Taught and talked about and consumed over the years. This conference is sponsored by the department of history here at Purdue University. It is organized by katie brunell. Thank you. Were thankful to all of them to get into this and discuss this whole issue of how history is going to be taught in the future. Were new in the brian lamb school of communication here and our goal is to help professors from across the country use the cspan archives which is now over 250,000 hours of american political history. In their classrooms and in their research. We do other things. But thats what were concentrating on at this conference. Well be interested in following you as we reach out to specifically history professors across the country. Who are interested in using the cspan archives in the classrooms and in research. We have three excellent panelists that all have different areas of interest under this topic. Theyre going to speak for five to seven minutes and then take a lot of q a. Were going
Number, i think. So we have a lot of experience in this genre that weve been drawn to and have an affinity for it in some way or another. So before we begin let me introduce the panelists and as i introduce each of you if you could spend a minute or two telling the audience what was it that drew you to buyography. And first we have larry masslon from the tish school of arts and as particularly interested in the history of broadway and comedy and written biographies. Richard rogers and playwright george f. Coughlin in adisto other books. And the documentary film sammy davis jr. , i gotta be me. So what has drawn you to buyography. Hi. I may be different from the left of the panel. My venue is really entertainment. So, obviously, in entertainment, youre dealing with the public persona of performers, when they sang, danced and acted and, of course, what happens offstage or behind the curtain is equally fascinating as you try to make some sense out of what a performer did publicly as to wh
Taylor riggs has been diving into all of it. Tech has been the winner of the week. Where do you see the strength . Index the s p 500 tech was the second best performer this week and it was up 6. 5 . You mentioned the dismal economic data. Tech and the markets overall are looking past this, perhaps thinking that the worst is behind us. You hear Companies Like uber seeing green shoots in their demand recovery. Zillow saying people want to buy and sell these homes. It was notable that tech did not leave the gains. Up until this point, the nasdaq is the highest impact since february. Despite underperformance today, i continue to be surprised at the resiliency of the tech sector. Emily what about bonds . Taylor the two year yield hit a record low of 10 basis points at one point today. We ended up coming off that low a little bit. But the bond markets are giving us ominous signs of what is going on. The markets are pricing in a negative federal funds rate. That hell has said doesnt want nega
International, diplomatic and military history of the 20th century, in particular the era of the world wars and the cold war and in addition of the age eisenhower, hes author of the bitter road to freedom, a lib history of the liberation of europe which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and also a bestseller in the united kingdom. Following d. Hitchcocks remarks, ann compton will join d. Hitchcock for a conversation on this great biography and the 34th path of the United States. Anne is a pioneer of journalism in america. She was the first woman to cover the white house for Network Television and was on the air for 41 years with abc news. Her on geoffty and impact are unparalleled. Anns career at abc news spanned seven president s of the United States, 10 president ial campaigns. She anchored from the white house, from capitol hill and president ial travel that took her to all 50 states and six continue innocents and ann, and this is a very significant part of american and white house hist
Good evening, everyone. To all of our friends here and those watching by cspan and on facebook live, my name is stuart. And i am the president of the White House Historical association. It is my privilege to commute to the Historic House as well as to the White House Historical association. Tonights we had to fear many former officials from the and other administrations have the print of the validation and were honored at you here tonight this year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming the first lady of the United States under her leadership white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection which is the most of any presidency the significance of this will be discussed in tonights program but its very important lost here at the white house of our mission which was inspired as most of you were all of you know by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy to be the private nonpartisan private partner to the white house for conservatio