Conversations with History - James Wright

American Democracy, Veterans, and Higher Education
James Wright, President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History, Dartmouth College

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Dartmouth's James Wright, President Emeritus and Eleazar Wheelock Professor of History, for a discussion of his work as a historian and as President of an Ivy League college. Topics covered include: his formative years, his research on populism in the Western U.S. in the 19th century, leadership in higher education, and challenges facing public and private universities in the new economic environment. President Wright also discusses his work in aiding Afghanistan and Iraq War veterans to pursue higher education. He places these efforts in the historical context of American democracy's ambivalent relationship to veterans from the time of the revolution to the present.

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[JeffDavis0]

Why the silly music? At least use the sounds of the Berkeley carillon, which housed in the openings of Sather Tower, shown at the outset of this video.

[brandogb1]

I am a student going to school in Galena, its amazing that a student from Galena became President of Dartmouth.