Kind of like, why in the middle of a pandemic are they calling people like me . So this is a good thing for us to talk about. This is a history methods course, it is about how you become a historian, and what you do for a living. You may remember the first week of class, we talked a little bit about the reaction you may sometimes get from family members when they hear you are a history major or minor or even taking a history course, that, why is this useful knowledge . Why are you bothering with all this old stuff . I can tell you personally i get , those questions a lot because of my Research Specialty in the history of health and medicine. Science is so much better today, why should we bother looking at the past history of diseases and how we responded to them . My goal today is to give you an example of why bother, and why i am proud to be a historian, why i am really psyched about what i do. So that is objective number one. I said the first week of class, i want to make you proud o
Professor tomes so what are we going to do today . I promised you that i would do show and tell from my own research, and the timing turned out that doing a Historical Perspective on pandemic preparedness might seem like a very interesting topic to discuss. I have been getting a lot of calls from journalists lately, and it is kind of, why in the middle of a pandemic are they calling people like me . So this is a good thing for us to talk about. This is a history methods course, it is about how you become a historian, and what you do for a living. You may remember the first week of class, we talked a little about the reaction you may sometimes get from family members when they hear you are a history major or minor or even taking a history course, that, why is this useful knowledge . Why are you bothering with all this old stuff . I get those questions a lot because of my Research Specialty in the history of health and medicine. Science is so much better today, why should we bother looki
Its spectacular. Its my real pleasure to introduce the next speaker. He is somebody you already know. You have heard him speak somewhere or on tv. He was born and raised in fredericksburg. He spent his career interpreting and preserving American Military history with the National Park service, the new york state government, Rensselaer County historical society, the Civil War Preservation trust, kentucky state parks and the u. S. Army. Do you think he is qualified to speak . He has written and spoken on various aspects of military history and leadership from 1775 to the present. He has published two books with the history press, the civil war at perryville and the Tullahoma Campaigns, and contributing to the emerging civil war bulldog and studied the 19411942 campaign released in late 2016. In september 2016, the u. S. Army published his volumes on the 1862 virginia campaigns as part of its series on the civil war. Last year at this event on friday night, i bought this book and by satur
that history is so clear that new york no longer contests that carrying a handgun outside of the home for purposes of self-defense is constitutionally protected activity. but that concession dooms new york s law which makes it a crime for a typical law-abiding new yorker to exercise their constitutional right. this court in heller labeled very few comparable laws that restricted all outlets for carrying firearms outside of the home for self-defense, outliers that will rightly condemn in decisions like none against georgia. new york likens it slow to a restriction on weapons and sensitive places. but the difference between a sensitive place law and new york is fundamental. it is the difference between regulating constitutionally protected activity and attempting to convert a fundamental constitutional right into a privilege that can only be enjoyed by those who can demonstrate to the satisfaction of a government official that they have an atypical need for the exercise of that
challenging that law. it is about two hours. that history is so clear that new york no longer contests that carrying a handgun outside of the home for purposes of self-defense is constitutionally protected activity. but that concession dooms new which makes it a crime for a typical law-abiding new yorker to exercise that constitutional right. this court in heller labeled the very few comparable laws that restricted all outlets for carrying firearms outside the home outliers that were rightly condemned. none against georgia. new york likens it slow to a restriction on weapons and sensitive places. but the difference between a sensitive place law and new york is fundamental. it is the difference between regulating constitutionally protected activity and attempting to convert a fundamental constitutional right into a privilege that can only be enjoyed by those who can demonstrate to the satisfaction of a government official that they have an atypical need for the exercise of t