about the 1960 presidential election. the effects of which continue to reverberate across today s political landscape we all think we know that that history is well written and well-spoken for but now irwin gelman has become america s contemporary leading authority on the 1960 election, and he s the first historian to truly use mounds of material from the archives to tell a more complete account of the 1960 election including unused sources. such as the fbi surveillance logs of then candidate john f kennedy and the papers of leon jaworski and henry cabot lodge, jr. gilman is a scholar of 20th century presidential history whose two prior books have documented the congressional and vice presidential periods of richard nixon s life. and his third entitled the campaign of the century kennedy nixon and the election of 1960 does not disappoint. gilman is joined in conversation this evening with another renowned 20th century presidential historian, dr. luke nichter who holds the jam
The city is home to fantastic caverns. Americas only drivethrough cave. Learn more about springfield all weekend here on American History tv. I begin researching the delaware townsite in 1998. One of the township records and some of the fieldnotes denoting the location of what became known as delaware town. Or delaware village. I believe it was 400 square miles in the southwest part of the state including springfield. And where delaware town was south of springfield just across the Greene County line. Over the course of five field seasons, we documented several delaware village site dating between 18221830. They probably were more europe and eyes to or americanized than most other groups because of the fact that they had been in contact with euroamericans very early. Where were they from . The delaware. Whatware valley became known as the delaware valley. And came in contact very early with english, dutch, french even peoples. And probably signed more treaties than any other group and
Nra nationalthe Sporting Museum at Bass Pro Shops in springfield, missouri. The largest firearms related venue in the country. There are about 1000 firearms on display here at the museum. Overall, the nra museums system has custody and takes care of almost 10,000 firearms. The theme of the museum is hunting, conservation and freedom. Visitors are going to see the evolution of firearms in terms of their use in hunting. They will also learn the story of conservation in america and for that aspect, we focus on our Theodore Roosevelt conservation gallery. Theodore roosevelt was considered the grandfather of the american conservation movement. A very active hunter and sportsmen but also a very vigorous conservationist, responsible for founding the National Park system. And one of the folks who began the concept of conservation of wildlife. A theme throughout the museum and the other nra museums is the role of firearms in American Life from the earliest days up through today. How they have b
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Grandfather. Host looking at all those childhood pictures. Adorable children that were all well behaved. Guest exactly. Host im most interested because you have managed to do in a readable length what many other authors have tried to fit into many many pages and im curious about your interest in eisenhower. How familiar were you with his record when you developed an interest in the subject . Guest i covered the pentagon for six years and had a healthy appreciation of general eisenhower, but i didnt really have an appreciation of the eisenhower presidency. I may college golfer, still golfer and i got the holy grail of golf invites down to Augustine National and i was on cloud nine and went down there and was driving down magnolia lane. Such a spectacular place and for golfers, as you know, its the place to be, so i went and and they told me you are staying in the eisenhower cabin and they couldnt believe it. I couldnt go to sleep and i poured myself a glass of wine and walked around the