music narrator thomas moran embarked on his first trip to the west in 1871. The United States at the time was still recoveng from the ravages of the civil war. Americans turned with hope to the western frontier. By painting the pristine grandeur of these remote places, moran enabled 19thcentury americans to visualize a magnificent landscape most would never see. His paintings transformed their perceptions of the west. From 1867 to 1879, the United States government sponsored four western expeditions, now known as the great surveys. Of all the ais who accompanied them, ne is more associated with the surveys than thomas moran. The watercolors he brought back from wyoming, the first color images of yellowstone, played a key role in the creation of the National Parks system. Yellowstone had long been familiar to american indians, mountainmen, traders and trelers. Legendary,eemingly unbelievable stories made their way east. The canyon was said to be a fearful chasm the river a frightful tor
The brand. Sales of american whiskey are up worldwide. A look is why its flowing more freely now than ever. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. I am Morgan Radford in new york. We begin with a nationwide man shunt this morning where thor manhunt where Authorities Say they are searching for two convicted murders. It began earlier this week at the Franklin Correctional Institution in the Florida Panhandle and continued 300 miles south in orlando. Our robert ray is standing by live in caravel, florida where the prisoners first escaped. What do we know right now . Reporter yeah, morgan, indeed. It is crazy and obviously scary that Something Like that occurred. Where we are coming from right now is on the gulf of mexico, carabel, florida. Two miles up the road is the Corrections Center where the two murderers seemed to have walked out. They will not allow us to be there for security reasons. On september 27th, one of the men had forged documents. He walked out. No problem. On october 8th, the se
music narrator thomas moran embarked on his first trip to the west in 1871. The United States at the time was still recovering from the ravages of the civil war. Americans turned with hope to the western frontier. By painting the pristine grandeur of these remote places, moran enabled 19thcentury americans to visualize a magnificent landscape most would never see. His paintings transformed their perceptions of the west. From 1867 to 1879, the United States government sponsored four western expeditions, now known as the great surveys. Of all the ais who accompanied them, none is more associated with the surveys than thomas moran. The watercolors he brought back from wyoming, the first color images of yellowstone, played a key role in the creation of the National Parks system. Yellowstone had long been familiar to american indians, mountainmen, traders and travelers. Legendary,eemingly unbelievable stories made their way east. The canyon was said to be a fearful chasm the river a frightf
Tonights talk and its also basically brand new. I noticed its official publication date was exactly two weeks ago. So its a twoweek birthday for your book this evening and were excited to share it with you. You can find it in all of the usual bookstore places as well as directly from the university of north carolina, press the publisher. So the talk will be around 30 to 35 minutes or so. Well have plenty of time for discussion at the end and the way we do discussion if youve been to these events before youll know we do all through the q a feature in zoom so you can type in questions to the q a box at any time. So if something occurs to you during the talk, feel free to type it and then ill wait till the end and we will get to as many of your questions as we can. Well wrap things up within about an hour and 15 minutes. So around 8 15 eastern time. So thats all from me. I just want to say have grateful. I am that dr. Yabra is able to be with us tonight. Its a wonderful book. Ive enjoyed
African descent during the 19th century. So her first book was race and the Cherokee Nation sovereignty in the 19th century, and her most recent book is called choctaw confederates the American Civil War in indian country. And of course you recognize the title. That book is the subject of tonights talk and its also basically brand new. I noticed its official publication date was exactly two weeks ago. So its a twoweek birthday for your book this evening and were excited to share it with you. You can find it in all of the usual bookstore places as well as directly from the university of north carolina, press the publisher. So the talk will be around 30 to 35 minutes or so. Well have plenty of time for discussion at the end and the way we do discussion if youve been to these events before youll know we do all through the q a feature in zoom so you can type in questions to the q a box at any time. So if something occurs to you during the talk, feel free to type it and then ill wait till t