Good morning. Thank you for getting up, everybody. And coming to hear me. I really appreciate it. Im just making sure my sounds good. Im here on a new book i wrote called Spring Revolution and the origins of that began really when i was a boy because mother and father were teachers and we had some one perk of being a teacher is gets some extra summer time and we used our extra time as a family. We went all over the United States visiting our National Parks and seashores. You know, i got to go to yellowstone and the olympics in the everglades. Wed have a pontiac and Station Wagon and a trail or i grew up in northwest ohio, the midwest, and we would then just go see the country and had asthma as a boy. And and it was horrible. And wherever went, i was so reinforced by picking up brochures like we used to do in those days and on it i would sit at the place would saved by Theodore Roosevelt who also had asthma as a boy and was would suffer mightily. So identified with tr and i realized tha
Government. Weekends on cspan two are an intellectual feast. Every saturday American History tv documents americas stories. And on sunday book tv brings you the last of Nonfiction Books and authors. Funding for cspan two comes from these Television Companies and more. Including comcast. You think this is just a Community Center . Or no, its my mother that. Comcast is partnering with 1000 Community Centers to create wifi enabled so students from low income families can get the tools they need to be readfor anything. Comcast along with these Television Companies support cspan two as a public service. Ning. Good. Morning thank you for getting up, everybody. Coming to her. Me really appreciate. It means making sure my mic sounds good. Im here in a look at what carl silence brings revolution. The origins of that book began really when i was a boy. Because my mother and father were teachers and we have some of the one perks of being a teacher is you get some extra summertime and use your ext
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to tonights great lives presentation. How the transcendentalists. First of thanks to sponsor of this program dovetail Cultural Resource group. Let me ask the groups representative here with us to please dad so we could express our appreciation to the support. I to this evening. Dr. Robert gross is professor Early American History emeritus, the university of connecticut. Prior to coming to the university, connecticut professor gross title and the college of william and mary and hes a visiting professorships at brandeis and Brown Universitys as a specialist in the social and cultural history of the United States from the revolution to the civil war. His work focuses primarily on the un. His first book the minutemen and their world received bancroft prize and history in 1977. His latest book, titled the transcendentalists and the world, was chosen by the wall street journal as one of the ten best books of 2021 and received a masters. This is thomas societie
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Good morning. Thank you for getting up, everybody. And coming to hear me. I really appreciate it. Im just making sure my sounds good. Im here on a new book i wrote called Spring Revolution and the origins of that began really when i was a boy because mother and father were teachers and we had some one perk of being a teacher is gets some extra summer time and we used our extra time as a family. We went all over the United States visiting our National Parks and seashores. You know, i got to go to yellowstone and the olympics in the everglades. Wed have a pontiac and Station Wagon and a trail or i grew up in northwest ohio, the midwest, and we would then just go see the country and had asthma as a boy. And and it was horrible. And wherever went, i was so reinforced by picking up brochures like we used to do in those days and on it i would sit at the place would saved by Theodore Roosevelt who also had asthma as a boy and was would suffer mightily. So identified with tr and i realized tha