American progressionism and the coming of the new deal. He argues thattal al smith lost the 1928 election, his ideals and policies paved the way for president roosevelt. Good evening, everyone. Im really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome all of you here for our talk for this evening. Im evan dolley, and on blehalf of the program here, welcome to our history talk. At the outset for being able to hold this talk, thank you to the funding of the history fund which is supporting this event, and let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. So our speaker for this evening is dr. Robert childs. He is a graduate of tascun university. He began a phd in history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012, and the talk hes going to be giving this evening is the result of that phd dissertation, i do believe, yes. He has, during the course of this particular research, or the research for this project, he has received a couple prestigious
Author of the book the revolution of 28 al smith, american progressivism and the coming of the new deal. His Progressive Coalition paved the way for franklin roosevelt. Good evening, everyone. Im really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome you all here to our talk for this evening. On behalf of the History Department here, welcome, to our evenings talk. Were able to hold this talk thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. And let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. Our speaker for this evening is dr. Robert chiles. Hes a graduate of town send university where he studied music and found the true faith and began a ph. D. In history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012. And the talk that hes going to be giving this evening is the result of that ph. D. Dissertation, i do believe, yes. He has in the course of this particular research, the research for this project, hes received a
Give you a timeline as to what robert ely did in the postwar years, often the most overlooked portion of his life. The other main theme of this lecture i will try to get across i would amount of not say he did a lot of work but through his own personal example is probably the best way. Robert his own example, e lee tries to reconcile the nation. Havei think a lot of us forgotten is how far apart this country was in 1865. Is the view of a lot of people that lee surrendered at appomattox and then, bam, we will forget about it. We will just hold hands and reunite and continue down the path again. Decades,the country some would say a century, someone say not even yet, for the country to reunite. I would put the country seriously coming back together in the spanishamerican war when we all had a common enemy once again. That would be roughly 30 years after the end of the civil war. Robert e lee does not live that long. He is only going to live for five years. But you think about who symboliz
07 50 49 this is a test caption from the national captioning institute. 07 50 53 this is a test caption from the national captioning institute. He gets back and steps inside. Depending on who you read, whatever mary was trying to say here, it is hard to read mary at times. Whether she was hard or nice or whatever. Anyway, lee is always chastising his family, his girls, for being late for dinner. He is a punctual man. So when he comes in, miss mary says, why are you late . You have kept us waiting. The dutiful husband, lee pulls off his overcoat, hangs it on the rack, steps to the table. He starts to say grace. And nothing comes out of his mouth. He just freezes. I cannot describe it i did not see it. The onlookers say that that pale came over him at that moment. Right there. Misses lee got up and walked over to him and patted him on the hand and says, oh dear, you look tired, let me get you a cup of tea. Lee sunk back into the chair. He had already been seeing doctors but they cannot d
American history offer. His word john adams, john republicanism an obstacle to stand before us was published by a Massachusetts Historical Society in 2014. His his book length study on the general james long straight performances battle of gettysburg was public this year but Macfarlane Press currently he lives in marilyn with his wife and children without any further introduction, i would like you to present you to mr. Cory pfarr thank you very much. Thanks to the Gettysburg Heritage Center for having me here. We will get right into it just after janes longstreet nine new york we will begin regarded by future generations it asserted quote that we dont think that history will sustain conventions of mr. Janes longstreet critics he will be seen as an ablest who fought on the the reason we can look back today the reason this bolton is because it was written after a group of ex confederate officers, including John B Gordon and others had wade had seen fit waging a post war camping of allega