Person. I put up here the cover of one of Theodore Dreisers novels, sister carrie, and what we have been considering is a kind of fictional assault, right . On the victorian moral order. In Theodore Dreisers case, in naturalistic fiction. Naturalist writing. The attempt to get close to urban reality and recorded in the form record it in the form of a email adventurer female adventurer. He set his story, as you know, in the booming, bustling town of chicago. And to use chicago as a kind of character in this story, to look at the booms, the busts, the travails of the characters in his novel. Just to summarize where we got last time, we saw the workings of many things. Not just a story, but a kind of commentary on early 20thcentury Century America and especially urban industrial america. We saw the workings of a new economy. The novel itself as a kind of allegory for capitalism and especially consumer culture that was constantly on the move, in which styles, fashions, identities, characte
Andersonville trial. There are some stars that you will recognize. Not just william shatner, but others. Richard basehart plays wirz. Or you can just simply find out. The rundown. Thank you all very much. [applause] the berlin fault fell 25 years ago. We will visit that really a start date next sunday, beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, featuring president george bush from the oval office. Reaction from senate leaders. In a speech from president 197 1963. All weekend American History tv is in Colorado Springs, colorado. Gold was discovered in the mountains surrounding the city in the 1890s. It resulted in one of the richest gold strikes in history. It is hosted by our Comcast Cable partners. Our staff recently visited many sites. To learn more about Colorado Springs, all weekend, here in American History tv. For as long as people have settled and lived in this area, pikes peak has been a marketing tool. We have used it to help identify this location. Pikes peak protrudes out onto the eas
Independent but its not just for peop for people in dearborn. Deer whats his great advantage . Bo how can he distribute this paper . . Pa what does he have . Yeah. He has cars. He has cars. And if you want to sell cars, sell you need then and now need advertising. Tising. Dealerships. Dealerships. Youve got Car Dealerships. And they are beholden to you because they dont do what you ey dont say, you wont let them have any you cars and they wont be able to ha sell them, wont be able to make any money. He but he has a whole string of Car Dealerships and all of those car t dealerships now have to carry yz1 and distribute the dearborn independent. Te so it is going to be a much more more important newspaper than, you know, had he just remained a than very local newspaper in lza dearborn, and he buys the paper and sets it up, gets going in 1919. Its called the dearborn independent but honestly, it wasnt independent at all. Its a free country, call it indep whatever you like, independent, but
Famously formed rabbi rabbi franklin, leo franklin. In the middle of the whole series of antisemitic articles, what do you think franklin did when he got a free card from henry ford . Returned it. You know. You must have the wrong person here. Youre just accusing jews of all sorts of things, how can you offer mo a gift . Henry ford was deeply surprised. Im talking about the jews, im not talking about you. And even though this is humorous to us it does remind us of an important theme in the scholarship, which we talked about early on. The mythical jew and the jew next door. To henry ford, hes the jew next door. Hes highly respected, honorable, an important religious leader. I want to be on good terms with him. Hes an important figure. Ill send him a card. From franklins point of view, if youre writing all of these negative things about jews, then i side with them. But its an interesting k356r78. An interesting example how in the antisesemitic mind you can simultaneously sometimes, you k
And distribute the deerborn independent. So it is going to be a much more important newspaper than you know had he just remained a very local newspaper in deerborn, and he buys the paper and sets it up, gets going in 1919. Its called the deerborn independent but honestly it wasnt independent at all. Its a free country call it whatever you like, independent but it was actually totally dependent on the Ford Motor Company. And not surprisingly if you were to read a run of the paper, its views and the views of henry ford are remarkably similar. That shouldnt surprise us. You know, that would be true of any newspaper that reflects the views of its owners. But the paper is very much in favor of pacifism. It likes prohibition, meaning thateih n its in favor of limiting alcohol, which ford thought was wicked. It supports all sorts of old traditions. One of the most Interesting Articles and the title of the article tells you a lot about the outlook of henry ford is an editorial that was entitle