Why did we choose this topic, i dont know. Did you . Fall, chris took my civil war class out to Little Round Top and did an incredible job, not just telling us about what happened at Little Round Top, but he also did a really insightful job of helping my students understand the construction of historical narratives and focusing on chamberlain. A different way for my students to understand. Before chris gets going, i want to do a quick plug. Chris is a Gettysburg College alum. 2006. Raduated in i while at gettysburg is when believe you began to do some volunteer work for the park. My first year at the college, i worked at the institute. Internship at an the park working with john and scott. It was my First National park experience and i fell in love with it. I have been fortunate enough to make a career out of it. It has been a wonderful journey. I wish i was a student now. The program does Amazing Things across parks. So many things. I wish i had at my disposal when i was a student. I
And answer portion, in the interest of video and audio reporting, if you could just come to our microphone by the white pillar so we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion, and lastly, once everything is done if you could please fold up your chairs and place them against something solid. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight im pleased to introduce jared cohen, to politics and prose the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet inc. As well as an adjuncrt senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. He is the New York Times best selling author with eric schmidt of the new digital age and has written the children of jihad. One of the great lessons of american politics that ive learned is the tale of two brothers. One went off to sea and one became Vice President. Neither was heard from ever again. However in rare cases, the Vice President is not relegated to obscurity. Namely when the president the previous president dies. And his newest, best New Y
My name is Katie Willard and im part of the event staff here at politics and prose. Before we begin, i would like to go over a few quick announcements. First, please silence your cellphones and other noise making devices. Not only is it courteous to the author, but we are also on cspan tonight. So you do not want to be the person whose phone goes off on cspan. Secondly, during our question and answer portion, in the interest of our video and audio recording, if you could come up to the microphone right here by the white pillar. That wave, we can hear your questions and engage in a nice discussion afterwards. And lastly, once everything is done, if you could please pull up your chairs and place them against something solid. Our staff, as in me, would greatly appreciate that. Tonight, i am pleased to introduce jared cohen to politics and prose. Cohen is the founder and ceo of jigsaw alphabet ink as well as an adjunct senior fellow at the council of foreign relations. He has written sever
A little bit of housekeeping before we start , please silence your cell phone we appreciate it. Please remember to step up to the microphone. Before asking your question so we can enjoy the conversation and ensure this will beon recorde recorded. To buy copies of the book at the Cash Register up front. We will be doing a signing so if youre like to have a signed lineup next to the podium and please keep your chairs where they are we will have another event after this one. The reason we are all here it pleased to introduce stephen to all ofl you. A historian biographer and writer appearing in many publications including the atlantic and New York Times and washington post. In 2011 he received a guggenheim fellowship also the author of 17 books including cold warriors the codebreakers this afternoon he will talk about his new book Oliver Wendell holmes. He tells the story of one of the mosthe influential and one of the Supreme Court justices is in history and a definitive biography from t
Blueprint, we navigated pretty well, it is a remarkable story. I can almost say that except when Abraham Lincoln died, we were supposed to get Abraham Lincolns vision of reconstruction but instead the bullet of john wilkes move gives us johnson was a man born racist, died a racist, the last president to own slaves, a man who didnt anticipate his own slaves until 7 months after the emancipation proclamation, a man who has president ended up resurrecting every moment of the confederacy paving way for the jim crow laws which gave us segregation. If i look at the story of civil rights and postcivil war america it can be described as a story of two president ial assassinations beginning with Abraham Lincoln and ending with james garfield. When i set out to write the chapter about Andrew Johnson you think what can i write that great scholars havent written about this sort of seminal moment in history and i decided to vindicate the one stanley cans record which is putting Andrew Johnson a hea