Good morning and welcome to the center. I hope you liked our movie and hope you like this event, Chicago Council engage in retreat, american views on u. S. Foreign policy. I am jane harman president and ceo of the wilson center, member of congress and happy to be here at a place where we engage in bipartisan civil conversation, deep research into active thinking about the future of the worlworld into that spirit, lete introduce the fifth time that ivo dallder and the Chicago Council are here to release their survey of the American Public opinion. Its a Great Partnership that we have in the prior report and its an enduring alliance. Its also reassuring to me to learn the good news in this report that americans in huge bipartisan margins continue their support in an active u. S. Role in Foreign Policy and world affairs. Much of the vision for that role, to brag here, started with woodrow wilsobouguereau will ser 28th president for whom the sentrys name who served a century ago. Downstair
Foreign policy. I am jane harman president and ceo of the wilson center, member of congress and happy to be here at a place where we engage in bipartisan civil conversation, deep research into active thinking about the future of the worlworld into that spirit, lete introduce the fifth time that ivo dallder and the Chicago Council are here to release their survey of the American Public opinion. Its a Great Partnership that we have in the prior report and its an enduring alliance. Its also reassuring to me to learn the good news in this report that americans in huge bipartisan margins continue their support in an active u. S. Role in Foreign Policy and world affairs. Much of the vision for that role, to brag here, started with woodrow wilsobouguereau will ser 28th president for whom the sentrys name who served a century ago. Downstairs in memorial hall, wilsons word part of the quotes davis is a fearful thing to leave this great peaceful people into war, but the right is more precious th
This is a panel on the book civil war places. We have a couple copies up here that people will be thumbing through. And were going to have something very unusual for me, were going to have a screen behind us. He is smiling because i dont do anything this venturesome. To have actual images of when i give a talk. This is something of a departure for me. Heres how the structure is going to work. Im going give very brief introductions for the four people who are sitting here at the table with me and ill do all of them at once. And then im going to go in the order in which these images are going to appear and have each of our Panel Members talk about why they decided to be part of this project. And why they selected the image that they selected. Theyll talk for a little while about the image and then well see where the conversation goes after that. Youll be able to have questions. Let me introduce everybody up here. Ill start with carol riordan, the professor of American History at penn sta
To have actual images of when i give a talk. This is something of a departure for me. Heres how the structure is going to work. Im going to give very brief introductions for the four people who are sitting here at the table with me and ill do all of them at once. And then im going to go in the order in which these images are going to appear and have each of our Panel Members talk about why they decided to be part of this project. And why they selected the image that they selected. Theyll talk for a little while about the image and then well see where the conversation goes after that. Youll be able to have questions. Let me introduce everybody up here. Ill start with carol riordan, the professor of American History at penn state university. Carol and i taught together there for a long time. Shes the author of a very important book on civil war memory, the military side of it. With a sword in one hand, the problem of military thought in the civil war north. And shes a coauthor with tom v
And use actual images so this is something of a departure for me. Here is how the structure is gonna work, im gonna give very brief introductions for the people sitting here at the table with me and i do all of them at once i will have each panel member talk about why they decided to be part of the project and why they selected the image they selected and they will talk a little about the image. Then we will see where the conversation goes after that so very briefly, let me introduce everybody i will start with Carol Reardon who was the professor of American History at penn state university, one of the important books on the military side of history, with a sword in one hand and germany and the other the problem of military thought in the civil war north and to field guide books of the battle of gettysburg and antietam. Next on the line is edward ayres who is a professor of humanities and president of the university of richmond. The most recent publication is a thin line of freedom and