I am a friend of the book possible. And festival. And it is my pleasure to welcome you today to the goldens presentation on the new book. They secretly exploit the universities. And if they have any more room on the book jacket they wouldve added an done so relentlessly. A few brief announcements. In the mess medicine and that medicine Public Library foundation into all of our sponsors you can see theman individually lists did on the llvarious publications. You know enough to turn off your Electronic Devices but if you take photos and want to post to the social media please use the hashtag wi book fest. There will be a questionandanswer after this talk. Viewing audience. Daniel golden has done serious and important work. He is currently one of the six senior editors with the newsroom which has as an official Mission Statement to explosive abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust using the moral force of Investigative Journalism to spur reform. I think we are safe in assuming t
Historical Society Shows us some of the artifacts from the bombing. We are in the basement of the Wisconsin Historical society where we house our museum collection. We are going to look at artifacts related to the Sterling Hall bombing of 1970. Sterling hall is the Physics Department at the university of wisconsin campus. It house the Army Mathematics Research Center in 1970. The Mathematics Research center was a think tank for the army, created in 1957 to find ways to improve access to the and many enemy, in this case the vietnam war enemy, and also to provide more weapons. While the madison campus was in general,for the war in they tended to focus a lot of hate not hate but their uncomfortableness and anger at the Army Mathematics Research Center. They thought they were creating , not theo destroy enemy being soldiers, but also civilians. They felt that this was not a good way to approach more war. These were mathematicians doing math to figure out how to improve ratios. They did not
2 3 could be reelected at least. We are at the Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters in madison, deep in the archives stacks where the public never gets to go. Mrs. Is what the inside of archives look like, silk with boxes of unpublished paper filled with boxes of unpublished taper. This was donated by the family of proxmire. He is best for membered for the Golden Fleece award. He was a senator from wisconsin who took the seat of joe mccarthy when mccarthy left office in 1957. Won inone in 1958 1978 1958. One of the most remarkable dedicated towas clean government. He thought the Campaign Financing was one of the major sources of corruption. He spent as little as possible. Two elections, refuse to spend any money at all. He managed to get elected because his constituents loved him. ,e mustve had iron hands because he was standing on sidewalks everywhere, shaking hands or giving speeches to local groups. Thousands of government voters felt like they had a personal relationship with
University of wisconsin madison. In the middle of an exhibition thend world work i 1914, came armageddon. It highlights the collections at the University Library system as well from the Wisconsin Historical society. Different artifacts related to not only wisconsins role in the war but also what was happening in each country when the conflict began in the summer of 1914. The war broke out in the summer 1914 after france ferdinand, the archduke and air to the austrohungarian throne was assassinated by a member of a serbian military group called the black hand. His goal was to bring all serbs together in one country, independent of us of austrohungarian empire. Austria put pressure on serbia to allow them to conduct an investigation. Serbia acquiesced on all of austrias demands, except that austria be able to use their own police in serbian territory. This led to a standoff and a military confrontation when austria most real mobilized against serbia, russia declared that they would help
I want the start out my talk with two quotes. Um, theyre both from the prologue of my book, and ill give a little explanation for them, um, but they introduce why i decided to write book. So the first quote is in my own prose from the prologue. We still hold certain truths about africanamericans to be selfevident; that the phrase 19th Century Black americans refers to enslaved people. That the, that new york state before the civil war denotes a place of freedom, that blacks in this new york city designates harlem, that the black community posits a classless and culturally unified society, that a black elite did not exist until well into the 20th century. The lives of my new york forebearers belies such assumptions. They were born free at a time when slavery was still legal in new york state. They lived in racialtymixed neighborhoods, first in Lower Manhattan and then after the civil war in brooklyn at a time when harlem was a mere village. They were part of new yorks small but Signific