Conference with you. It is a pleasure to be with you because really, there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with then teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life. From high school, from college, and also people who are involved in teaching public history by working and museums and historical sites and so forth. All of them has had a huge influence on my life. I do not think i would be writing History Today were it not for two very good history teachers that i had in high school. Let me tell you a little bit about how i came to the subject that im going to talk about today. I have for a long time, as long as i can remember, been obsessed with the First World War. I had relatives on both sides of my family who fought in it in several different armies. It always has sort of seemed to me, i think the historian simon put it best, when he described the First World War as the original sin of the 20th century. So much of what has afflicted us i
The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune mr. President , today is the first day of National Nurses week, an annual commemoration each may celebrating the contributions of nurses. So today seemed like a fitting day to come down to the floor and talk about the contributions of nurses and other essential workers over the past couple of months. Mr. President , we think about heroism, we tend to think of striking actions that take place in extreme circumstances. Running into burning buildings, jumping on to a grenade to save a fellow soldier. Racing out under fire to rescue a wounded comrade. And its right that when we think of heroes and we think such acts, acts of super human courage, generosity and selfsacrifice. But the past couple of months have also reminded us of another kind of heroism, the quiet heroism of doing ones duty, of getting up and going to work and doing your job day after day in difficult circumstances. Even when youre tired, even when youre scared, even when y
November 2018 from Princeton University doctor. The author of several books including the history of a black National Anthem and breathe a will written as a letter to her son. Here is a portion. And all white people as individuals as opposed to whiteness as the identity. And going to the second paragraph what if we took this identity apart . To have that different history or our body and with that different relationship and to have as a consequence and with that relationship and sue say how the individual can be. Someone who was raised by a white man so if you take people like bob zellner that i think are some of the most precious people in the world and its important to me to not have a formulation from my sense of the struggle. Thats what im thinking. Before we move on to your other books, mothering black boys in america is a special calling. Yes. My mother said to me in a number of different ways. And secondly and then not necessarily helpful about the challenges the black boys face
To be with you because really there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with than teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life from high school, from college, and also people who are involved in teaching public history by working in museums and historical sites, and so forth. All of that has had a huge influence on my life. I dont think i would be writing History Today were it not for two very good history teachers that i had when i was in high school. Let me tell you a little bit about how i came to the subject that im going to talk about today. I have, for a long time, as long as long as i can remember, been obsessed with the First World War. I had relatives on both sides of my family who fought in several different armies. And it has always sort of seemed to me, as one historian put it best when he described the First World War as the original sin of the 20th century, and so much of what has afflicted us in the last 100 years comes direc
And to moderate todays conversation before i introduce our guest thank you for the organizer and sponsor. The publisher of a new series of the abolitionist papers and i am proud doctor gilmores forthcoming book change everything, racial capitalism and a case for abolition. Haymarket has three more important events lined up this week on sunday. And on thursday one week from today and conversation with the money perry. Was so many people joining the call we need your patience with technical issues you may want to try reduce your image quality video will be recorded and we are reserving time for q a please post your questions on the live video feed wherever you are watching it. The pandemic is a portal to imagine the world. Some responses to covid19 that doubles down on criminalization on national and subnational borders now serves us with a message of total surveillance of good medicine. As we try to imagine a different world and fight for our future there is no one i would rather hear f