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And american Political Institutions throughout American History and describes a shift in attitude toward tobacco use. She is a back professor of history. A former fellow of the Virginia Foundation for humanities. She has written on the tobacco and the, ecigarettes, fight to battle climate change. The research describes how Everyday Americans influence government policy. Today is day two of the publication. Lease welcome sarah milov [applause] thank you so much for being here. Honorsuch a treat and an for a historian to come and speak at the National Archives. The other day i saw that the twitter account of the National Archives tweeted out information about this event and i thought as an historian it was kind of namehaving yourself checked by beyonce. This is the mothership so thank you all for coming. Cigarette a political history, seeks to understand tobacco not through the lens of big tobacco and the industry but through the efforts of Everyday Americans to get the government to int
Like a big relief, you know, its been 10 years in the work to make this book and so it feels like a relief and its just a pleasure to be able to talk about it, to talk about it with you and tons of other interesting people. Really a page turner. Outland, the great medical scientific historian on the cigarette century. Robert proctor at stanford about the deception of the industry. Any trepidation when you started . You had three giant box out there, and you took a risk. Guest yes, but but i really feel as though with those three books, ashes to ashes, cigarette century and Robert Proctor whole corpus of work, the biggest of which is called golden holocaust, i i really feel as though i was standing on the shoulders of giants. These are fantastic works and my work is tremendously indebted to them, but when i was thinking about writing about tobacco, i wasnt approaching the same way that they were. They were very much coming at the story of tobacco from the angle of industry and when i be
It has been a exciting for us to see how engaged history educators are even when they cant either. Im grace leatherman, executive director of the National Council for history education. We are loving doing this online conference with you. Mr. Hochschild it is a pleasure to be with you because there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with ben teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life from high school, from college, and also people who are involved in teaching public history by working in museums and historical sites. All of that has had a huge influence on my life. I dont think i would be writing History Today were it not for two very good history teachers i had when i was in high school. Let me tell you a little bit about how i came to the subject that im going to talk about today. I have, for a long time, as long as long as i can remember, been obsessed with the First World War. I had relatives on both sides of my family who fought in
Please welcome sarah milov. [applause] iz miss ms. Milov thank you so much. It is such a privilege to come and speak at the national archives. The other day, i saw a tweet about todays event, and as a historian, its kind of like having yourself name checked by beyonce. This is the mothership. Thank you so much for coming. My book, the cigarette a political history, seeks to understand tobacco in modern america, not through the lens of big tobacco in the machinations of industry, but through the efforts of Everyday Americans to get the government to intervene on their behalf. Big tobacco is still an important part of the story, but by focusing on other actors, farmers, government officials, politicians, activists, workers and labor unions, the story of tobacco in the 20th century begins to look a lot different than if we were to understand it through the actions of tobacco alone. By taking a wide angled approach, my book suggests that far from being the product of corporate deception th