Offer Virtual Events at this time and to hear about the king of confidence a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an american monarch if it wasnt for you showing up, so thank you for doing that. We do ask you keep your video feed disabled. If you do enable it, if you enable the second time we appreciate your cooperation. I want to go over our format. We will have a reading by miles harvey to start us confidence a tale of utopian dreamers, frontier schemers, true believers, false prophets, and the murder of an american monarch which was published last tuesday and donovan hahn reads from another book published in june we will hear an extended conversation from 30 to 35 minutes and have a few here and there with supplemental images and once we are done with that we will wrap things up with audience q and a, feel free to send them my way. I will be fielding and screening those. I will read some bios and get the reading underway. Mil
So today well talk about the Electoral College, what it is, how it works and why most scholars kind of hate the Electoral College and its among the Political Science set which homely youve had so far and you get a fullthroated argument against the Electoral College and it is a useful, instructive book because lays out all of the common arguments for it, as well which is helpful for allowing each person to sort of make up their mind about what they think about this institution generally speaking. So this is really i do a whole week on this one because its how we like the president and few americans fully understand the process. At the very least if you take a course in the american presidency you should walk away understanding how this process we use to select our chief executive officer work, but also because it is really important in how it structures how elections turn out. Just how we started our discussion by president ial nominations by discussing the history of the nominations pr
A professor of law and taxation. Test test p. The book manuscript, the applicants of national the United States and the 20th century. An Important Mission of the center is promoting the senate and the house of representatives and advancing the history of congress. This Research Series helps us engage fully that the mission is being done. For those that have written significant books ons history of congress. Today we hear about a very significant book on the history of congress. Charles stewart gave a marvelous talk. Electing the senate and direct democracy before the 18th amendment. And the battle over who would succeed the speaker of was finally dieing down and charles graciously agreed to return to discussion the history of the speaker of the house. He has given todays talk, the enticing title speaker battles, then and now. It was coauthored with jeffrey jenkins. Bidding for the senate and the rise of government. Charles along time friend of the center is the distinguish ed professor
Taxation will speak about his research and that committees records and the history of the joint committee and on may 26, we host a professor of Political Science of wind Gate University who will discuss her research for her book about the politics of National Identification documents in the United States in the 20th century. An Important Mission of the center is promoting Scholars Research in the records of the senate and the house of representatives and advancing the study of the history of congress. This researcher series helps us understand how fully that mission is being met and we do so by regularly hosting scholars who have conducted research in house and Senate Records or who have written significant books on the history of congress. In todays much anticipated talk, we hear about one of those very significant books on the history of congress, our guest, charles stewart, gave a marvelous Research Talk last november on a book he wrote. At that time the battle over who would succee
Good evening everyone and thank you so much for joining us. My name is bennett and im a bookseller and Events Coordinator and im going to be your host tonight for literati featuring myles harvey. Lets get underway and i want to extend a thank you for your support of ourVirtual Events programming. We feel lucky that were able to continue to offer Virtual Events and we wouldnt be able to do that and hear about the king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up so thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our policy for tonights event. We ask you keep your a video feed disabled throughout the duration of the that event and if you dont we will disable it for you and if you enable it a second time we will have toreview you from the event we appreciate your cooperation. I just wanted to briefly go over our plan for tonight, a reading by both miles and after myles reads from the king of confidence which was published this last tuesday and donovan reads from his book publishe