Behind those pictures to study and understand the American West, she has been studying and writing about photographs for 40 years, and argued that more historians should use photographic archives in their work. One minute past 12 30. Welcome, everyone. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend, marnie sandweiss. Im going to give you a version of what i have been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. We will present this room as a vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and marnies work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. Us leadheaded thinkers turned into golden tongued scholars, writers, and teachers. Picture a process that works Something Like this. An Admissions Committee imagines a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while, they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden th
It is a good company should because, right now, it is the 100th anniversary of one of the most infamous scandals in baseball history, the black sox scandal, where members of the Chicago White sox were accused of throwing the world series to the cincinnati reds. It brought about many changes in baseball, including getting a commissioner and eight players on the white sox banned from baseball for life, but the story of that is not really a simple one. It is very complicated. So the title of tonights talk is called field of myths 100 years after baseballs 1919 black sox scandal, so it should be a fascinating talk. I am excited to welcome david pietrusza, our speaker tonight. David we are gathered here on the eve of this years world series, and 100 years ago, who knew if there were going to be another world series . Once that scandal was exposed, and trust in baseball was starting to evaporate very rapidly, and as david said, that is, you know, eight men out. That is the story we know. Tha
Test the panel about our history, as we are now in the Public Relations and much more world wide awareness of mississippi and some of our challenges just like every other issue around the world. Whether they would support removing the federate battle flag as a way to move in our future like you alluded to in your question. A good question, we we will see if people are willing to answer it. [laughter] if we can start with casey. Will after the social Movement Days he became a politician and went to the state legislature and one of the pieces of legislation that he worked to get past was the changing of the state flag. Well in the book, i say the boat to keep the flag was an early 21st century century insult to the black population of mississippi. Certainly i would support changing the flag in the first referendum of that along with all the other has professional historians in the state issued a press release that was read on the Capitol Steps endorsing a new flag. Thats my answer. Talk
Minutes will be back with more live coverage of the mississippi book festival. If you want to see the schedule of events go to book tv. Org or you can visit the mississippi book festival website at ms book festival. Com. First heres more book tvs visit to jackson last year. When i was a writer i think i said in the south that i take for what i know for granted and i feel like i am judged because my eyes have been cleaned by experience so i know where a. M. I have a base to see people moving in that clear lights were in jackson mississippi it is a National Historical landmark and wealthy was a writer she was born in 1909 and died in 2001. She was a writer who won just about every literary prize there was. She studied throughout the world really published in many languages, she wrote wrote short short stories. That was the form she most value. She had four collections of short stories in total in just over 50 stories of that collection. There is onenr writers beginning to look at the tim
Yvonne the titan iis mission was peace through deterrent. Our job was to project a credible threat. To be here every day demonstrating to the soviet union that even if they launched a surprise first strike against us, we would be able to ride that out and retaliate quickly and with enough force to devastate the soviet union, even if they launched their missiles first. We are at the Titan Missile museum 25 miles south of downtown tucson. We are in the Launch Control center of the missile site. That is essentially the nerve center of the missile site itself. From here, using all this equipment, the crew has a birds eye view of the condition of the missile and the missile site. Then it is also from here that the crew would launch the missile if they were ordered to do so. So, in order to launch a titan ii missile, the crew needs a number of things. First of all they have to , receive a launch order that will tell them to execute their missile and what time they will do that. In order for