Have all of you here. I dont need to do much of an introduction because you know our friend alan but i will tell you a secret. He was going to name the book 50 shades of alan but decided against it. He thinks only he can tell jokes. I can tell a couple of jokes. We are happy to have alan here in jersey so lets give him a jersey welcome, thank you very much. I spent a lot of time growing up in jersey. My father had mens underwear and work clothes store on the Lower East Side and his customers were all in new jersey. I would come on springfield avenue and new york and patterson and passaic and after the Second World War the armynavy store so i got to know new jersey. My first wife was from bayonne, new jersey and her classmate in high school was barney frank who i got to meet, he was 16 years old and i knew he would be a politician. I am here to talk about something that happened to me that could happen to you and it could happen to your sons, your nephews, your husbands. I was on top of
Good evening. I am tony clark. I am really glad you are all here. I think this will be a fascinating evening because it kind ofpo tells why we are in politics the way we are right now. When i was growing up, folk music was a really big deal. There was a group called the chad mitchell trio that had a song called the dont John Birch Society with lyrics like if mommy is a connie, youve got to turn her in. Just really a funny, funny song. They would sing things Like Fighting for the right to fight the right fight for the right. Should google the trio and the John Birch Society. The billboards at the time along the highways would say things like Impeach Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren or get the u. S. Out of the un. They were very well known back in the 60s. By the end of the vietnam war you did not really hear much about them. Their influence carried much further. Their influence did not disappear. Fe a professor at the graduate school of political management at George Washington univers
Excited for our guests. Speaker tonight. Ned blackhawk is a leading scholar of American History. The howard hour lamar of history and american studies. Yale university. Dr. Black hawk is an enrolled member of the team at tribe of the western shoshone indians, nevada. Like me, he shares that background in in the us west with degrees from mcgill university, ucla and the university of washington. Dr. Blackhawk has published widely in field and won numerous accolades for his work. His first book, 26 violence over the land, indians and empire in the early american west, was, as it was study of the american great basin, and it received more than half a dozen professional awards, including the book of the decade from the native american and Indigenous Studies Association for. One of the most important ten most influential books in native american and indigenous studies in the first decade of the 21st century. Thats huge for a first book. Everybody wishes their dissertation turned into a book.
Thank you very much. I love the enthusiasm of the postal lunch crowd. Its very exciting. Well, i am and honored and humbled to be here. To have invited to been invited to speak amongst this really incredible assembly of speakers and all of you attending and to share some the history and highlights of the society of the cincinnati collections. I have to say that throughout the past two days, ive each night back to my hotel room and because in a conversation with someone or listening to someones presentation, someone said something very smart, very insightful. And i went back and thought, i need to sort of see this differently. Im thinking about this, about our collections differently and its relationship to these other topics. So you all been sort of inspiration already. So thank you for that. So society of cincinnatis collections documenting revolutionary war and its legacy are of the broad scope of my talk today. We did begin acquiring in 1783, which is the the society was founded. So
Speaker tonight. Ned blackhawk is a leading scholar of American History. The howard hour lamar of history and american studies. Yale university. Dr. Black hawk is an enrolled member of the team at tribe of the western shoshone indians, nevada. Like me, he shares that background in in the us west with degrees from mcgill university, ucla and the university of washington. Dr. Blackhawk has published widely in field and won numerous accolades for his work. His first book, 26 violence over the land, indians and empire in the early american west, was, as it was study of the american great basin, and it received more than half a dozen professional awards, including the book of the decade from the native american and Indigenous Studies Association for. One of the most important ten most influential books in native american and indigenous studies in the first decade of the 21st century. Thats huge for a first book. Everybody wishes their dissertation turned into a book. Can do that. He has coe