Youre welcome to our event series. Before i start, i want to mention real quick, if you have questions tonight, you ask us in the chat box or comments on the youtube page, and well get to as many as we can. If youre interested in purchasing the book, and i hope that you do, you can find it at most major retailers, but we like to point people toward bookshop. Org where you can find just about any book youre looking for and support independent booksellers across the country. Again, thats bookshop. Org. Please give them a look. I mentioned to someone the other day that i was reading the senates words in preparation for the event tonight, and they said, oh, thats the new faulkner biography. I said, well, you got the faulkner part right. The best way i can describe this book is equal parts. Literary history, social commentary and literary criticism. I think it will band to either of those subjects. What the book really did for me was force me to give serious thought on where faulkner stands
Bush pushed president world war wilson watch beginning at eight eastern and enjoy American History tv every weekend on cspan 3. In 1915, the president Woodrow Wilson place the memorable box in the cornerstone at the memorial 105 years later, in april 2020, the box was carefully removed and opened to discover what was inside. Next on american artifacts, we visit arlington to see the contents with cemetery historians tim frank and conservator caitlin smith. In order to talk about this member label and cornerstone we really have to take you back to 1864, and bringing forward to 1950. In 1864 we buried the first soldier here, private william, in may of 1864, and one month later, the secretary of war satisfy 200 acres to become a national secretary. By the end of the civil war, there were 15,000 union and confederate soldiers buried here, and in 1868, general john logan who come under the grand army of the republic, the Civil War Veterans Organization established Decoration Day, which he de
Preparation for the event tonight and they said that is the new faulkner biography. I said well, you got the faulkner part right. The best way i can describe this book is equal parts military history, social commentary, and literary criticism. And i think it will appeal equally to fans of any of those subjects. What the book really did for me is force me to give some serious thought to where faulkner stands at a time when we are asking ourselves some difficult and longoverdue questions about our countrys historic difficulties when it comes to matters of race. Was he something of a pioneer on those issues or was he or another white writer profiting off of racist caricatures of black americans . Dr. Michael gorra, as you might imagine, has some thoughts on that. He is a professor of English Literature at Smith College in massachusetts. He is the author of several books including portrait of a novel, the making of an american masterpiece, which was a finalist for the pool surprise and bio
The scope of what we are talking about when we are talking about changes in policing. Instead of focusing primarily on reform, there are conversations about defunding or shrieking or abolishing the police, fundamentally changing the institution of the police and what they do. Data is really being proffered in many ways as this sort of panacea or Silver Bullet with many of these issues. In the defunding debate, lets say we are going to defund the cut costs. People say data can be used to allocate resources more efficiently. Or lets reduce racial bias and officer decisionmaking. Lets automate it. Or you want to reduce the categorical suspicion of young black males and more accurately predict crime, try predictive algorithms. I think we need to be cautious , when we using data are trying to solve social problems with technological solutions. The first thing i would suggest in moving forward is that we pause,moment to stop, to and really invert the order of operations of what has been goin
Historian tim frank and caitlin smith. In order to talk about this, i really have to take you back to 1964, in 1864 we bury the first soldier here, in may of 1864, and then one month later we set aside 200 acres to set aside for national cemetery. There were 15,000 confederate soldiers buried here. In 1868 general john logan established Decoration Day, which he declared may 30th of every year. The idea was that throughout the country people would visit the graves of the civil war fallen and placed flowers on their graves. Decoration day eventually became memorial day. It became so popular that in 1873, quartermaster general Montgomery Meigs held to Decoration Day ceremonies, and at the time it became a small venue. Every year thousands of people would show up to arlington. One year we found that 25,000 people showed up to decorate the graves, so in 1913 congress authorize this memorial amphitheater where we are standing. And in 1950, is part of the laying of the cornerstone, this memor