Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 thats the job for a historian. Most historians, if they think about photographs at all, focus on them as images not material objects and as illustrations rather than as primary sources that can and should themselves be the subject of historical analysis. Watch ken burns 1996 series on the west and Pay Attention to his treatment of the pueblo revolt of 1680. While he uses engravings of spaniards it to visual issize the story he relies on 19th and 20th century sorry gave away my story there, trying to highlight this picture here, he relies on 19th and 20th century photographs to depict the pueblo protagonists. This approach conveys an insidious image. European people change with time. One would never use images from two centuries later to depict them, but native peoples live on in an unchanging past, a photograph made 240 years later is just fine. We are susceptible to this historical use of photographs when we do not know better. I
Behind those pictures to study and understand the American West, she has been studying and writing about photographs for 40 years, and argued that more historians should use photographic archives in their work. One minute past 12 30. Welcome, everyone. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend, marnie sandweiss. Im going to give you a version of what i have been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. We will present this room as a vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and marnies work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. Us leadheaded thinkers turned into golden tongued scholars, writers, and teachers. Picture a process that works Something Like this. An Admissions Committee imagines a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while, they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden th
12 30 p. M. Welcome. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. We will present this room and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us leadheaded thinkers turned into scholars and teachers. The process works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little bit because she came to yale to study with Harold Lamarr a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that ragtag group in american studies. [applause] not a cohort exactly. We did become friends, puzzling throughdings, yawning brilliant, but sometimes excruciating seminars. Western history, some of you may know, was taught in the basement. And on frid
One minute past 12 30. Welcome, everyone. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend, marnie sandweiss. Iven of what i have been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. We will present this room as a vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. Thinkers leadheaded turned into golden tongued scholars, writers, and teachers. Picture a process that works Something Like this. An Admissions Committee imagines a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while, they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little bit yaleuse marnie came to to study with Harold Lamarr a year after me, and she was in the History Department, and i was in that ragtag group in american studies. [cheers and applause] not a cohort, exactly. We
Court, and Public Policy events from washington, d. C. And around the country so you can make up your own mind. Created by cable in 1979. Cspan is brought to you by your local or cable satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. The cspan cities tour is exploring the american story, as we take book tv and American History tv on the road. With the support of our link by all teas cable partners, this weekend we travel to charleston, West Virginia. Coming up in the next hour and a half, we will visit notable locations and speak with experts about the citys history, including a home dating back to the early settlement of charleston. Then in about an hour, we will tour West Virginias capital building. Later, we hear the true life story of the movie Hidden Figures. In an africanamerican woman played in putting a man on the moon. We begin our special feature with a visit to the state history museum. Welcome to the West Virginia state museum at the state Cultural Center in c