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By the railroad. Today were going to have two perspectives, one on the Chinese Railroad workers and another on native americans. Please hold your audience questions. Were going to have our two speakers on this topic give their presentations, and then were going to sit down and have a little chat in front of you here on the chairs. Then we will have opportunity for the audience to raise questions. So to start out our program, were going to talk about the Chinese Railroad workers, and our presenter is hilton obenzinger. He has been a lecturer at Stanford University in american studies and english and associate director for honors and advanced writing. He received his doctorate from the modern thought in Literature Program at stanford. Hes a critic, a poet ....
Those cultures forever impacted by the railroad. Today were going to have two perspectives, one on the Chinese Railroad workers and another on native americans. Please hold your audience questions. Were going to have our two speakers on this topic give their presentations, and then were going to sit down and have a little chat in front of you here on the chairs. Then we will have opportunity for the audience to raise questions. So to start out our program, were going to talk about the Chinese Railroad workers, and our presenter is hilton obenzinger. He has been a lecturer at Stanford University in american studies and english and associate director for honors and advanced writing. He received his doctorate from the modern thought in Literature Program a ....
Leadership, ideas but principally people who inspired and motivated him. Its a pleasure to welcome as our panel from my left to right, the author of the political life of Abraham Lincoln, volume i, a selfmade man, sidney blumenthal. And Richard Brook hihiser, and finally, the author not only of the recently published american ulysses, the life of ulysses s. Grant but the author of a. Lincoln and an expert in lincolns writings, ronald a. White. Welcome to you all. So our goal today is to hear from you and see if we can evoke some differences of opinion. We will certainly welcome audience participation and questions from our usual microphone. In fact, i will give you a signal in about 20 minutes or so to encourage you to line up and engage with us. The first person i want to talk to in relation to lincolns inspiration are the three sets of parents, really, not one person but th ....
With your families or friends . Here are the phone numbers. You can also share your thoughts on social media. The question this morning is whether or not this president ial election and the debates over have caused a rift with your family or friends. Research from the pew research center. They ask how many of your Close Friends support the opposing candidate . Some of this debate is taking place online. Data fromto this Online Harassment dated. Org they also ask whether politics play a role in who was being harassed this year. Politics being an important debate online and amongst family and friends at the Kitchen Table this year. We spoke recently with the institute of civil discourse from arizona and we asked about the state of political discourse in the country this year. The civility in our politics and in our commun ....
This is an hour and 15 minute event. Now, lets get to todays topic, which i am glad we did because it seems to have struck a chord. U. S. President s who owned slaves while were creating this instrument and democracy, they were leaders who had people enslaved, and we are honored to have dr. Tyler parry, with an a. I just want to tell you a little bit about him. Dr. Parry received his bachelors of arts from the university of nevada and 2008 and earned his masters degree in 2011 and his phd in 2014 in history from the university of South Carolina. He is currently revising his manuscript entitled love and marriage, domestic relations and matrimonial strategies among the slaves and atlantic world. That intrigues me to no end. His Research Examines the degree to which diaspora africans and their americanborn dissidence recreated their marital rights in the americas. Utilizing m ....