Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan 3. You are watching American History tv. Every weekend on cspan 3, explore our nations past. Created by americas Cable Television companies as a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. Next on American History tv, to bestselling authors discuss how they use Historical Research in their work. Novelist Kathleen Rouhanis latest as the world war one story, and miles harvey focuses on his new nonfiction book, the king of confidence. The conversation was moderated by the Paul University professor amy tyson. Authors roomy and harvey boast teach in the pauls English University department. They provided the video. Hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining us tonight and this is an of vent hosted by the English Department of dePaul University and coast by the Depaul History Department. Its a thrill to get to host with them, to real stalwarts of the English Department, Kathleen Rouhani and miles harvey. Amazing writ
Depaul English Department and cohosted by Depaul History Department. Its a thrill to get to host an event with two real stalwarts of the English Department, Kathleen Rooney and miles harvey. Amazing writers and researchers. Were very grateful to have amy tyson from the Depaul History Department to present and interview them. I also want to thank all of you especially for being here. Its always so meaningful to feel support for artists and the arts. During this difficult time when bombast and quick takes seem to rule the day, a lot of us recognize its the quieter, more thoughtful creations that actually sustain us. So, that said, i would encourage you, if you like what you hear tonight, to please support these great writers. I will both links to their books in the chat and i know theyre on display at the depaul bookstore in lincoln park. We do have one technical issue or constraint that i would ask your help with, potentially. We are limited to 100 participates tonight and i see were at
Kaiser this is the report you know humanity is looking up actually. This is the thing i like about very poor and decline because as Paul Tudor Jones said hes that Hedge Fund Billionaire and heres the headline to remind you of what he said Billionaire Hedge Fund manager Paul Tudor Jones a bet on bitcoin is a bet on human ingenue at. So we have to show you know we listen to all sorts of heterodox thinkers who imagine better worlds who imagine things can get better who always you know have faith in humanity that humanity at the end of the day will always rise above the elite and what the elite always want to crush innovation and ingenuity and things like that because they want to solidify their hold on power right so you know which when we look at what has happened in the United States with coded for example in the response. Keyser for very early on we spoke to bruce fenton hes a big queen are and what did he say he he was one of the early ists ive known we got prepared because of him in
The head of the International Red cross warns that vaccines wont solve all the problems with the virus. Those are your headlines ill be back with another look in just under an hours time this is our international but have you with us. The report you know humanity is looking up actually. This is the thing i like about very poor and decline because as Paul Tudor Jones said hes that Hedge Fund Billionaire and heres the headline to remind you of what he said Billionaire Hedge Fund manager Paul Tudor Jones a bet on bitcoin is a bet on human ingenue at. So we have to show you know we listen to all sorts of heterodox thinkers who imagine better worlds who imagine things can get better who always you know have faith in humanity that humanity at the end of the day will always rise above the elites and what the elite always want to crush innovation and ingenuity and things like that because they want to solidify their hold on power right so you know which when we look at what has happened in the
Possibly be given the truly crazy world in which we live at the moment. Im scott henkel, im the director of wyoming institute for Humanities Research and im so happy to welcome you to tonights think and drink. The topic of which is, pandemics in historical perspective. So, im so happy to introduce dr. Melissa morris, who is assistant professor of history and american studies here at the university of wyoming and a member of the Humanities Research institutes steering committee, who will be our moderator tonight and who will introduce our speakers. So, please, welcome. Thank you, scott. Thank you to all of our panelists for agreeing to participate, who i know are in later time zones. So, thank you for sticking with us. And, of course, to all of you out there tuning in in some form or another. Im just going to do a brief introduction to our panelists and then ill let them each talk for a couple of minutes more about how their work intersects with our theme tonight. First we have Michael