In the near future on booktv on cspan2. Welcome to you all, im scott stevenson, im the president ceo of the museum of the American Revolution. Its wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience and im pleased were live stream the program this evening and we will be on booktv so we will live on forever and ever as 3 00 a. M. When you cant sleep. I will get a text from my father the following morning that says youre on television again. Im curious a show of hands id like to ask how many of you are visiting the first time this evening to the museum. Welcome to all of you. You are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museum, members of our Revolution Society and this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. We are very pleased to partner with Haverford Trust you will see them up on the screen here. I know tim glaspie but all i can see is darkness out there, tim and joe mcglocklin. Lets thank them for making r
Its wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience and im pleased were live stream the program this evening and we will be on booktv so we will live on forever and ever as 3 00 a. M. When you cant sleep. I will get a text from my father the following morning that says youre on television again. Im curious a show of hands id like to ask how many of you are visiting the first time this evening to the museum. Welcome to all of you. You are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museum, members of our Revolution Society and this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. We are very pleased to partner with Haverford Trust you will see them up on the screen here. I know tim glaspie but all i can see is darkness out there, tim and joe mcglocklin. Lets thank them for making read the revolution possible. [applause] its a real pleasure to be welcoming doctor Vincent Brown this evening. As is sometimes the case but not
All right. We need to go ahead and get started with our first session today. And it is wonderful to see quite the turnout at 8 30 in the morning for a panel on James Buchanan, which is we all know that James Buchanan is often overlooked, but we are going to remedy that here in just a moment. I want to quickly introduce our two speakers. First is john quist. John is the tall one standing behind michael. He is a professor of history at shippensberg university. He teaches classes in 19th century u. S. As well as civil war era. He studied at the university of michigan under j. Mills thorton. Recall Michael Nieberg who you heard last night also a student of j. Mills thorton. John has published a very important book entitled the social roots of antebellum reform in alabama and michigan, and his cospeaker today is michael burkner, excuse me, professor of history at gettysburg college. Many of you might remember that michael was the interim director of the Civil War Institute. He played a pivo
All right. We need to go ahead and get started with our first session today. And it is wonderful to see quite the turnout at 8 30 in the morning for a panel on James Buchanan, which is we all know that James Buchanan is often overlooked, but we are going to remedy that here in just a moment. I want to quickly introduce our two speakers. First is john quist. John is the tall one standing behind michael. He is a professor of history at shippensberg university. He teaches classes in 19th century u. S. As well as civil war era. He studied at the university of michigan under j. Mills thorton. Recall Michael Nieberg who you heard last night also a student of j. Mills thorton. John has published a very important book entitled the social roots of antebellum reform in alabama and michigan, and his cospeaker today is michael burkner, excuse me, professor of history at gettysburg college. Many of you might remember that michael was the interim director of the Civil War Institute. He played a pivo
All right. We need to go ahead and get started with our first session today. And it is wonderful to see quite the turnout at 8 30 in the morning for a panel on James Buchanan, which is we all know that James Buchanan is often overlooked, but we are going to remedy that here in just a moment. I want to quickly introduce our two speakers. First is john quist. John is the tall one standing behind michael. He is a professor of history at shippensberg university. He teaches classes in 19th century u. S. As well as civil war era. He studied at the university of michigan under j. Mills thorton. Recall Michael Nieberg who you heard last night also a student of j. Mills thorton. John has published a very important book entitled the social roots of antebellum reform in alabama and michigan, and his cospeaker today is michael burkner, excuse me, professor of history at gettysburg college. Many of you might remember that michael was the interim director of the Civil War Institute. He played a pivo