Away from antebellum history and became a contemporary historian. Because you cant compete with people like him. But eventually, i came back to antebellum history and slavery and since then, i have relied on many of erics more than 20 books. I would read you the list, but we do not have that much time. I do want to say, though, and this is always the fun of introducing a speaker, looking at his selected publications, i notice he has written a book called dance for the city 50 years of the new york city ballet, and i can think of no better preparation for giving a talk today, at this moment, on reconstruction and the radical republicans who helped reconstruct the nation than somebody who knows how to move quickly on his feet. [laughter] and with that, i would like to introduce my good friend, somebody who i admire enormously, the winner of the lincoln prize, the pulitzer prize, and i think every other prize that is available, eric foner. [applause] thank you, Paul Finkelman, for that. T
Good morning. I call this hearing to order. President trump has made improving our nations infrastructure a top priority. And this committee is continuing its effort to highlight our nations infrastructure needs. As i stated infrastructure is critical to our nations prosperity. In personal meetings i have met with members of this committee, both sides of the aisle, and i will tell you that infrastructure is always listed as a top priority. It is a priority because it is a driver of the nations economy and it impacts every community. This committee has a long history of working together in a bipartisan way on infrastructure issues. I want to continue that tradition. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has sweeping jurisdiction over our nations infrastructure. Our last hearing focused on highways and roads and the needs of rural water systems, all of which within this committees purview. Recent natural weather events in the last month in california and in other western stat
Want in both the president ial candidate and a president. The man who did get it, a man called Charles Evans hughes, governor of new york and a Supreme Court justice, all but won the election in 1916. In fact, when president Woodrow Wilson went to bed the night, Election Night, he thought he was beaten. If hed have been elected, how American History goes in several different directions, on suffrage for women, civil rights, what does he do on Foreign Policy, germany sort of baited us into war. Would hughes have avoided that. He is the one you could write novels about. He had Charles Evans hughes who was on the Supreme Court, and then left the Supreme Court when he ran for president and then went back on the Supreme Court. One of the finest minds on the court. A fellow justice called Charles Evans hughes the greatest in our great line of chief justices. Why hughes . Robert jackson provided part of the answer when he was attorney general. Jackson said that hughes looks like god and talks
Head start, all of which were probably among the leading agenda items of any democrat over the last 40 years. These are ideas that have the freshness of the hula hoop and wage and price controls. At the moment the political and ideological project of the left is to muster a coalition of the ascending on behalf of an agenda of exhaustion. In contrast on the right we see a time of genuine ferment. Near his death, bill buckley said that conservativism needed to be rebaptized. The tea party has been the concrete vehicle for that reaffirmation of the pillar of the conservative faith, and we have begun to see ago effort to fill in the details of those principles with concrete policy, whether its the entitlement reforms of paul ryan the tax plans of marco rubio or the health care promise of richard burr and orrin hatch. Much of his lies under the banner of socalled reform conservatism which should properly be understood i believe as either a misnomer or a redundancy. Because reform shouldnt b
I know you have a power point to get going, and you might answer this during that, but we are a group of history people here, and thank you for coming, and i am really excited to make insurance fun because i read your book and its really interesting. All right. We good to go . Yes. I am hannah farber, and this is my first book that just came out two or three weeks, i think. Before you all have a chance to back away, let me explain myself a little bit as i talk about insurance. This is my book. Theres a couple ways i would talk about what this book is really about. This is a book about finance in the age of the american founding, not just the American Revolution but the decades there after between the revolution and the war of 1812, especially, while the United States has declared its independence but were still figuring about what its about, and its about how money fits into that story. Right now, a piece of this most famous is money about Alexander Hamilton, and hamilton is involved i