In a very personal way. Hes authored 12 books. Im incompetent to properly introduce bill moyers theres simply not enough time. Before a studio audience a man known for his modesty and his reluctance to talk about himself, agreed to sit down with me for a conversation i shall never forget. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Bill moyers. upbeat music audience applause it started in marshall, texas but it started before you were a journalist. Something unusual occurred in marshall that taught you about this america. You were the son of one of the poorest people in town anywhere else, in any other time, you wouldnt have had much of a shot. How did it happen that a poor boy got the shot you got . I was the beneficiary of affirmative action for poor, white southern boys. If you studied hard, worked hard, moved around town, met people, there were men particularly men in the town who would say, hes a comer lets help him. Hes a poor boy lets help him. So the rodeo club gave me a scholarship, the City Co
In a very personal way. Hes authored 12 books. Im incompetent to properly introduce bill moyers theres simply not enough time. Before a studio audience a man known for his modesty and his reluctance to talk about himself, agreed to sit down with me for a conversation i shall never forget. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Bill moyers. upbeat music audience applause it started in marshall, texas but it started before you were a journalist. Something unusual occurred in marshall that taught you about this america. You were the son of one of the poorest people in town anywhere else, in any other time, you wouldnt have had much of a shot. How did it happen that a poor boy got the shot you got . I was the beneficiary of affirmative action for poor, white southern boys. If you studied hard, worked hard, moved around town, met people, there were men particularly men in the town who would say, hes a comer lets help him. Hes a poor boy lets help him. So the rodeo club gave me a scholarship, the City Co
In a very personal way. Hes authored 12 books. Im incompetent to properly introduce bill moyers theres simply not enough time. Before a studio audience a man known for his modesty and his reluctance to talk about himself, agreed to sit down with me for a conversation i shall never forget. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Bill moyers. upbeat music audience applause it started in marshall, texas but it started before you were a journalist. Something unusual occurred in marshall that taught you about this america. You were the son of one of the poorest people in town anywhere else, in any other time, you wouldnt have had much of a shot. How did it happen that a poor boy got the shot you got . I was the beneficiary of affirmative action for poor, white southern boys. If you studied hard, worked hard, moved around town, met people, there were men particularly men in the town who would say, hes a comer lets help him. Hes a poor boy lets help him. So the rodeo club gave me a scholarship, the City Co
Violent labor strikes were actually an attempt by workers to bring democracy into the workplace by overturning topdown management. He also describes how radical movements in art and literature clashed with the dominant cultural norms of the time. This class is just under an hour. I want to look at the debate in the early 20th century over what is called modernism. How these things work into some of the anxieties we have been talking about really all semester about the rise of modern america and spilling over into the postwar years. Lets look at some quotes from people we have heard from before in the semester to reestablish what the if those was. Walter lippman 1914. He says we can no longer treat life as something that will trickle down to us. We have to deal with it deliberately, devise its social organization formulate its methods, educate and control it. A classic progressive era approach. Chain atoms. Our friend jane adams. She writes, life in the suburbs above all it has been cal
On the development of National Parks, he points out that the parks were established in the 19th century, but there was no one to protect them, or preserve them. He trespasses to keep hunters off them. So the army, really because of the efforts of phil, the commanding general at the time the army steps in and literally saves the National Parks until another organization can be created. For better or worse, the army in the west did much more than just fight indians. The people have historically had a fear of the regular army. From our english traditions, really, and revolutionary war traditions. We fear a Standing Army. Again, it is hard for modern observers to kind of real life because now the military is one of the most trusted institutions in united date. But that wasnt the case in the 19th century. Watch all of our events from Corpus Christi today at 2 00 eastern on cspan3. Next, st. Marys college of maryland professor Charles Holden talks about the modernist art movement, labor unre