Of reconstruction. I would suggest that probably very few of you could pick these rebels out of the group. William sylvan died young, so there could be a reason why youd dont William Sylvis died very young, said there could be a reason why you dont recognize them. Red cloud yes, most of you recognize him. He won a war against the u. S. Government, and he had largely been written out of American History. And you might have a shot of recognizing Susan B Anthony or elizabeth caddy stanton. These are not faces that you would know if you think about reconstruction or you think about the reconstruction days. These are people you read about in your textbooks that you dont think about them in popular culture. Lets try this. The marlboro man has been recognized in every single country in the world, and i will talk more about the marble man marlboro man in a moment. The image that everybody in america and most people in the world recognize is the american cowboy. The american cowboy operates fro
Bring something new to it. You are in for a treat. Now, as a narrative historian rather than a art historian or art history professor, what i do is write books. In order to do that, i look at the topography of the past and i try to identify fault lines that other people have not seen. This book is a case in point. Eight years ago, i had a conversation with my editor. I just finished a book about Thomas Jefferson and the early days of architecture. She said to me what to do you want to do next . I had a couple of have ideas which i described to her. She very nicely said, i do not think so. [laughter] do you have anything else . I was completely at this point. I said, well, in writing about their early architects i discovered that peele cap to these amazing journals. She kept all of his letters. A wonderful resource about everything to do with culture the late 18th century. He painted thousands of the founding fathers. So, i said in connection with that, John Trumbull wrote an autobiogra
The Gilded Age, which spanned roughly from the late 1870s to the early 1900s, was a time of rapid industrialization, economic growth, and prosperity for the wealthy. It was also a time of exploitation and extreme poverty for workers.
BERLIN No, I did not explode firecrackers for July 4th (nor on New Year’s Eve either, when private rockets fill Berlin skies). Here, too, I am safely distant from the AR-15-armed mass shooters who terrorized cities across the U.S. this holiday weekend.
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