My grandmother had kept scrapbooks from every part of their life together. While at the george h. W. Bush library and museum, director warren finch showed us one of many scrapbooks containing mementos from their life together. We are here in the research room. We are going to take a look at 120 scrapbooks that misses bush mrs. Bush began keeping shortly after she and president bush became engaged. She was an avid scrapbook or and documented their entire history avid scrapbooker and documented their entire history and his political history and their lives together for their entire marriage. This one is from 1944 and 1945i believe. Misses bush his granddaughter mrs. Bush his granddaughter was doing a book on the president and misses bush. Half mrs. Bush. And she was using the scrapbooks as a resource for that book. One of the things she found because it was sitting inside this envelope was what we think is a scrapbook from their first thanksgiving. She has the guests that were there and
Good evening everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im yuval levin, director of constitutional studies at ai and it is my great pleasure to commute to a discussion of the land of hope, the new one volume history of our country by the Great American story and Wilfrid Mcclay area is a book that comes a time when questions of who we are as a people, whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in a way that neither some shorts our National Greatness north white washes our national sins, are really live questions in our politics and what may be on unusual way and this book is clearly intended to speak to just that moment though there could be a better time to hear from bill about his sense of howto approach these questions. Bill mcclay is a national treasure. Pure and simple. He is first and foremost a teacher. Behold the blankenship care and history of liberty at the history of oklahoma. He has admired and bowl o
Yale University History and studies professor Joanne Freeman , editor of the essential hamilton. Morning. Im a professor of history at the university of Central Florida and a proud member of the board of the National Council for History Education. I trust all of you are doing well and keeping safe. These are very strange times. Even for historians who have a longterm sense of history, thank you for joining us today. It is my pleasure to introduce speaker, historian Joanne Freeman. Dr. Freeman is a professor of history at yale university. She specializes in Early National american politics and culture. She is the author of several influential and awardwinning books and i will mention two of them. From 2001 andnor most recently, feel the blood congressional violence in which ium america, found particularly helpful for my own work. Ofseems like a reverse echo the current and contemporary political skeet clinical seen in the United States. I will leave it at that. Herfreeman is known for u
Have a unifying rather than a divisive story. Tell the story of our country and away that sell shorter National Greatness nor white watches are national since land of hope is the name of the book. Lots of questions or politics. It might be in an unusual way this book is clearly intended to speak to just a moment pretty slick could it be a better time to hear from him about how to approach these questions. He is first and foremost a teacher and he holds chair in the street of liberty at the university of oklahoma and is admired by scores of students past and present also one of the great writers of American History. His book the master himself, the master list rather than in the modern american was judged bush book for the organization of american historians the best. Among other wonderful books from American History are the students good view of u. S. History in fighting the human person in the market fast, and why place matters. Geography and civic life in modern american printed is a
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