course – Audibly Speaking: A Site of History and Memory

How should we think about the danger and possible utility (?) of “Artificial Intelligence,” that increasingly out-of-control oxymoron?  Maybe a report from the field is in order as we begin to look at this question.  This is that report from the field, or at least a beginning of one.  We may have to start early because we have no time to waste, for the sake of student learning, in getting this right.

This is your narrator for this series, Dr. Rick Reiman. Americans know too little about the Early American Republic, the Republic of President Thomas Jefferson, leading to the War of 1812 and its aftermath, the Era of Good Feelings.  In this overview of Chapter 7 from The American Yawp, I summarize its major themes.  This will benefit my students, who must complete a Major Project in which they identify the major fractures in American life and politics from the 1780s through this major period in American history.

Your professor, Dr. Reiman, continues his narration of this classic novel, with “The Mail,” chapter two.  In this chapter we meet some of the characters in the novel.  I hope you enjoy this addition to the Breakaway Cafe in the course.