple of American democracy.” Video footage of intruders with banners and flags traipsing through Statuary Hall put a dramatic spotlight on the historic space. Less than three weeks later, the House impeachment managers solemnly proceeded through Statuary Hall to deliver the charge of “incitement of insurrection” to the Senate, again bringing visual notice to this dignified setting.