This 90minute event. Good evening, everyone. Welcome back to the hilltop. Welcome back to smu, to dallas hall. And also, a joint program tonight between our center for president ial history and our klemmant center for southwest studies. Always exciting when the two History Centers here can come together and its really wonderful for us, chronologically at least, the younger partner, you will, the klemmant center, has been the leading center for southwest studies for at least a generation, so we are still in our toddler phase, look up to them, and they also baby sit us, so it works out really quite nicely. Im really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series looking at history and president ial history, especially since this one in particular, our talk tonight, has of course such a dallas flare to it. One might even say its fundamentally a dallas story. Of course, we all know, especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963, how mu
Is a joint program tonight between our center for president ial history and our Clement Center for southwest studies. Always exciting when the two History Centers here at smu can come together and its wonderful for us, the younger partner, the Clement Center has been the leading center for southwest studies at least a generation. So we as still in our toddler phase, look up to them and they also babysit us. It works out really quite nicely. Im really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series looking at history and president ial history especially since this one in particular our talk tonight has of course a dallas flair to it, its fundamentally a dallas story and we all know especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963 how much dallas is continuing to wrestle with what happened here, how much dallas is coming to terms with it and i want to take a moment and point out one of our good friends who is from the sixth floor museum
Welcome back to the hilltop, welcome back to smu to dallas hall and also a fun program that is a joint program tonight between our center for president ial history and our Clement Center for southwest studies. Always exciting when the two History Centers here at smu can come together and its wonderful for us, the younger partner, the Clement Center has been the leading center for southwest studies at least a generation. So we as still in our toddler phase, look up to them and they also babysit us. It works out really quite nicely. Im really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series looking at history and president ial history especially since this one in particular our talk tonight has of course a dallas flair to it, its fundamentally a dallas story and we all know especially having gone through the last 50th anniversary of the fateful day in 1963 how much dallas is continuing to wrestle with what happened here, how much dallas is coming to terms with it and i wan
Have made their way here to escape the violence at home. Also this hour, tributes to a giant of british theatre. Sir peter hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare company,has died at the age of 86. Give me actors, and a text, and i instinctively know what to do. And a stones throw away; a plan to ease Traffic Congestion around stonehenge is given the go ahead. For the first time in seven years, the government is partially lifting its pay crap. Prison officers in england and wales will receive a pay rise of 1. 7 this year, above the 1 freeze which has been in place for yea rs. Freeze which has been in place for years. Police will receive a 1 pay rise plus a 1 bonus for the years. But unions are demanding far more for all public second for workers given current levels of inpolice station which today hit 2. 9 . Well ta ke station which today hit 2. 9 . Well take about inflation later this hour but first this report from ian watson at the tuc conference in brighton. Police and prison office
University, a course called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early feminism feminism. The civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement and now were sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things, but today, our subject is the or the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. On our reading list, the chapter by michael kaizen gives a good quick summary on the various kinds of socialism at the time. From 1860 onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in the United States but largely confined to immigrants from europe, particularly germans, english. The em