Explorers in the sort of interior west. So as i told you all last time, weve proceeding pret up to this point. This lecture is going kind of spin us out onto a thematic topic. So were going to start right around Thomas Jefferson, who we left off talking about on monday, but were going to jump the way through forward to the usmexico war and the civil war. And so a lot of the topics were talking about today, theyre also going to come up in our future lectures. So just know that if you feel slightly unmoored when it comes to what time were in, im going to do my best to signpost, but just flag me down. Youre like, weve suddenly jumped 20 years. Thats going to happen today because its a more of a em really want us to get out of this is a deeper insight into this question. Weve been talking throughout the class,hi is once you have an empire, how you exert control over it and how is the new us federal government, which we started to talk about on monday, going to control the interior west is
Here to join in this discussion. The examination of the life of brigadier Charles Young i titled the paper or this lecture a destiny deferred because often times when you read about or if you just do a Google Search and at and examining charles life his best friend is often quoted his best friend w. E. B. Dubois and. Dubois defined youngs life as a triumph tragedy and a big part of the research. And my goal as a scholar is changing narratives. And so this is what were going to discuss this evening. Looking at this destiny of one of the finest black officers to serve, according to many of the of his followers from the late 19th century into the early 20th century. So its surprisingly, Charles Young was a humanities, you know, they i keep reading articles all the about how the the humanities are dying. Oh my god what are we going to do with this . But Charles Young at the academy he excelled in the and actually was terrible math in fact he failed math i had to get tutor help to do it but
Brigadier Charles Young i titled the paper or this lecture a destiny deferred because often times when you read about or if you just do a Google Search and at and examining charles life his best friend is often quoted his best friend w. E. B. Dubois and. Dubois defined youngs life as a triumph tragedy and a big part of the research. And my goal as a scholar is changing narratives. And so this is what were going to discuss this evening. Looking at this destiny of one of the finest black officers to serve, according to many of the of his followers from the late 19th century into the early 20th century. So its surprisingly, Charles Young was a humanities, you know, they i keep reading articles all the about how the the humanities are dying. Oh my god what are we going to do with this . But Charles Young at the academy he excelled in the and actually was terrible math in fact he failed math i had to get tutor help to do it but. He was a polyglot. He spoke german fluently. French and spanis
Hey, welcome to tonights david l guy sponsored by the center of economic. Im kathy wolfe, the Vice President for Academic Affairs here at Roanoke College. Its my present, my privilege to welcome you because i have the privilege of working with all of our academic and faculty i know and celebrate that were immersed here in wide variety of ways of knowing and being in the world. It is crucial for all of us to encounter diverse perspectives throughout our lives. Roanoke college advocates freedom with purpose. This means that among other outcomes, we strive to enable students to sharpen their minds through Critical Research and debate. Build their own code of and live in a diverse and tolerant community. Ideas and viewpoints that backed by sound reason and evidence that do not deny the worth of other human beings have a place on a College Campus and in a democratic, reasonable looking at the same can reach different conclusions about what that information means or how to act on it. Some pe
Authors with books that i every american needs to read. First off, we have beth macy. Shes a virginia based journalist. Her previous book was, dopesick dealers drug doctors and the drug company that addicted america. She was an executive producer and cowriter on hulus peabody winning dopesick series. Before that, she spent many years reporting for the Roanoke Times in virginia. She occasionally contributes essays to the new york times. Shes here with her book lazarus hope, justice and the future of americas overdose crisis. And next to her, we have thrasher. He holds inaugural daniel rensburg chair at northwesterns middle school. The first journalism professorship in the world to focus on lgbt q research. Hes also on faculty of northwesterns institute of sexual and gender, Minority Health and wellbeing. Written about the aids, hiv, covid 19, a monkeypox epidemics for the new times, the guardian atlantic, buzzfeed news, as well as numerous scholarly. And hes here with his the viral unde