Thanks so much for joining us for this joint effort between the american Inspiration Series of american ancestors at New England Historical genealogical society, the state library of massachusetts and as, Porter Square books. Although we are open on light and a person, with limited capacity. We ship into local delivery and have curbside pickups. A special pandemic newsletter and lots of other stuff such as a visit us at Porter Square books. Com. Before introduce our guests and our moderator i want to give you a few quick housekeeping notes but using crowd casts which so much my views before before and maybe many of you have it. First of all the that is recorded so you can watch it back if you wasted for part of the knights talk because your water was boiling or you wanted to share with a friend. It will be here at this crowd cast link as well as on our facebook page. Second of all you can really use this lovely chat window in the bottom right of your screen whats that Say Something nic
Second, comprehensive. In covering not just the voyage for the first few years, working philips war, all of which have recently been done, but in covering the entire story, allowing us, the readers, to enjoy the true benefits of history, which is the scope, to follow consequences of actions through generations. Narratives, because what nat does best is to tell a story. An adventure story, but in many ways, and unexpected adventure story. Look at the cover. I of course love it because it is our painting, the mayflower on her arrival in plymouth harbor. Thathat i really love is even though the book is entitled the mayflower, this cover doesnt put the mayflower front and center, it doesnt show a by waves. D that would be the expected adventure story. Instead, it focuses on this little group of pilgrims leaving the ship that has brought them through peril, headed off toward the shore on the verge of starting new lives. And it is there in the territory of these wideopen possibilities that t
Today we are going to discuss an overview of america in the 1970s. In the beginning of the century we talked about how it takes a bit of time or historians to understand what an era is about at least 25 years of perspective. The 1970s were seen as a bit of a joke of a decade. Bellbottoms, disco, bad hair. In recent years historians have seen the 1970s is very important. In some ways william more important than the 1960s which seems to get a lot of attention. One of the themes historians have talked about is calling this era the age of limits. We will get to a little bit about what that means. We will talk about that and also the . Was this really an age of limits . We will discuss the import of the decade and the influence it had on not just the 1980s but really down to our time today. Recapping what we talked about earlier, we see in the 1970s a pretty profound loss of faith in American Institution driven by nixons resignation over watergate in 1974. The final end of the vietnam war i
, but first, really exciting news. This morning, the grammy nominations came out and all your favorites were nominated. Carly b. , kendrick whether mar, taylor swift, khalid and one more nominee who may surprise you, Bernie Sanders. laughter yeah. Who, no joke, was nominated for his spoken word album. Yeah. Which is exciting. Thats exciting. applause so Bernie Sanders is in the running for a grammy, and you know right now someone in the d. N. C. Is going, all right, guy, how do we rig this for hillary . laughter its a great piece of spoken word. When you listen to it, your headphones spit on you, thats the only thing. laughter im happy bernie got nominated for spoken word but they snubbed his other album of pop hits. Thats what i call canning rishouting. Oh, look what you made me do look what you just made me do im in love with the shape of you last night you were in my room and now my bed shakes like you. Be humble. Sit down. Be humble. Sit down. cheers and applause trevor oh, wow i a
And that alerts all of the defenders in the alamo that the attack is coming. William travis rallies the troops. The mexicans are at 1,800 strong against 200 alamo defenders made up of europeans, jews, two slaves, women and children, and mexicans who just want to fight for their land. Theres no way that they can win this. [dramatic music] colonel william travis, he runs to the front wall, and is immediately shot and killed in the very first stages of the attack on the alamo. And his slave joe is like, well, everybody here is fighting for a bit of land. Im not gonna get any land, clearly, so im gonna, hmm, not fight. And he took off. And myth has it that jim bowie fought to the death. He must have taken out 30 mexicans with his big knife. The reality is, he had come down with a case of tuberculosis, and jim bowie was shot on his deathbed. Mexican soldiers breached the wall of the alamo, and the alamo defenders realize they have to retreat to the long barracks. So the mexicans enter the b