Lessons reagan would have taught us today. This program took place in santa barbara, california. The good news is before we start talking, we have another one of those videos. This one is about the private sector and how reagan speech is still applicable today. You can share these videos on campus with your friends and put them on facebook. Roll it. If you have a business, you did not build that. You did not get there on your own. The full power of centralized government, this was the very thing the Founding Fathers thought to minimize. A government cannot control the economy without controlling people. They know when a government sets out to do that, it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose. Took this land by eminent domain. We will give you the price. But we will not make an offer. Tenures later, the land is a pile of rubble. It bears repeating, if you like your health care plan, you can keep it. Are we looking at the first billiondollar website in history . They also kn
Richardson. She chronicles the evolution of the party of lincoln and examines the origins of the party in the slaveholding south, arguing it was founded to advocate for the middle class against elite plantation owners. She also looks at the republican figures who defined the party like president Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt, and ronald , reagan. The National History center of the American Historical Association at the Wilson Center cohosted this event. It is about an hour and a half. Host it is my real pleasure to introduce Heather Cox Richardson today, someone whose work i have been reading and admiring for some time now. She is a professor of history at boston college. And every time i think i have caught up with what she has written, she produces yet another book. So i have to keep reading but i do so with great pleasure. She has written five books on various aspects of American History. She is a 1992 graduate of Harvard Universitys program in the history of American Civilizat
In her current book, to make men free a history of the Republican Party which was , published late last year, this was her second book to be named as an editors choice selection of the New York Times book review. Professor richardson writes widely for popular publication. She is committed to presenting historical scholarship or four audiences on the economys wall. She is now the editor of and founder of a new web magazine called we are history. She is at work on an intellectual history of american politics and aggressive treatment of the reconstruction era. Heather richardson. Prof. Richardson thank you very much. It is a real pleasure to be here. And not just because i am coming from boston. [laughter] can everybody hear me in the back . Are we ok . Terrific. What i want to talk about today is not just the Republican Party but why we might care about the Republican Party even if we are not into politics. We turn it on . Prof. Richardson that is why asked you if you could hear back the
Examines the origins of the party and the slaveholding south, arguing it was founded to advocate for the middle class against elite plantation owners. She also looks at the republican figures who defined the party like resident Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. The National History center of the American Historical Association at the Wilson Center cohosted this event. It is about an hour and a half. Host it is my real pleasure to introduce Heather Cox Richardson today, someone whose work i have been reading and admiring for some time now. She is a professor of history at boston college. And every time i think i have caught up with what she has written, she produces yet another book. So i have to keep reading but i do so with great pleasure. She has written five books on various aspects of American History. She is a 1992 graduate of Harvard Universitys program in the history of American Civilization and her first four books explored civil war the gilded age, and the
And be so kind to identify yourself to our guest speaker. I do see that you subscribe to the extent evans school. He always argued the 1964 california primary and the 76 North Carolina primaries were the two most important primaries. Absolutely, very much so. Gives me an opportunity to Say Something i dont often have the chance to say, and it is that we have some heroes in the conservative movement. We have the Barry Goldwaters, Ronald Reagans, jim demint and others. But we also Unsung Heroes. One of them, my friend morton blackwell, most americans have not heard of him but he is a person we all stand on the shoulders but we are deeply in his debt. On a short list beside beside mf Unsung Heroes is inane named tom ellis who was a. Of former senator jesse helms in North Carolina. In my opinion, ellis almost and randomly elected three of the best senators of the 20th century. Jesse helms first election 1972, john east in 1980 and faircloth. Tom is still active, a lawyer in North Carolina.