Before the womens march last year that said this was the boldest most intersectional platform that is ever come out of any march historically, and that was one, the moment i was most proud. After words airs every saturday at 10 p. M. Eastern and sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern and pacific. Founded in 1747, its one of the oldest libraries in the country. This building is essentially the first purpose built Library Structure in america. We often talk about franklin and his Library Company of philadelphia where, we are a freestanding purpose built librarystructure so thats important. Unlike any of the others, we are still operating as a lending library. People have been coming for that building 270 years. I have said and ill say it here that besides a church, the library is the single oldest Cultural Institution that is unbroken to the colonial period so when you walk inthat door and you borrow book, youre doing it as theyve been doing it for nearly 3 centuries. Newport was of course one of the
Hes received numerous prestigious awards incluing the lincoln including the lincoln prize, the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book prize, and he authors regularly a number of articles that are published in leading newspapers; usa today, the wall street journal, washington post. And hes featured regularly on television and radio programs such as nprs weekend edition. He is the [inaudible] professor of civil war era at Gettysburg College where he serves as director of the civil war era studies program. However, he is on sabbatical from Gettysburg College this year, and he serves as the William Garwood visiting professor in the James Madison program of american ideals and institutions at Princeton University. You can learn more about allens work either by visiting his web site, allenguelzo. Com, but perhaps most importantly allen is a regular speaker at the union league of philadelphia and for the Abraham Lincoln foundation. He is also a member of the union league of philadelphia. So, please,
Shipping and handling. For the next hour, a book tv exclusive, our citys four views new poor, rhode island. We have traveled the u. S. Cities ringing the book seem to our viewers. You can watch more of our tours tiestour. Org ci we are here at the library in newport, rhode island. We have been here since 1747. We were founded and the library was built in 1750. We have a correction ranging from the earliest period up to donations from of rare books from the present about 16,000 volumes. My coworker and i have pulled up some of the treasures of the Redwood Library and aetheneum, from our oldest holdings into our original founding collection. Variousumenting at the foundation of the redwood abraham redwood, the founder, asked for books to be brought back from england that were useful in everyday life and would be useful to the members, in addition to adjust being intellectually stimulating. Sterling,at 500 pound the agents for the library were sent to london with a list of books that the
Introduce our speaker for this evening. Professor allen guelzo. Professor guelzo is a teacher, hes a professor, and he is one of the leading historians in a variety of disciplines, early american history, religion, and cultural history. But he is, perhaps, best known as one of the most prolific and important historians of the american civil war. And, of course, Abraham Lincoln. Hes received numerous prestigious awards including the lincoln prize, the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book prize, and he authors regularly a number of articles that are published in leading newspapers, usa today, the wall street journal, Washington Post and hes featured regularly on television and radio programs such as nprs weekend edition. He is the henry luse professor of civil war era at Gettysburg College where he serves as director of the civil war era studies program. However, he is on sabbatical from gettyburgs college this year and serves as the william g garwood visiting professor in the James Madison pr
Variety of Early American History religion and culture. But he is perhaps best known as one of the most prolific and important historians of the American Civil War and of course Abraham Lincoln. He has received numerous prestigious awards including the lincoln pride, the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book prize and the authors regularly a number of articles that are published in leading newspapers, usa today, the wall street journal, the Washington Post and hes featured regularly on television and radio programs such as nprs weekend edition. He is the henry luke professor of civil war era at Gettysburg College where he serves as director of the Civil War Era Studies Program however he is on sabbatical from Gettysburg College this year and he serves as William Garwood visiting professor in the James Madison program of american ideals and institutions at Princeton University. You can learn more about his work either by visiting his web site allen guelzo. Com but perhaps most importantly alle