judeo-christian morals, especially sexual standards often characterized as victorian. that is what we will start talking about today, the culture of the 1950 s in moving our way toward the 1960 s and the cultural revolution. historians have paid more attention to the ways in which what is often regarded as the 1960 s cultural revolution had its seeds planted in the 1950 s. i will describe what the old culture was like. sometimes referred to as the torian, sort of the shared anglo-american culture of the 19th and into the 20th centuries. the little piece that i gave you from william o neill s book on america in 1945 describes the cultural assumptions of americans of this generation. victorianism is today considered conservative in that it is kind of a derogatory term, considered puritanical, old-fashioned, retrograde, but much like the term liberalism, victorianism was actually liberalism of its day. in the 19th century, it really was in advance of premodern cultural patterns.
the birmingham, alabama, public library hosted this talk. in the days following the murders of the pulse nightclub in orlando, like a lot of people i was following the news accounts and reading what i could find to read and trying to make some sense of what had happened. in doing that, i came across an editorial online by nancy unger. that short editorial helps me understand the importance of gay bars and clubs in a way i had never understood before as gathering places. and as places of activism and places of great significance in american history. i decided that day we had to bring nancy unger to birmingham so she should could so she could s share so she could share her insight. nancy unger is professor of history at the santa clara university where she began her course on gays and lesbians in u.s. history in 2004. the simple class can be seen on the c-span online library. her work on lgbtq history is featured in her 2012 book you want nature s housekeepers. american
a captive audience. you can work with them in so many different ways to make sure that you do more and get that recidivism rate down to the 20 percent where taxpayers are no longer paying 30 some thought to 530 some odd thousand dollars a year to house these people. it is a win - win for everyone involved. the notion of talking about reentry and figuring out practical solutions is something we need to continue to dialogue as we go forward. thank you for that. we have time for two really good and short questions. [applauding] [inaudible question] and if you look at the issue of wrongful convictions, it is clear that wrongful convictions more likely affect african-americans and other minority groups. so if we we are talking about bringing an end to mass incarceration, shouldn t we be talking about bringing an end to wrongful convictions? i think we would like to invite a comment on that. just before we get there, before you get to the prosecutor you often get to lineups
year into indefinite detention people are willing to confess to anything in order to get there case moved into the court system. you see people get to court and want to repudiate their confession. of course, what does the court turned around and do? you can t repudiate. repudiate. i think that it is true that we didn t we do tend to assume that people detained are guilty. if you look at the number, in fact, it is not actually true. there is an earlier stage in which they accept the case. they used to give us those numbers in the annual report they have stopped doing it for whatever reason, but in the old days about half of those initially investigated never ended up with an indictment. what i assume is lot of those people end up getting an administrative punishment because it is determined they have not really committed a major offense. what we don t know is how many of those people get off because they are determined to be not guilty. but i think you are absolutely right.
heard of that. we all remember typhoid mary of lore and she had the ability to infect people. do your typhoid marys have the ability to infect people when they re asymptomatic? we don t know. that s the question. typhoid mary, in the case of her, she was dealing with a bacterial infection. right. what i do know for a fact, there have been a number of asymptomatic non-febrill people whose blood has been drawn and they tested positive. i think there is something about the pcr test. in medicine, you never say 100%. the thing with ebola, if you don t bat 1 wh00 every day, it exposed. my point is we need go to africa and fight the disease over there and keep it contained. two of your doctors were infected and weren t sure why. we had two nurses in dallas and were infected and we re not sure why. that underscores there is a lot more not known about this disease and is known and i would extend that to mr. waxman, we all need humility on this. and what you did in dallas to h