Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan 3. You are watching American History tv. Every weekend on cspan 3, explore our nations past. Created by americas Cable Television companies as a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. Next on American History tv, to bestselling authors discuss how they use Historical Research in their work. Novelist Kathleen Rouhanis latest as the world war one story, and miles harvey focuses on his new nonfiction book, the king of confidence. The conversation was moderated by the Paul University professor amy tyson. Authors roomy and harvey boast teach in the pauls English University department. They provided the video. Hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining us tonight and this is an of vent hosted by the English Department of dePaul University and coast by the Depaul History Department. Its a thrill to get to host with them, to real stalwarts of the English Department, Kathleen Rouhani and miles harvey. Amazing writ
Yesterday. Today, we will look at the environment and the impact of the California Gold rush. I would like to begin by, as ive said, at the beginning of the first presentation, begin by thanking a little larger than we normally do here, to pull back on the context of this. What is going on . The universe of colorado working once and they only ask one question. Whats going on here . I asked, thats the domestic ive ever heard a smart man say, but the past is a foreign country. Look around and say, whats going on . Whats happening . Whats going on with the California Gold rush. Lots of stuff, but one of the things that has been going on is that the place itself, to their environment itself has been fundamentally transformed, remade and is an episode an american westward expansion. It starts and it moves across the country, very dramatic development, the acquisition of texas and the organ territory in the mexican session. By 1848, we have the state. So this is part of that, but what i want
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