I am peter carmichael. I am a professor of history here. I am also the director of the Civil War Institute. Its my pleasure this evening to welcome harold holzer. He is the director of Hunter Colleges roosevelt house Public Policy institute. You dont have an acronym for that, do you . Before coming to the roosevelt house he previously served an Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. For the previous ten years he coedited or, excuse me, cochaired the u. S. Abraham lincoln bicentennial and appointed by president clinton and i should add president bush awarded harold the National Humanities medal in 2008. Harold has authored or coauthored or edited 52 books. Thats what youre up to now. I know you think ive read 52 books in my life. His latest major book is lincoln and the power of the press were the war for Public Opinion. It has won the lincoln prize as we know sponsored by Gettysburg College. Just this week i saw it was announced that harold has been
Was given at the dedication of a National Cemetery for soldiers killed during the civil war battle. This hourlong talk was part of a conference hosted by the Gettysburg College civil war institute. Our first speaker to kick off our conference is martin johnson. He is an associate professor of history at university of miami in ohio, where he teaches courses on Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, and modern europe. He earned his ph. D in 1993 from brown university. He has devoted much of his career to studying the 16th president of the united states. He is also the author of a number of books. In fact his first two books are on european history. One is on the paris commune. And the other is on the triefis affairs. Very diverse intellectual interest. Unlike most of us, can only right between 1861 and 1865. Martin certainly is able to go into other fields and to succeed in doing so. In 2014, martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize, lincoln prize as many of you know, is sponsored by Getty
His scholarship focuses on the american and french experiences in the two world wars, and seeks to make the history of warfare and International Relations relevant to policymakers and practitioners. He is the author of numerous scholarly monographs including dance of the furies, europe and the outbreak of world war i, a work named by the wall street journal as one of the top five best books ever written about world war i. Pretty impressive. His most recent work the path to war, how the First World War created modern america, was just published by Oxford University press in 2016. With a background in social history, military history, french history and American History, dr. Neiberg published widely on the theme of war, and, tonight, dr. Neiberg will be broadening our topics well beyond 1865, as he discusses toward the age of peoples war, the civil war, to world war i. Dr. Neiberg. [ applause ] well, thanks, pete, for that fantastic introduction. I want to thank pete for the invitation t
I am peter carmichael. I am a professor of history here. I am also the director of the Civil War Institute. Its my pleasure this evening to welcome harold holzer. He is the director of Hunter Colleges roosevelt house Public Policy institute. You dont have an acronym for that, do you . Before coming to the roosevelt house he previously served an Senior Vice President for Public Affairs at the metropolitan museum of art. For the previous ten years he coedited or, excuse me, cochaired the u. S. Abraham lincoln bicentennial and appointed by president clinton and i should add president bush awarded harold the National Humanities medal in 2008. Harold has authored or coauthored or edited 52 books. Thats what youre up to now. I know you think ive read 52 books in my life. His latest major book is lincoln and the power of the press were the war for Public Opinion. It has won the lincoln prize as we know sponsored by Gettysburg College. Just this week i saw it was announced that harold has been
Was given at the dedication of a National Cemetery for soldiers killed during the civil war battle. This hourlong talk was part of a conference hosted by the Gettysburg College civil war institute. Our first speaker to kick off our conference is martin johnson. He is an associate professor of history at university of miami in ohio, where he teaches courses on Abraham Lincoln, the civil war, and modern europe. He earned his ph. D in 1993 from brown university. He has devoted much of his career to studying the 16th president of the united states. He is also the author of a number of books. In fact his first two books are on european history. One is on the paris commune. And the other is on the triefis affairs. Very diverse intellectual interest. Unlike most of us, can only right between 1861 and 1865. Martin certainly is able to go into other fields and to succeed in doing so. In 2014, martin earned the distinguished lincoln prize, lincoln prize as many of you know, is sponsored by Getty