Did his gradual work at the university of pennsylvania where he focused on the history of religion. He holds a master of divinity. His roster of publications is so long that i am not going to try readthe salt to you all of it to you. You can get a full accounting on biography and his his doings. To mention five books that i think are especially pertinent to what we will be doing this afternoon. The first is called Abraham Lincoln, redeemer president. It was published in 1998. It is the first of his lincoln books. The emancipation proclamation the end of slavery and america published by simon and schuster. That brought him his second lincoln prize. Lincoln and douglas the debate that defined america. For some reason that did not win the lincoln prize. A new history of the civil war and reconstruction came out in 2012. Mentionh title i will is called gettysburg, the last which brought a third lincoln prize to alan. The only person who has won three. He is currently working on a biography
I am going to mention five books that i think are especially pertinent to what we will be doing this afternoon. The first is called Abraham Lincoln, redeemer president. It was published in 1998. It is the first of his lincoln books. The emancipation proclamation the end of slavery and america published by simon and schuster. That brought him his second lincoln prize. Lincoln and douglas the debate that defined america. For some reason that did not win the lincoln prize. A new history of the civil war and reconstruction came out in 2012. The fifth title i will mention is called gettysburg, the last invasion which brought a third lincoln prize to alan. The only person who has won three. He is currently working on a biography of robert e. Lee. That will be published and it will be one of the things we will get to today. We are going to talk about his work on the field of civil war era studies. I want to begin with a question relating to the opportunities for people in our field to try and
Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning . The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. And we deferred that to today. So thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and its headwaters. Great rivers main streams have head waters that flow into them and are at some point indistinguishable from one another and the river. These are the headwaters of the Missouri River, the gallitan, the madison, and the jefferson rivers, discovered by
Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning . The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. And we deferred that to today. So thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and its headwaters. Great rivers main streams have head waters that flow into them and are at some point indistinguishable from one another and the river. These are the headwaters of the Missouri River, the gallitan, the madison, and the jefferson rivers, discovered by
Im president and ceo of the labor history center. Welcome to tonight living stone lecture. Before we get started i want you may have noticed a few cameras in the room. Please turn off all of your devices and also, if youre to ask a question at question time, everyone has to come to the microphone or theyll cut the entire session. Please do that if youre interested in answering questions. Were very excited about tonight s program. Its a pleasure to welcome tonight featuring journalist frances fitzgerald. This was made possible by the limousine foundation. Born in new york city and graduating from Radcliffe College she came of age as a journalist in the vietnam war era. In 1972 he published fire in the lake, the vietnamese and americans in vietnam. A history of vietnam and the United States military involvement in the country. The book was awarded a Pulitzer Prize, bancroft prize and a National Book award. She has since offered numeral critical works on American History and have appeared