This is overheard. cheers and applause dr. Gates, welcome. Thank you. So nice to see you sir. Its an honour to be back in austin. Oh my god i love what i have seen of the series. I love it. Yeah . What do you like about it . What i love about it most is that it takes a subject that we think we know something about. The experience of black america since Martin Luther king at a moment when we need to be talking about race in this country in a serious and sober way and it looks at the political, the cultural, it looks at every conceivable aspect of life in this country and it just comes alive. It just jumps off of the screen. The first couple of times i looked at clips of this series i though i wanna see the entire thing right this minute. Ah thats great. It may be the best thing that ive seen you associated with and i just cannot wait. Thank you. To see the entire thing. Well in a sense its a documentary autobiography of our generation. So our conceit is, what if mlk woke up . Right, wha
Gentleman. [inaudible] he served as president of the ional underGround Railroad National Underground Railroad Freedom center for six years and worked at the National Museum of American History for 20. Exhibitionportant was the groundbreaking feel to factory field to factory. It generated a National Discussion on migration, race. He also cocurated the american presidency, a glorious burden. The National Underground Railroad Freedom center has attracted worldwide attention because of the quality of its presentation and focus on race, interracial cooperation, and issues of contemporary slavery. He has published extensively in the areas of public history. He coauthored the american presidency, unchanged unchanged memories unchanged memories. He has served on many boards. He is the pastor of the National Council for History Education the past chair of the National Council for History Education. He has been selected to the organization of american historians distinguished lecture symposium.
[inaudible] he served as president of the National Underground railroad National Underground Railroad Freedom center for six years and worked at the National Museum of American History for 20. His most important exhibition was the groundbreaking field to factory. It generated a National Discussion on migration, race. He also cocurated the american presidency, a glorious burden. The National Underground Railroad Freedom center has attracted worldwide attention because of the quality of its presentation and focus on race, interracial cooperation, and issues of contemporary slavery. He has published extensively in the areas of public history. He is the past chair of the National Council for history education. He has been selected to the organization of american historians distinguished lecture symposium. He graduated from Brown University and holds a masters degree in a doctorate degree from rutgers university. [applause] he holds the chair of Civil War History at Dickinson College and se
The west, prior to st. Louis being the gateway. A pittsburgh native who took the art world by storm. A visit to the andy warhol museum. He grew up in pittsburgh. He was born in 1928, the youngest of three siblings. He grew up really religious. They revise and team catholics. Byzantine catholics. We begin at the Heinz History Center for the look at innovations created right here in western pennsylvania. Pittsburgh is an amazing place. It is a city with a tradition of innovation. For 250 years people have come from all over the world to the forks of the ohio, the place for the allegheny and monongahela river comes together to form the ohio river. It is a place where ideas have converged. Now follow me and lets take a look at 250 years of pittsburgh innovation. 20,000 years ago, people started coming to north america. No one is native to north america. They all came from someplace else. About 30 miles west of pittsburgh is a place called the meadow cropped rock shelter. It is the oldest s
This is overheard. cheers and applause dr. Gates, welcome. Thank you. So nice to see you sir. Its an honour to be back in austin. Oh my god i love what i have seen of the series. I love it. Yeah . What do you like about it . What i love about it most is that it takes a subject that we think we know something about. The experience of black america since Martin Luther king at a moment when we need to be talking about race in this country in a serious and sober way and it looks at the political, the cultural, it looks at every conceivable aspect of life in this country and it just comes alive. It just jumps off of the screen. The first couple of times i looked at clips of this series i though i wanna see the entire thing right this minute. Ah thats great. It may be the best thing that ive seen you associated with and i just cannot wait. Thank you. To see the entire thing. Well in a sense its a documentary autobiography of our generation. So our conceit is, what if mlk woke up . Right, wha