He has three books to his credit including after gettysburg, lee retreats and another. He lives with his wife, chris. Thank you. [applause] my wife kris is here in the audience tonight. Welcome, everybody to the book talk about my latest book called after gettysburg. The great radio commentator always talked about the rest of the story, so this is kind of the rest of the story. A lot of people come here to learn about the threeday battle of gettysburg. We talked about that battle, but this book attempts to answer the question what happens after the three days are over . The story is pretty well known. The story after is not as wellknown. You might remember the battle was a threeday battle on july 1, 2, and 3 just outside this building. 160,000 soldiers for three hot days, then there would 151,000 or missing. Unded, it was a bloodbath. It was a turning point in the civil war, and this is where Ibrahim Lincoln gave the most important speech in his Abraham Lincoln gave the most important
Textbook. So, when i refers to schulman, that is what i am talking about her tonight we are using the 1973 film soylent green, starring Charlton Heston as a window into both the Science Fiction film genre and into some of the most difficult domestic 1970s, wherethe all of the president ial administrations but for president jimmy carter. So that is why we are using soylent green. A quick synopsis. This film is set in a dystopian future. It is not a utopian ideal. Where everything is terrible. And the big problem is overpopulation. Lyw york city is wild overcrowded with the population of of Million People. By way of contrast, the Current Population of new york city is 8 million, five times the normal population of new york city. Which is outrageous. The Soylent Corporation oversees the citys food supply. So that is where we get our title soylent green, the food supply mostly consists of variouswafers kinds, dried vegetables, dried protein and so forth. The newest food the corporation is
It exceeded our expectations certainly. So thank you to everyone for all the terrific presentations. Thanks very much. [applause] and this wont be the last you will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile an edit new volume in our women f. Cody series of the American West with the university of oklahoma press. All of the presenters are invited, as they know, to submit their work for consideration for this volume. Then all of the rest of you are invited to purchase and read that volume when it comes out. [laughter] stay tuned. Its a great pleasure to introduce tonights keynote speaker. Paul Andrew Hutton is an american historian. He is an awardswinning author, writer and television permanent. He serves as a distinguished professor of history at the university of new mexico. As we all know, he is published quite widely in both scholarly academic venues and popular magazines. He has reach add very large audience through that kind of work. His work has been recognize
And we use bruce schulmans book, the 70s as our main textbook. So, when i refer to schulman, that is what i am talking about. Tonight, we are using the 1973 film soylent green, starring Charlton Heston, as a window into both the Science Fiction film genre and into some of the most difficult domestic challenges of the 1970s, where all of the president ial administrations, but particularly for president jimmy carter. So that is why we are using soylent green. A quick synopsis. This film is set in a dystopian future. It is not a utopian ideal. It is dystopian. Where everything is terrible. And the big problem is overpopulation. New york city is wildly overcrowded with a population of 40 Million People. By way of contrast, the Current Population of new york city is 8 million. Were talking five times the normal population of new york city. Which is outrageous. The Soylent Corporation oversees the citys food supply. So that is where we get our title soylent green. The food supply mostly cons