Life. For six years, we traveled to six cities and bringing the book cities. Watch more at cspan. Org cities tour. We are here in the sioux falls Downtown Public library. A few blocks from here on the north end of sioux falls, i am a my booknd my roast is about caesar and i. Julius caesar died in 44 bc. Most of the buildings around their argon and his clothes are gone, even the iron daggers that stabbed him have long ago rusted into dust. About the only thing we have left it of Julius Caesar is his breath, air that came out of his lungs and spread their way around the world. T is not just Julius Caesar you can connect him with anyone you are interested in in history. Relatives, people you like or dont like. Air is one of the very few things that connect all human beings throughout history. Even the people who we do not have anything remaining of their lives and know little about them. We do know that its of their of are still around bits their air are still around and we have that mate
We are pleased to have our own tim reeves here. He is our Deputy Director and our supervisory archivist. He is my go to guy on Administration Related questions. I rely on him greatly. But he is here to speak to you today and the western influences on our beloved president ike eisenhower. Tim came to the Eisenhower Library in 2008 from the National Archives in kansas city. Hes a graduate of Wichita State and impore area state and served in the Yunited States army for five years. Thank you for your service. Tim is the author of many articles on a variety of subjects. These include eisenhower, of course, d day, the presidency of grant, and prison baseball. Of course. So i hope that you enjoy our program today. Please welcome with me, tim reeves. [applause. Okay. Well, thanks, everybody. And great to see such a nice turnout during the middle of the week and really appreciate it again. We know that the food has a large part in the attraction of these events. Not just the wonderful speakers
Dakota for over 100 years to my new book from warm center to ragged and takes its title from mister got Scott Fitzgerald who is the author of probably most famously of the great gatsby and if you remember your gatsby from back in high school or college, you remember that nick karoly was from minnesota. Nick karoly went off to war, this would have been world war i and when he came back, he decided that he thought it would be sort of doll to move back to minnesota. Which he saw as the ragged edge of the universe. And he decided to move to new york and he got mixed up in the roaring 20s. On long island with gatsby and all that cast of characters from his book. But in the end, when he sees what happens to many of these characters, he begins to see the old midwest where he came from as the warm center of the world. So that contract is what i tried to draw in my new book, from warm center to ragged edge. In the decades after the civil war, the midwest was seen by many commentators as the pac
Stanford university libraries. As bruce was describing, the bill lane center is dedicated to advancing scholarship and Public Education on the past, present and future of Western North america. So this is a very appropriate program for them, and the Stanford University libraries offers access to a comprehensive range of Scholarly Resources both print and digital format in support of research and nstruction here at stanford. Today we inaugurate a new lane Center Initiative called arts west. It is designed to place a spotlight on the rich contributions of the arts and humilities in the american west. Arts west offers the Stanford Community innovative public programming, on the writers, artists and cultural leaders that make the west a Fertile Ground for global creativity and artistic vision. It offers two distinctive series , the great writers of the west focuses on our western literary heritage and the great artists of the west elevates the western visual arts. We begin today with the c
Thank you. Bruce. Hello my name is mark levine. Im an affiliated scholar. Program today is called jack london, apostle of the American West. And its being coupon sorried by Stanford University library ris. As bruce was describing, the center is dedicated to advancing scholarship and public presentation on the past, future of Western North america. This is very appropriate pan ford for them. And the University Library comprehensive range both digital formats in support of research and construction here at stanford. Today we ingnaw grate a new center. It is designed to place a spotlight on the humanities in the American West. Arts west offers the stanford community, innovative public programming on the writers artists and cultural leaders that make it further ground for artistic vision. It offers two distinctive series t great writers of the west focuses on western literary heritage and the great artist of the west elevates the western liberal arts. We begin today with jack london whose