Wisconsin Election Officials when he is not working or writing. 1721 tells the history of the worst smallpox epidemic to hit boston. It set the stage for scientific advancement including the controversial but effective smallpox inoculation. The pittsburgh gazette calls this book solidly told and the wall street journal called it a deeply researched account. Please join me in welcoming stephen coss. [applause] i am a wisconsin election official. I am not in wisconsin. They are having an election. I had to vote absentee. I would rather be here right now. The line of fire. Stephen exactly. That is a nonpartisan position. It is a fantasy a fancy phrase for poll worker. Register new voters. Firsttime voters, naturalized citizens. I like it a lot. Thank you very much for that introduction. Thanks to harvard bookstore. This is my first time here. But i have heard about this store. Everybody has. It smells like a bookstore should smell and looks like a bookstore should look. I am happy and pro
Hilary and for now i am pleased to introduce tonights author and his new book the fever of 1721. Stephen coss has a bachelors degree in journalism. He has worked as an Advertising Agency copywriter and served wisconsin Election Officials when he is not working or writing. The fever of 1721 tells the history of the worst smallpox epidemic to hit boston. It set the stage for scientific advancement including the controversial but effective smallpox inoculation. The pittsburgh gazette calls this book solidly told and the wall street journal called it a deeply researched account. Please join me in welcoming stephen coss. [applause] stephen i am a wisconsin election official. I am not in wisconsin. They are having an election. I had to vote absentee. I would rather be here right now. The line of fire. Stephen exactly. That is a nonpartisan position. It is a fancy phrase for poll worker. I get to register new voters. Firsttime voters, naturalized citizens. I like it a lot. Thank you very much
What a great turnout. A professor of history and the director of the institute on democracy. Thank you to cspan for being your. We are doing something a little differently because of cspan being your. For instance, im going to say a little bit more about what the institute is at the beginning for the tv audience. Founded in 2014, it is a joint project of the Political Science and history departments in cooperation with other scholarly groups on campus. Dedicated to research, teaching, and Community Engagement on american political thought and wide variety of perspectives. It is created from a generous der foundationkin and we are thankful that they made this one of their philanthropies among many others they could choose. And learns to teach about american constitutional democracy as the founders created it, but not just that. We want to understand the ideas that inspired the founders as well as those they disagreed with. We want to understand public shortcomings as well as accomplishm
Associate director of the institute on constitutional democracy. Thanks to cspan for being here. We are doing something a little differently because of cspan being here. For instance, im going to say a little bit more about what the institute is at the beginning for the tv audience. Founded in 2014, it is a joint project between the university of missouri Political Science and history departments in cooperation with other scholarly groups on campus. Dedicated to research, teaching, and Community Engagement on the subject of american political thought and history seen in broad context and from a wide variety of perspectives. It is created from a generous gift from the Kinder Foundation of houston, texas, and we are they made history and social sciences at the university of missouri as one of their philanthropies among many others they could choose. Our goal is to teach and learn about american constitutional democracy as the founders created it, but not just that. We want to understand