Cspans campaign 2020. Your unfiltered view of politics. This comes from Purdue University with biographers looking at political history. This talk was part of a twoday conference called remaking political history. Its an hour and a half. Welcome and thank you for attending our session on this beautiful friday afternoon. I will have to compete with the outdoors and hopefully well convince you that youve made the right choice hanging out with us to talk about media and biography and political history. Randy robert has written so many. Youve written half of our total number, i think. So we have a lot of experience in this genre. Weve obviously been drawn to it and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So before we again, let me introduce the panelists. And as i introduce each of you, if you could just spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it you love about the genre. First we have larry maslin in the graduate acting program
Randy roberts has written so many, hes written more than half of our total number, i think. So, we have a lot of experience in the genre and weve been drawn to it and we have an affinity for it in some way or another. Let me introduce the panelists, i will introduce each of you, if you could spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to biography and what is it you love about this genre. We have larry who is a professor of the graduate acting program at school of the arts in new york in the musical writing program. Hes particularly interested in the music of broadway and has written biographies of Richard Rogers and playwrights and in addition to several other books. His most recent biographical work is the documentary film, sammy davis junior, i gotta be me. So, larry, tell us what drew you to this. Hi. I may be a little different from the rest of the panel. My venue is really entertainment. So, obviously, in entertainment you are dealing with a public person
Military before and after the founding of the university. Our namesake was a civil war general. Eight other founders of the university were civil war generals, so they instilled a support for the military just in their presence on the campus. Howard students have been a part of the military Service Since the beginning of the university. Host what role do they actively take part was they decided to join the military . Africanamericans were infantrymen, but the students really wanted africanamericans to be able to move higher in the military. So they stopped for the establishment of the first africanamerican Officers Training camp in des moines, iowa, in 1917, and they continued their support of the military in the years that followed. Talk to me about their willingness to participate within the government how it was received. Lopez the government was tentative, because they still had this idea that African Americans were not good for the military, that African Americans were somehow cow
Last train to memphis and careless love. Theyre here discussing wills new book colorization 100 years of black films in a white world. Publishers weekly calls it an engrossing account of a vital but often slated cinematic tradition full of fascinating lore and Dwight Garner writes for the New York Times. This is sweeping history, but in hagoods hands, it feels crisp urgent and paired down like a good movie. It pops from the start. Were so pleased to be hosting this event tonight. The digital podium is yours will and peter. Thank you. Thank you. Well, its great to be here with you. I wish we were here in person. And congratulations on the book. Weve known each other a long time. Weve known each other over 30 years. And all that time, you know, i feel like weve been not so secret santa asks. Yeah, last youve come out and declared yourself, and i wondered if you always had. Book like this in the back of your mind. Big book resting on the twin pillars of art and social history and storytel
Last train to memphis and careless love. Theyre here discussing wills new book colorization 100 years of black films in a white world. Publishers weekly calls it an engrossing account of a vital but often slated cinematic tradition full of fascinating lore and Dwight Garner writes for the New York Times. This is sweeping history, but in hagoods hands, it feels crisp urgent and paired down like a good movie. It pops from the start. Were so pleased to be hosting this event tonight. The digital podium is yours will and peter. Thank you. Thank you. Well, its great to be here with you. I wish we were here in person. And congratulations on the book. Weve known each other a long time. Weve known each other over 30 years. And all that time, you know, i feel like weve been not so secret santa asks. Yeah, last youve come out and declared yourself, and i wondered if you always had. Book like this in the back of your mind. Big book resting on the twin pillars of art and social history and storytel