Todays lecture is called tamany catholics. Just to put this in the context of what weve been looking at the past couple of weeks, what weve been looking at is this struggle for American Catholics to kind of find their place in american culture. Despite persistent and clear expressions of loyalty and patriotism and despite the real and human sacrifice of life in the civil war, after the civil war catholics remained a people viewed by most americans with suspicion and fear. A people apart, a people to be feared. A variety of reasons for this. They were members of what was perceived to be a Foreign Church based in rome. They were, as weve seen, participants in a separate School System. Even just by the virtue of their status as members of the working class at a time when the working classes are coming to be seen as the dangerous classes, catholics appearedded as a people apart, a people dangerously apart. Catholic efforts to participate in mainstream american institutions only seemed to m
Good evening. Thanks so much for coming out my name is andy grayville director of the Clemen Center for southwest studies here at smu let me start by thanking many people or at least a few of them who have helped make this evening possible starting m with our friend at the center for president ial history withor whom are cosponsoring this event tonight. Particularly jeffrey ankle Brian Franklin and ron that spitz i want to thank ruth and who coordinates things on our end for the Clemen Center so my pleasure to introduce Cameron Blevins who braved last nights weather to fly in from denver teaches digital humanities at the university of colorados campus in the mile high city before moving to front range he was assistant professor of history at Northeastern University in boston, and a core faculty member at the schools mu lab for text map and networks. They learned last night cameron is a nativity of the nutmeg state for those of you anybody knows what that is number of you ii was hoping
Catholics. Just to put this in the context of what weve been looking at the past couple of weeks, what weve been looking at is this struggle for American Catholics to kind of find their place in american culture. Despite persistent and clear expressions of loyalty and patriotism and despite the real and human sacrifice of life in the civil war, after the civil war catholics remained a people viewed by most americans with suspicion and fear. A people apart, a people to be feared. A variety of reasons for this. They were members of what was perceived to be a Foreign Church based in rome. They were, as weve seen, participants in a separate School System. Even just by the virtue of their status as members of the working class at a time when the working classes are coming to be seen as the dangerous classes, catholics appearedded as a people apart, a people dangerously apart. Catholic efforts to participate in mainstream american institutions only seemed to make things worse, and this is pe
Host scott how are you doing today . I am not a big reader but i was in thrall of your booktv inspiring and informative and inspiring can you tell me that if there was a similar thing for you . I guess i will start to answer a little further back growing up i was the opposite kid you would expect to become an astronaut. It was impossible for me to stay in class i was in the back of the room looking at the clock and doing that more than anything else. One day i was walking across the College Campus i just happened to go to the bookstore wasnt a big reader but i saw the book on the shelf with the red white and blue cover to look on the back i purchased the book took it back to my dorm room laid there for the next three days and read the stories of the Fighter Pilots that became the pilots the astronauts it was called the right stuff so the way tom wrote it captured my attention to create this way that i was in the moment and i also recognize that the characteristics that they had that i
Scott, how are you doing today . Im doing great. Im not a big reader but i found it to be inspiring, informative and exciting and im wondering if you can tell me how the way that i was touched by your book, if theres something that did a similar thick to you that got you on the track from your wayward life . So, you know, i guess where i will start to try to answer your question is a little bit further back and that is when i was a kid growing up i was the opposite kid to become an astronaut, i wasnt a good student, i couldnt Pay Attention in class, absolutely impossible for me to do that. I was the kid in the back of the room looking out of the window, looking at the clock trying to wheel it to run faster, i did that more than anything else. Yeah. I went to college because it was expected of me to go to college and i still struggled there. One day im walking across the school campus, College Campus and i just happened to go in the bookstore to buy gum or something, not a book. I wasnt