American progressionism and the coming of the new deal. He argues thattal al smith lost the 1928 election, his ideals and policies paved the way for president roosevelt. Good evening, everyone. Im really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome all of you here for our talk for this evening. Im evan dolley, and on blehalf of the program here, welcome to our history talk. At the outset for being able to hold this talk, thank you to the funding of the history fund which is supporting this event, and let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. So our speaker for this evening is dr. Robert childs. He is a graduate of tascun university. He began a phd in history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012, and the talk hes going to be giving this evening is the result of that phd dissertation, i do believe, yes. He has, during the course of this particular research, or the research for this project, he has received a couple prestigious
The supposed vow of William Randolph hearst to reform spain at the end of the 19th century. This is become over the years an allpurpose media anecdote. Useful in describing any number of media sins and short comings, including the scourge of fake news. Including the scourge of fake news. So what are we talking about here . What are media myths . These are prominent stories about and or by the news media that are widely known and often retold, but which under scrutiny, under examination, dissolve as wildly exaggerated. Media myths. And in a way, media myths are cousins to fake news. We thought of cases of fake news that have mass car aided as accurate for many years media myths. And also they could be thought of sort of the junk food of journalism. The junk food of journalism. Appealing, alluring, delicious, perhaps, but not terribly wholesome and not terribly healthy. The junk food of journalism. Some of the features of media myths, these invariably are pithy tales, suck sink and short
Working knconditions. Welcome back, everybody. As you know, weve been in the guilded age for some time now. And weve already scene the Technological Innovations that made some of this economic expansion possible. We saw both the economic transformations and the effects of those changes in the economy as far as lifestyles, both of the very rich, these opulent robert barren lifestyles on the one hand on on the other hand, of the very poor. Whether it was the People Living in the shacks of the new england mill towns or whether it was when we explored the guild l age city, the increasing problems of housing and of sanitation that came with the cities going along with immigration. And then last time we saw in particular, there was some frustration with this guilded age regime as we talked about the farmers in this period. That really could have been called discontent in the guilded age part one, but today, we turn our attention mostly back toward industry and in some way, back toward the ci
Term,tly aware is a corny ok . But we live in a society that is in need of that quality, and many historians serve as officers in their universities, as officers in their colleges, and officers in their department. We when we were on graduate school, no one ever said anything about that subject. None of us were trained to be Department Chairs. No none of us were trained to be dealings deans. And none of us were trying to be historians. I mean, historians. [laughter] oh dear. Pa so, we thought this would be an interesting panelnel that you would like because we have a number of distinguished president s who are historians and most of us it is a little awkward because most of those are greeting each other because we know each other as historians. We have seen drew and earl and ed on panels, giving papers. We have read their books. Here they are as president s former president of the university, president of the university, president at one of the major universities of the United States,
Welcome back, everybody. We have been in the gilded age we have time now and already seen the Technological Innovations that made some of this economic expansion possible. Economicth the transformation and the effect of those changes in the economy as far as lifestyles, these opulent robber baron lifestyles and the very poor, whether it was People Living in the shacks of the new england mill towns or whether it was when we explored the gilded age city, the increasing problems of housing and sanitation that came with this rapid and chaotic growth of the citys in the 19th century, all of it accompanied by problems going along with immigration. Time, there was some this new gilded age regime as we talk about the farmers. That lecture could have been called discontent in the gilded age part one but today, we turn our attention back toward industry and back toward the cities as well. I want to let at different types of frustration with this new order in america. Eightarted with the song hou