Looks at responses to disasters in history with an emphasis on research and writing. Over the semester, we have examined various disasters from different perspectives. First of all, the psychological and physical problems from jamestown. Disasters, responses to fires, hurricanes, and epidemics in colonial america, famine suffered by the donner party en route to california, irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine and the ability to create new lives in this country, disaster tourism, the johnstown flood of 1889, the impact of the fire in new york city, and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today, we are discussing david oceanfys Pulitzer Prize winning book polio an american story. You all received questions that i posted and im really interested in the topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s and of course thats when this takes place and i think just looking at polio, really, so many different issues that affected that decade. Before starting, though, i
Eddie was a very nice and very funny guy. He lost a long and difficult battle with cancer. He will be missed by many, and i know we all send our best to his family and friends. What a rotten year this has been. Every day its just another punch in the gut. But this morning our president woke up and tweeted feeling great so thats good news. He is all hopped up on dexamethasone right now. And to prove it he put out another im physically marvelous video today. I just left walter reed medical center, and its really something very special. The doctors, the nurses, the first responders. And i learned so much about coronavirus. And one thing thats for certain, dont let it dominate you. Jimmy right. Just run out there and breathe it all in. Be a man, will you . Typhoid donny made a trumpumphant return to the white house last night with a dramatic balcony scene that only an egomaniac on massive amounts of drugs would ever even think to stage. Which is why people, you know, take great pains to pr
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I found the ok on you in the stream today a british actress playing an iconic american abolitionist while people saying hash tag not my how it dont forget to tweet us and send us your comments on you tube during the live conversation but before we get started take a look at this. Stuff. Easy. For you. Thats part of the trailer for how yet an upcoming biographical film about american abolitionist how it helped him and cynthia evo landed the title pop but many people are now upset that a revote who is a british nigerian was casting stead of an African American actress theyve been voicing their opinions online using the hashtags not my how it how it deserves better and adolf short for american descendants of slavery so why was this particular casting decision so controversial and what does the debate say about black identity in the u. S. Joining us to discuss these questions in Los Angeles Antonio moore is a cofounder of american descendants of slavery in Johannesburg South Africa Hollywo