Conference with professor gallagher. With that, i will turn it over to professor stephen cushman. Thank you very much. I am grateful to everybody. I wont repeat all the thank yous that have been said, but on behalf of Tamika Nunley and myself i would say thank you for being courageous and not being driven away this morning by that first talk. [ laughter ] all right, lets start with a large claim. Here it is. Without the civil war, there would be no mark twain. But why stop with one big claim. There is another that i will throw in free of charge. Without mark twain, memory of the civil war would be different from what it is today. Twain played a very significant role in civil war memory, by publishing books by various other people about the war, at least one of which, the memoirs of grant, has become a classic of American Literature and history. But lets stick to the first big claim. Without the civil war, there would be no mark twain. As we think about mark twain and the civil war, two
As they move into the middle class, they adopt middleclass values and he is really upset. In the late 1950s you see them writing in his journal more and more inviting letters saying community, the way this is going, this is just not going in the direction that i want. He really believed that it was important to empower people and for them to not have a sense of dignity and to not live in poverty and to be comfortable but not to forget where they came from and to help people who are still living in poverty and to help the cause. And that is a lot of the reason why he leaves the cso and starts out on his own to organize farmworkers, but a think that really strong feeling that ive empowered of these people and now theyre using that power becomes very significant later on when you tried to understand some of the decisions that he made and the degree to which he wanted to maintain control because he never wanted to be in that situation again. He talks about that quite a lot. So later on, th
Kevin Hart, who rose from the open mics and comedy clubs of his native Philadelphia to become one of his country's most recognizable performers, is receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Kevin Hart, who rose from the open mics and comedy clubs of his native Philadelphia to become one of his country's most recognizable performers, is receiving the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.