Next on American History tv historians discuss the effect of media and technology on 20th century politics. Topics include the governments impact on Silicon Valley and Artificial Intelligence and Cable Television. The talk was part of a duty Purdue University conference called remaking american political history. It is an hour and a half. Good morning and welcome to the Media Technology and state panel. This is part of a larger two day session called remaking american political history. We are all talking about history and how its going to be talked and consumed over the years. This conference is sponsored by the department of history here at Purdue University and is organized but one of the panelists. Thank you katie and also by nikki and leah. We are thankful to them to get into this to discuss this issue of how history is going to be taught in the future. Im managing director of the center for cspan scholarship and engagement. We are a fairly new entity in the school of communicatio
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Welcome and thank you all for coming, especially on this evening. Im Eileen Gillooly and. As the executive director of the Society Fellows and heyman ceer humanities here at columbia. Its my privilege as well as my pleasure to welcome you to this evenings celebration of lorraine dustins. New book rivals how science has learned to cooperate. This is the first of what we hope will be many cooperative hosted by the columbia Global Reports, which my colleague Nicholas Lemann will tell you more about in a minute. And the society of fellow at human centers, otherwise known as the of new book series in the society of fellows. Its a series whichondistinguise society of fellows in the humanities at columbia, and which founded in 1975, is about celebrate its 50th anniversary. Before i introduce the speakers and turn over the proceedings to nick, wholl be moderating the conference session, id like to thank all the many folks who helped to make this event possible, especially camille mcduffie, cou
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