Election and his defeat in 1980 by mr. Reagan. Mr. Balmer spoke at the Jimmy Carter Museum in atlanta back in 2014. Welcome. Its a pleasure for me tonight to introduce randall balmer, professor of arts and sciences at dartmouth college. I have followed his career for a long time. His under graduate work was done at a school where my father was a dean and my brother joe attended that school at the same time. And randy has turned into one of our great, modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great is he really minds the resources of president ial libraries. He really mines the resources of president ial libraries. He has come to the carter library, gone through and found very interesting documents that other people had not seen before. And he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that, he has also mined the resources of the archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. And on top of his research skills, h
Joining us now hillsdale professor of history, portrayal of american conservatism. Professor hart, whats the definition of an evangelical . Thats a hard question but the simple one that i heard used is anybody who like billy graham. Our viewers may not know who billy graham. It means someone who has had a personal relationship with jesus, kind of bornagain experience. Theres a longer history and a longer answer when you get in that history. Host can you lump evangelicals in one position or another . Guest you can in some way if you look ethically of people of british decent or englishspeaking background. Those protestants were important of formation in 20th century and also important constituency of regan and bush coalitions. Theres affinity between that english background or scottish background protestants and with the Republican Party and people of dutch or german decent may have been at wasnt point in the Democratic Party because the democrats were a coalition of ethnic groups and s
Fuel. After the island of devastated by Hurricane Maria more than a week ago. Trumps response has been criticized as slow, inadequate and insensitive. On friday the Washington Post reported on how trumps time at his golf course last weekend contributed to the delays. This morning the White House Press secretary called that story false. The mayor of san juan added this on friday. If anybody out there is listening to us, we are dying. And you are killing us with the inefficiency. And the bureaucracy. So, mr. Trump, i beg you to take charge and save lives. If not the world will see how we are treated not as second class citizens, but as animals that can be disposed of. After that desperate plea for help donald trump responded early this morning by attacking her on twitter. The mayor of san juan, Carmen Yulin Cruz joins me now. Mayor, before we get to donald trump. First tell me about the state of san juan and how things are going, your plea yesterday to the world moved so many people and
All familiar with the president s routine lies about things large and small, everything from Paul Manaforts role in his campaign, more on that later, to the crowd size at his inauguration. But this particular lie that the democrats are responsible for a policy put in place by his own department of justice and announced by his attorney general is different. Because its an attempt to deflect blame for an urgent moral crisis happening at this very moment in our country. Crisis of this president s own making, that donald trump has admitted he intends to use as leverage to further reduce immigration to the United States and to finally get his wall, which mexico is not going to pay for, but that he would like you to pay for. With these kids as hostages to make Congress Give him the money. So here is what we know. Thanks in large part to the Trump Administrations policy of tearing undocumented children away from their parents, the number of Migrant Children living in government shelters now s
The article in the June 28, 1945 edition of the Morning Herald announcing the upcoming arrival of the Clyde Beatty Circus wasn’t unusual. Gloversville was a frequent stop on the carnival circuit in the early 20th century, when the circus traveled mostly by train. The Fonda, Johnstown, and Gloversvil