The heartland. Race and memory in america. And slinging doughnuts for the boys and American Woman in world war ii. His most recent book is hoosiers, a new history of indiana, which is on display outside. For many years he coedited the Indiana University press series midwestern history and culture, which included a book he edited entitled comparative historys of the midwestern states. Jim says hes very proud, in a modest hoosier way that the midwest Mystery Association bestowed on him the Lifetime Achievement award. I have known jim many years, is since i was a student, his student back at Indiana University and ill testify that he has solid midwestern values, unfailing kindness, decency, unflagging work ethic and solid common sense. Jim represents the best of what it means to be midwestern but hes never roman tied midwestern history. We pride ourselves on being nice, but we dont always live up to that ideal. So today jim will be speaking on a darker side of the midwestern past. Hell be
In it. They go out, they do research, and find the resources to tell them the story, but also try to figure out the significance of their topic in history. So they are going to archives, into museums, into libraries, and theyre sifting through primary sources, secondary sources, and thinking critically about that and why their topic was important in history, as related to the annual theme. This year, the theme is triumph and tragedy in history. We have at all kinds of different angles, perspectives for kids to look at, and this year it is triumph and tragedy. So we have topics ranging from indian treaties to world war ii, to helen keller, the partition of india, you name it. Really fascinating, interesting topics, and they present findings in different formats. For one of the categories, you see behind me, the exhibit category. Also a paper category, and dramatic performance, documentary, or website. So history day gives kids an opportunity to be creative in the way in which they prese
Associations, and health care experts. The committee chaired by vermont independent senator bernie sanders. Not only is this unfair to working class and lower income americans, who cannot access a medical home when they need it, and we are losing over 60,000 people a year because they do not get to on time. But in addition to that, from a financial and costeffective perspective, what we have now is basically insane. We have a situation where people get sick, they do not go to the doctor, you know what happens when you dont go to the doctor and you are sick . You get sick or. Maybe you end up in an emergency room where the cost of primary care is ten times, or eight times more than it is if you walked into a Community Health center. If you cant afford prescription drugs, you get sticker, and you may end up in the hospital, and that will cost 100,000. So what we are talking about today is to, things my own personal view, and health care is a human right, and that we should emulate what g
Provost and university librarian. Good evening. Its. Good evening and welcome to the bancroft Prize Program. Columbia University Library is cosponsors. This important event with the Columbia Department of history as our dedicated historians say, the work of historical scholarship is never finished and we reexamine it through present day lenses. Today, especially today, it seems it seems important to lift up that critical work of examining and reexamining history. History is happening right now, and i am grateful for all of the hard labor that goes into researching and writing history, including not only the history in, but also the labor of librarians, archivist sites, curators, editors, and other workers whose critical work, work and support deserves to be acknowledged. A jury is chosen each year by our history to award the prizes to outstanding historians of the americas. One of the leading historians and that department is selected to chair a panel of three jurors representing the f
Good evening and welcome to the bancroft Prize Program. Columbia University Library is cosponsors. This important event with the Columbia Department of history as our dedicated historians say, the work of historical scholarship is never finished and we reexamine it through present day lenses. Today, especially today, it seems it seems important to lift up that critical work of examining and reexamining history. History is happening right now, and i am grateful for all of the hard labor that goes into researching and writing history, including not only the history in, but also the labor of librarians, archivist sites, curators, editors, and other workers whose critical work, work and support deserves to be acknowledged. A jury is chosen each year by our history to award the prizes to outstanding historians of the americas. One of the leading historians and that department is selected to chair a panel of three jurors representing the finest scholars in the field from Excellent Research u