12 30 p. M. Welcome. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. We will present this room and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us leadheaded thinkers turned into scholars and teachers. The process works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little bit because she came to yale to study with Harold Lamarr a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that ragtag group in american studies. [applause] not a cohort exactly. We did become friends, puzzling throughdings, yawning brilliant, but sometimes excruciating seminars. Western history, some of you may know, was taught in the basement. And on frid
With that selfdetermination and that fight for control. Some of those are fairly well known just like a navajo weaver we get to know their stories were lost to history and tell now and then to show the importance of individual actions even in the midst of a larger military conflict. And it is history that keeps the reader turning the pages. A writer and historian living in lincoln and writing for several publications the Washington Times and Smithsonian Magazine earning her ba in history and literature and phd from american studies from the university of iowa. Teaching at texas tech, cal state fullerton, harvard and brown also the author of true indignation and troubling earth. She will talk about the three cornered war and how it came to be or share some anecdotes during the process and read a passage or two that open to questions to thehe audience. Please help give a warm welcome to magan kate nelson. [applause] thank you for coming out on this drizzly cold night. Before we begin, wo
And get more Vacation Time spend their days wrangling al our crazy kids when they go out they should get free bottomless wine teachers deserve a monthslong friday hang cucumbers on their eyes if you ask them why the spas using veggies theyll explain its because of the enzymes teachers should have a prom for teachers so they can dress in fancy clothes the students have to chaperone teachers should make a billio dollars and when its time for arts and crafts they should get swarmed by paparazzi for selfies and autographs teachers shouldnt have to pa their taxes they should get cheered aroun the clock at the bank they should throw money at them and at chipotle they should always get free guac teachers should make a billio dollars teachers should make a billio dollars yes they should teachers should make a billio dollars teachers should make a billio dollars twice a week tonight join jimmy and guests Ryan Reynolds. Karlie kloss musical guest ezra king. And the legendary roots crew its the t
Is this live . Can everyone hear me . Welcome. My name is kyle byrd im the executive director of the leon leavy center for biography. Over the past 12 years the leavy center has awarded 44 major fellowships to working biographers. Each of these fellowships is not worth 72,000 so its not chump change. To date some 20 biographies have been published including ruth franklins biography of Shirley Jackson which won the Prestigious National book critics circle award biography. I also want to spread the news about our brandnew holy unique Masters Program in biography and memoir is just started this autumn with at least 17 students enrolled which is phenomenal. Brenda is actually both former director of the leon leavy center and teaches the core courses in new Masters Program. Our next program is next wednesday, september 25 at 6 30 p. M. With david netzel giving the annual leon leavy lecture on biography. Tonight im very delighted to have Benjamin Moser in conversation with brenda one apple.
South of tulsa about 60 miles south. My father and mother moved there about 1911 or 12 because he had had experiences in shreveport, louisiana. These are as red experiences that were not present. He was ready to give up on the white people because the way they treated him. He had been thrown out of court in shreveport, louisiana. So he retreated from shreveport and where he was practicing and went to an allblack town. Due to the humiliation he experienced in shreveport. They moved to in about 1912. What was that experience like . It was not all that much better because although the strife that was going on separated the methodist from the baptists and the baptists were hard on my mother and father because they were methodist. And the result was, the strife was not racial, but religions. Not at all convenient or comfortable. I was born there. They lived there for several years after i was born. But they were not happy there. Not nearly because of the hostility but because it was such a