They are basketball powerhouses. Being from indiana, i have a faint memory of when we were relevant in basketball. I will note that you won this year because of a guy from indianapolis. Amy has just published this is her book right here. The battle to freedom journeys through slave refugee camps. It is published by the university of North Carolina press and part of the civil war america series. This was a pretty good year, i would say. Sit tight. It will take a while for me to tell you all the awards this important book has received. It received the time watson brown price from the society of civil war historians, 2019 from the organization of american historians, the john now book prize as well p review cleaned up, amy. Congratulations. Its absolutely welldeserved. It is a very important book. And finally, i should add, amy is not only a terrific scholar, but she is also an excellent teacher. If i recall, you received a Teaching Award from the university of kentucky. It is my pleasure
We have been spending the week with an Amazing Group of educators from all over the country brought together under the auspices of the gulder Lehrman Institute of Early American History. This is generously supported by the Library Company of philadelphia and the pew center for arts and heritage. We spent the week tossing around ideas about how we might redraw Early American History. We tried to do that by suggesting one productive way of redrawing that history is to think in terms of a complicated and ever shifting set of contests among three sets of actors. Three sets of actors we call native people, settler colonists, and european empires. It is probably obvious to folks what we mean when we think about native peoples, although it should not be that obvious, except to stress it is a plural term. We are talking about many different peoples who have many different histories and are constantly in historical motion. European empires may be obvious, but once again it is a plural term. We
This is generously supported by the Library Company of philadelphia and the pew center for arts and heritage. We spent the week tossing around ideas about how we might redraw Early American History. We tried to do that by suggesting one productive way of redrawing that history is to think in terms of a complicated and ever shifting set of contests among three sets of actors. Three sets of actors we call native people, settler colonists, and european empires. It is probably obvious to folks what we mean when we think about native peoples, although it should not be that obvious, except to stress it is a plural term. We are talking about many different peoples who have many different histories and are constantly in historical motion. European empires may be obvious, but once again it is a plural term. We are talking about the french, the dutch, the spanish, the english, and occasionally some other powers. Those empires were in motion. Theyre being created in the period we are talking abou