umass amherst. umass amherst. i admired the chronological focus and geographical focus, which as i know required in this nomination. also what i admire is the way you use this to exemplify something much larger and more global. what stephen morrison said. you have someone that goes to jail because he does not want to pay his poll now we do have abo0 tax to expand for slavery. thoreau.s inspired by this global conversation that can very birmingham,how this in two years and a couple square birmingham, in two years and a couple square miles, really exemplifies. >> would you care to respond? >> that is dirty business. >> birmingham that is an excellt observation. uses simply connected -- you succinctly connected those strands of protest. is civil rights movement is informed by the struggles in india, which were informed by the resistance of thoreau, or the efficacy of tolstoy and other proponents of nonviolent resistance. out of birmingham will come support for other nonviolent protests around the globe. the civil rig

umass amherst. umass amherst. i admired the chronological focus and geographical focus, which as i know required in this nomination. also what i admire is the way you use this to exemplify something much larger and more global. what stephen morrison said. you have someone that goes to jail because he does not want to pay his poll now we do have abo0 tax to expand for slavery. thoreau.s inspired by this global conversation that can very birmingham,how this in two years and a couple square birmingham, in two years and a couple square miles, really exemplifies. >> would you care to respond? >> that is dirty business. >> birmingham that is an excellt observation. uses simply connected -- you succinctly connected those strands of protest. is civil rights movement is informed by the struggles in india, which were informed by the resistance of thoreau, or the efficacy of tolstoy and other proponents of nonviolent resistance. out of birmingham will come support for other nonviolent protests around the globe. the civil rig

>> david blasberg from umass amherst.admired the chronological focus and geographical focus, which as i know required in this nomination. also what i admire is the way you use this to exemplify something much larger and more global. this echoes what stephen morrison said. you have someone that goes to jail because he does not want to pay his poll tax to expand slavery. gandhi is inspired by thoreau. who then inspires martin luther king. all of these african leaders who are also pushing for decolonization at the same period the american civil rights is doing it thing. there is this global conversation that can very nicely show how this birmingham, in two years and a couple square miles, really exemplifies. hopefully you will be doing that in the nomination. >> would you care to respond? >> that is dirty business. >> that is an excellent observation. you succinctly connected those strands of protest. is civil rights movement is informed by the struggles in india, which were informed by the resistance of thoreau, or the effi

an initial workshop held at umass amherst that had about 30 historians, journalists, science communicators, coming together to build a curriculum that would sort of model what the science communication programs have done but applied to history. there was then a follow-up workshop in washington, d.c., in washington of 2016 that really put the meat on the bones of that and actually spelled out week by week how that course would unfold. and you con find that course at historycommunication.com. our website. for the history communication sort of movement. so any and all of you who are in universities and would like to bring that course to your home university, we would encourage you to visit that website, grab the syllabus. you can also grab the syllabus for the umass course that was taught last year off of their website and adapt it to your home university and bringing in specialists and scholars that you have in your area. but we would love to see this grow and continue to expand to other universities across the country. as i mentioned, we also now have history communication fellows at the la

an initial workshop held at umass amherst had about 30 journalists science communicators coming together to build a curriculum that would model what the science programs have done but apply to history. there was a follow-up workshop in washington, d.c. in august of 2016 that really put the meat on the bones of that and actually spelled out week by week how the course would unfold and you can find that course at history communication.com. our website for the history communication movement. so any and all of you who are in universities and would like to bring that course to your home university, we would encourage you to visit that website and grab the syllabus and the umass course taught last year and adapt it to your home university and bringing in scholars and specialists in your area. but we would love to see this grow and continue to expand to other universities across the country and as i mentioned, we also now have history communication fellows at the lapage center at villanova. that's another great avenue for training, giving students on the job experience putting together a podcas