To whom maybe an important qualifier for this panel. What does it mean to be a bad president . What counts as bad and how do we define a bad president . Specifically, who might have been the worst president ever . Our panelists are david greenberg, are you full position now . Oh, associate professor. Just a little bit inside baseball, sorry guys. Associate professor of history and journalism and immediate study at news brunswick. Hes the author of books of nixon and most recently of a wonderful book of the public of spin. Again, a kind moment, good work, david. This is a history of the white house. David is a long time contributor and now writes a history column for political. To davids right, although not politically ynette gordon reid, professor at the ratliff institute. A renowned professor and scholar of American History, gordon reid has published six books. American family 2008 which won numerous awards for non fiction. A leading and field changing scholar of Thomas Jefferson and
History programming in primetime. W well take you live to conferences and historic site. Go behind the scenes with us to museums and archives and travel with us to the nations classrooms where you will hear some college and University Professors lecturing about history. As the 2016 campaign continues, watch past and president ial campaigns on the way to if white house. And reel america that showcased documentary and other films. Watch our airing of portions from the 1975 Church Committee hearing of the cia, fdi, irs and nsa. Look for all of you are programming every weekend on cspan 3. All this week while congress is in recess showing American History tv on primetime here on cspan 3. Beginning with american artifacts and looking at photographs. Followed by an event in honor of the centennial ce and armstrong cable in help in coordinating the visits. View the winning documentaries at student cam. Org. Next, a discussion about the worst president in u. S. History. Three historians first
Next, a discussion about the worst president in u. S. History. Three historians first looked at what makes a president the worst, followed by their nominees. The panel was port of the organization of american historians annual meeting held this year in providence, rhode island. It is an hour and a half. Welcome to the oah 2016 and welcome to the planary panel, worst president ever. Im claire potter, professor of history and director of the Digital Humanities Initiative at the new school. And i want to let those in the audience who are tweeting know that the tag for this session is oah underscore bad president and add the tag oah 2016. So the theme of the conference, as chosen by oah president john butler is on leadership. And as 2016 is a president ial election year, and boy, is it a president ial election year, the Program Committee assembled a round table of scholars willing to talk about president ial leadership. But about its failures rather than about its successes. This seems par
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