the transcontinental railroad was, no doubt, a major disruptive form of transportation. truly changing the face of the nation. it may or may not have reached its potential. but for many years, it was talked about. we learned this morning, it may have had less of an impact initially upon completion than we thought. get a feel of how it affected the nation, we have professor james campbell. yous campbell is the great robinson professor of u.s. history at stanford university. he focuses on african-american history. he is also interested in problems of historical memory or the ways that society tells stories about the past. butonly in textbooks, museums, memorials, movies, and political movement. the african methodist episcopal , and african-american journeys. book on theting a mississippi summer project. he is one of our most distinguished historians at stanford. please welcome james campbell. [applause] prof. campbell: thank you very much for those are marks. one of them feel
prof. parker: we talked about jim crow on modes of public the consumer sphere. just a quick question, why do you imagine such sites of targets, department stores, marshall field in chicago, now a macy s. everything is now a macy s. why do you imagine these are important? for making claims for civil rights? it included a lot of middle-class stuff, like higher reflected in society. prof. parker: anyone else? [indiscernible] it was very important to look the part of the citizen, so being able to spend money in places that folk of middle-class respectability and spoke of middle-class citizenship was important to portray yourself as a middle-class citizen. prof. parker: on a most basic level you walk into one of these places that looked like museums of consumption, palaces, it is important to note the ceiling here is done by tiffany s. it is in gold. these are places that are just, in the early 20th century, they are places of luxury. so you go to the department store ha
rick cogan. and with chicago great fire. and and please join me, please welcome rick hogan. you are good to come out on a hot day like this. a big part of this book, the paperback edition was just out and in the current of that addition, simply put, the best book ever written about my father who i admired tremendously wrote a book about the fire and i still say this. my brother is here. where we have run out of things, you knew my dad. i came to chicago, just finished graduate school in yale in newhaven connecticut. what i was most interested in was history and culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. and we ve got this job on northwestern. i was teaching a heavy load but in the spring, i went to teach a course on chicago literature and i don t remember the exact way it happened and somehow before the internet and emails, there he is. your book is better. sitting upstairs at the chicago press club, ordered a chicken salad and pineapple, the only t
and and please join me, please welcome rick hogan. you are good to come out on a hot day like this. a big part of this book, the paperback edition was just out and in the current of that addition, simply put, the best book ever written about my father who i admired tremendously wrote a book about the fire and i still say this. my brother is here. where we have run out of things, you knew my dad. i came to chicago, just finished graduate school in yale in newhaven connecticut. what i was most interested in was history and culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. and we ve got this job on northwestern. i was teaching a heavy load but in the spring, i went to teach a course on chicago literature and i don t remember the exact way it happened and somehow before the internet and emails, there he is. your book is better. sitting upstairs at the chicago press club, ordered a chicken salad and pineapple, the only thing that is edible and just enthused and
welcome to the 30 sixth annual planning board, please help me give a special thank you to all the sponsors. before we begin. and the camera flashes. i will introduce today, in conversation proud smith with rick cogan. and with chicago great fire. and and please join me, please welcome rick hogan. you are good to come out on a hot day like this. a big part of this book, the paperback edition was just out and in the current of that addition, simply put, the best book ever written about my father who i admired tremendously wrote a book about the fire and i still say this. my brother is here. where we have run out of things, you knew my dad. i came to chicago, just finished graduate school in yale in newhaven connecticut. what i was most interested in was history and culture in the second half of the nineteenth century. and we ve got this job on northwestern. i was teaching a heavy load but in the spring, i went to teach a course on chicago literature and i don t