Wonderful authors to show off the fruits of their labor. So were happy to have you and all of them participating today. Just a couple of housekeeping matters. Will everyone please take of their Electronic Devices and turn them also that our presentation is not interrupted . Thank you. For those of you have not had a chance yet to see the new permanent exhibit that opened here last year this time of year, please come and find one of the Library Staff and we would give you one of these initial buttons we will get you into our exhibit galleries for free. Thank you to our colleagues. There are great supporters of our programs. Happy to have them back. Let me tell you a little bit about how the program will go this afternoon. Our speaker will speak for 35 minutes or so, and then we want the opportunity for a few minutes of questions paid after words are always galway to the store where he will be happy to sign the books you want to buy. So david kaiser taught history from 96 until 2013 at c
The 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. For those of you who have not been in this room before, let me go over a few rules. The first is would everyone please take out their Electronic Devices and turn them off so that our presentation isnt interrupted today. The next is if you havent had a chance to see our new permanent exhibits that opened just last year, come and find one of the Library Staff members, and well be amendment happy to give you a button before the end of the day. The exhibits close at 6 00, so you have plenty of time to see them after the last presentation. And finally, our friends from cspan are here filming as they often do, and we appreciate them being here and showing support for our program. Because cspan is filming this session, at the question and answer period at the end of the session we would that you, please, come to the microphone and ask your question from the mic so they can be sure ask and capture the sound. So let me kind of go over the order of the
Manifest Destiny, a phrase coined in 1845, expressed the philosophy that drove 19th-century U.S. territorial expansion. It contended that the United States was destined by God to expand its dominion and spread democracy and capitalism across the entire North American continent.