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Lectures in history, a university of texas at austin professor teaches an online class about president Ronald Reagan and the end of the cold war. Thank you all for tuning in. We are here with the tattooed historian. My great friend. A little bit in before we dive into the topic which is hygiene and nutrition. Tell us a little bit about who you are, what you bring to the history table. I think you bring a unique perspective and some great ideas. Thank you. , started out as a historian and i went on to work alongside the u. S. Army corps of engineers as a historian and archivist. That, i beganinto a facebook page. I used it as a way to showcase some of the archival things. I was enjoying that process. We were going through the archives and we were trying to find out what was inside of them. This blew up. I was not expecting that. I was expecting to maybe get 100 people to follow along. Facebook. G on, it built up more and more. I went fulltime with this project in april of 2018. I have b
With a little daunting. You do the historian thing speak generally. I guess i think if they are looking at american politics, from the beginning straight through we can even go half of the several work, they areal talking the boat paradoxes and conflicts and improv. Tend to focust i on is the early part of the ark. His improvisational nature of that that really fascinates me more than anything else. The nation was founded and a world of monarchy. The United States is a republic. What that means was a super clear at the moment. People knew that they were trying to do something that wasnt that. Beyond that, theres a lot of open ground. There is a lot of improv in those early decades the boat what the nation is, how it functions, the tone of the government, how this nation is going to stand tough amongst the nation of the world and other kinds of nations. What does it mean to be a republic and a world of monarchy. How is this nation going to get any degree of respect and equally if not mo
Virginia premise collar slavery in virginia. It was usually the most interesting part of the landscape and as a professional chef or 10 years and i found myself in a few spaces for the children had to cook and i realized there were no answers to the questions about their lives and contributions. My work in my book is focused on the 18th to 19th century Plantation Homes than the larger ones. But the ones where where the cook mind of the the cook mightve been a longer set than any, but the ones that they send for it kitchen that was run like a business. Those particulars had a mastery of flavor, the mistress, the wife, so the cook would have to cook for all of them and of course its virginia. All of the culture of hospitality and so they would have to be cooking for neighbors to visit it. There was no social world outside of these Plantation Homes during this period. All of the court shall life involving parties and mary and their children off to the next person down the road and had a v
Peaceful existence with everyone else. Then other group wants sharia law. Host you quote contrary to public misconception islam does not mean peace but rather submission to the commands of allah. Guest what we tried to do is show the people who actually do believe if i said to you, lets go take on the nazis. And you insisted it wasnt about nationalism or socialism you would just say these people are crazy. Well, i dont get to their ideaology and stop them. Hitler was crazy but a lot of people based their understanding of socialism. People in denmark are nazis are they . They were National Socialist and it was that combination that brought us the nazi world. Doesnt make every socialist a nazi. We have to find the people calling for our death, quoting the koran and say we are about islam. We cannot deny what they say. If you want to defeat them you have to know them. Host this is part of your control series. What is that . Guest we did a book on the Second Amendment then we did one on co