Everything im going to say about the relief efforts are in the context of the battle over intervention and antiintervention. I dont think America First has received the attention it deserves. Justice don has done some good work on it. It is usually written off as right wing isolationist organization, but it is a key factor in the Antiwar Movement, along with hoover, who did not belong to America First committee, the quakers, the pacifists, people who were upset about world war i. It is truly the Antiwar Movement to 19. It deserves more attention. Arthur slashing said the battle over intervention was the greatest split in American History except the runup to the american civil war. He said it was greater than the split during the war in vietnam and the anticommunist crusade in the 1950s. I wonder what he might say about that now. Let me go back and show you one more. This is one of the very strong antiwar pieces published during this time. Within this contest, since hoover is an anti in
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Booktv. Org. Now we kick off the weekend with historian Leeanna Keith who looks at the origins of the Republican Party. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Cspan is here, so thats why our lights are super bright. Welcome, my name is kate whitman, and i am the Vice President of community engagement, and im delighted to have you all here. Tonights presentation is a livingston lecture made possible through generous funding of the livingston foundation. Please join me in thank them. [applause] and now to introduce our speaker for thissen evening who will tell you why she is sitting down like this. Leeanna keith teaches history at the Collegiate School for boys in new york city. Shes the author of the colfax massacre, untold story of black power. And most recently [inaudible] she joins us to discuss tonight. Kirkus review, which is an industry publication, a wellresearched, denselydetailed account [inaudible] planted the roots for the civil rights movement. And then [inaudible] Importan
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The plight of war victims, especially women and children. This is the title for my new book called the battle royale, hoover versus roosevelt. Im going to show you two images first. This is the first one from the America First committee, which alist, andntervention lis some would say isolationist. Here, we will take a look at these two and go back. These are from the committee to defend america and to aid the allies. Everything im going to say about the relief efforts are in the context of the battle over intervention and antiintervention. I dont think America First has received the attention it deserves. The justice has done some good work on it. It is usually written off as right wing isolationist organization, but it is a key factor in the antiwar movement, along with hoover, who did not belong to America First committee, the quakers, the pacifists, people who were upset about world war i. It truly is the antiwar movement. It deserves more attention. Arthur schlesinger said the batt