the big 1862 round table. my name is manisha sinha, and i m the draper welcome to the second part of the big 1862 roundtable. my name is manisha sinha and i m the [inaudible] chair at in american history at the university of connecticut, and i will be cheering and moderating this roundtable. i should also inform you of course again that the panel is being televised by c-span, and one of our speakers, mycah conner, will be zooming in for her remarks and, you can see her right here on the screen. unfortunately, another panelist, keri leigh merritt, had a family emergency a while i go, and let us know that you would not be able to participate today. so, just in terms of this panel, i would like to just put forward a few framing remarks on the 1862 moment, and then let the speakers go for ten minutes each, deliver their remarks, maybe talk amongst each other, raise some questions for each other. i d be happy to facilitate that. and then we will open it up for q&a with the audienc
Bless him, an associate dean of the college of humanities and at byu. He is also the editor of a book. His talk is entitled the special relationship as Popular Culture 1989 to 1906. Please join me in welcoming frank. [applause] thanks, bob. Echo has go stimulating this has been. I was going over my notes. I could spend half the talk making callbacks for yesterdays session. There were so many things i found helpful in my own thinking. I do have a couple of preparatory thoughts. From some things that Patty Limerick is said in her keynote yesterday. I really like her idea of what she calls Buffalo Bills studies, as fieldnotes. Field that identifies our collective project as inherently ecumenical. In its approach to scholarship, one that is called a by the nature of the subject. Was, i informal survey thought, was very helpful. She asked about the various backgrounds of those in the audience. I would like to think that the paper is working towards this vision in a variety ways. One of whic
He wrote a book called hello called buffalo bill in begonia. Where is our Marketing Panel . We still sold it in the gift shop. People loved that because Buffalo Bills name was on the cover there. Please join me in welcoming bob riddell. [applause] thank you all very much. I will be brief. I also want to add my voice of thanks to all the organizers in the last day today and tomorrow. This is a splendid series of events. The word fun does not get often get used in the context of academics. Fun is an appropriate word to use. These are delightful presentations. Im looking forward to the ones that are upcoming. The personal privilege, 100 years ago, a massive funeral. My grandfather and grandmother were there, along with my mother at age two. Somehow, these things come around. Let me introduce our first panelist. Frank christianson, i think most of you know frank and his work. He is an associate professor of english, associate dean, god bless him, an associate dean of the college of humanit
Welcome in really need to be welcomed in a very personal confident way. To cut through some of that alienation and loneliness. , i conceived of a Mentorship Program where we pair incoming new members, graduate students, with a senior scholar of their choice, who has volunteered to do this. To get together for at least an hour for a cup of coffee, which the oah pays for. And to talk about the Young Persons career and their interests and the direction they wish to take. This morning, and met with two mentees and we talked about their work. We also talked about the job market and ways in which the oah can help those who are entering the job market for the first time. I think there are a number of ways. Available tohops teach people how to write a new cover letter, how to put together a job resume, how to interview on skype. What is the meaning of an oncampus interview and how do you handle loads . Those. We are trying to reach out to a new generation of historians who are entering our pro
My two big sisters were cheerleaders and i was not. I think that my job is to be a cheerleader. There will be no pompoms or the usual accoutrements. The value of history is understanding our world and the alternatives that we might have passed up before but we can still reactivate or just do not do that again anyway, all kinds of excellent lessons to be drawn from history. Also, historians are very cool people. We have some of the best stories around. Many of them are valuable stories and extremely entertaining and fun. Why does this interest you so much . Because i have no other skills. I play to my strengths. That is kind of true. I do very much enjoy stories. I enjoy thinking about stories. If you ask me to think of an important thought that was not attached to a real life story, you would have wasted your time. It is really the story that brings my mind into action. I could not have been a philosopher. Or i would have been the goofiest philosopher around. I could not have been a po