Mrs. Young is a historian and independent scholar who previously taught at princeton university. [applause]. Scenic good evening and thanks for coming out tonight. I thank you for that introduction, which does a nice job of setting up my talk for today. This project began as a dissertation when i was at columbia. I went to graduate school to be a 19th century southern history historian, so i was a bit surprised to find myself writing about a barely recent historical moment. As i was in graduate school during the george w. Bush years a lot of historians were asking questions about how to explain the bush presidency. In particular, the promise of religious social conservativism and there was kind of a first wave of historiography coming out about the religious right and it tended to make this argument that religious conservatives became a unified political constituency in the 1970s and 80s, basically around these questions of abortion and issues of equal rights in the 70s and so this was
The Newman Foundation at Harvard University established the annual j. Anthony lukas worrieds in 1998 and recently announces this years finalists for works in progressnonfiction writing and history. The first award is for unfinished books. The finalist include sasha eisenberg, whose writing history of samesex marriage in america, and author steve luxenburg who is looking at the end of segregation in the united states. Another works in progress finalist is steve one who is researching the creation of National Public raid youre, and Meredith Wadman is examining cells used to develop vaccines. The lukas prize give awards for knock fiction writings. Finalizes including adam brigles, guide to fracking, which reports on thefts of a texas town to stop an oil companys use of hydraulic fracturing. Two dollars a day look at extreme poverty in america and the book reports on how newark, new Jersey School system used the donation of 100 million from facebook founder mark sucker beryl. Other finalis
Management consulting firms and law mitt romney r firms, and these are in many ways, i call them the baby business elites. They are very, very prestigious position. Also those that involve high levels of economic rewards in terms of salaries. Theyre other types of elites. Im really looking at business elites, so the people who are in the most prestigious and rewarding segments. What kind of parent is a good parent, theyll describe someone exactly like themselves, and i think theres something going on there in terms of when you ask people who are in positions of power in society, what merit, theyll give a definition that it is strikingly similar to whatever they are. Its true in other segments of society as well. We have these similar to me but one thing that contributes. Host walk us through a case study how an elite student gets an elite job. Guest yes, so, in general, the types of occupations im studying, getting entry level job straight out of Business School or law school in an eli
Presents his second book, invisible the untoward untold story of africanamericans in the white house. Hes a nationally recognized journalist and Media Authority who as contributed hundreds of articles in African American history, politics, news. He makes regular appearances on cspans washington journal, abcs news now, and evening exchange. He is also longstanding contributor and a political reporter for the Associated Press and a Supreme Court correspondence. In his first book, he pointed out the many iconic buildings and structures and monuments including the capital zone statue of freedom that was constructed at least in part by enslaved black men. In his latest offering, he lays his focus on the extensive and historically overlooked roles that africanamericans have played in the history of the white house. Of our first, 10 were slave owners. And revealing how little tribute has been given for the contributions of enslaved persons to the normal functioning of our early american insti
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