[applause] [inaudible] [inaudible] [applause] thank you everybody i just want to tell you what happened to me and how i broke my leg. So i was sideswiped im very lucky to be here at all. So now i will tell you a story about the civil war so im speaking about it but to have the least impact. I just want to tell you a little bit before i get to the georgia part of the story. The people believe that cancer should be a free state and theyre willing to organize themselves and take up arms and then with those operations in the north and in the west to be a radical meant in the 18 fifties. They were coming to a number of people in radical fashion as conspirators not only those that became famous to have the other side and Harpers Ferry and to be a radical meant to lean into that idea and to be in favor of a hard war but would demand so much of the nation. And so for the radical republicans the good doctor sometimes it is better but the only way as we would address these fundamental issues. To
Emerged the blueprint for the conflict in the philippines. Fdr began his fourth term in office firm in his belief that men are capable of their own government. No king, no tyrant, no dictator can govern as wisely as they can govern themselves. Upon that note, he faced the worlds future on the conference table at the altar, made plans to bring together the people of the world in a just and lasting peace will stop history has recorded that first step as the San Francisco conference. In this, his last report to congress and the American People is to be found the text of his life will stop in the last word of a man grown tired in Public Service is a heritage for all men everywhere. President roosevelt i am confident in congress and the American People will set the results of this conference as the beginning of our permanent structure of peace. Upon which we can begin to build, under god, that better world in which our children and grandchildren, yours and mine, children and grandchildren o
Symposium held at the library of virginia in richmond. Our next speaker is john white. John white is an associate professor of american studies at Christopher New Port University in new port news. When i look at johns vida, his academic resume i think of an old graduate School Adviser and im talking about you, jim wittenberg, would say to us when he would come to our offices to find someone to volunteer for a project. Busy people get things done, and we knew we were in for it when dr. Wittenberg talked about that. Jonathan white has to be the busiest young scholar in the field today. Hes not only a prolific hiftor yap, but more projects on more backburners than ive ever seen on the stove award. He won the outstanding faculty award for academic education. Hes a parent of young children, i dont know where john finds the time. Hes been very generous with what remaining time he has from all of that for this museum and our Education Programs for which were all very grateful. As you can see
applause welcome good evening. I am rob fisher, the director of st. Johns church. I am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit about the history of this very historic room that you are sitting in tonight and so i will share with you that this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henri literal. Not only did he design this church but he was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed in the war of 1812. In 1818 in 1818, he built what is now the home of the historical association. You see a similar entrance. It was built as a green cross and was an even four sides. In 1822, they expanded the Church Building to make room for more seating. We do not know who the architect was who did that expansion and built the bell power belltower. Tragically, he had already died at that time, in new orleans. There might be some historians in the
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