Microphone located on the side of the room. Now it is my pleasure to introduce the authors for this session, Shelia Collins and Trudy Schaffner Goldberg. The book when government helped learning from the successes and failures of the new deal provides a rich portrait of policies and programs with a new deal with special attention directed to the impact of the powerful social movements on social reform. And Trudy Schaffner Goldberg is professor america of social polity and a Delphi University where she directed the phd program. She is cochair of the columbia seminar on full employment and social welfare and cofounder and chair of the National Jobs for all coalitions which advocate the 21st century vision of the innovative Jobs Creation programs of the new deal. Sheila collins is professor of Political Science and former director of the graduate program in Public Policy and International Affairs at Williams Paterson university. The coauthor of six books and numerous book chapters and an
Provides rich portrait of policies with new deal with special attention directed to relevance, impact on social movement and president roosevelt position. The author or editor of seven books. She is professor where she directed ph. D program in social work. Shes cochair and cofounder in the National Jobs coalition. Sheila colins is professor of Political Science and director of Public Policy in international affairs. Shes the author or coauthor of six books. She cochairs the colombian seminar and the seminar on globalization, labor and popular struggles. Please join me in welcoming to the Roosevelt Community festival. Thank you very much. Im going ton begin from quoting from roosevelt, unfortunately a catastrophe seems to be necessary in ideals and government and proper relationship to its citizens. Of course, its more unfortunate that it doesnt happen. The crisis of 2008 seemed to us similar kind of opportunity and sheila and i hoped that perhaps we would be able to take stock and to
Member of the Roosevelt Library and become a member of the information table just outside the door. At this time i would like to ask you to turn off your cell phones and thank cspan for covering this today and quickly go over the format for this session. We will start with our speaker in just a moment. Then i will follow that up if you have questions make your way over to the microphone so we are able to pick up the question in the author will move down the hall to the table outside of our new deals bookstore where you can purchase the book and have the author signed them. 2012 is an adjunct member of the Arizona State university and his fields of study include Public Policy, political history, latin america, u. S. mexico border land and sanford, arizona, i want to introduce patrick lukens. [applause] thank you. I want to thank bob clark and the rest of the staff and the president ial library to be one of todays presenters. And preparing this presentation and Headline News over the pas
Path. This is an hour and 45 minutes. Eric foner i am eric foner from the columbia university, moderating this second session on slavery and freedom. I want to begin by thanking the organizers of this excellent conference. We all know how much work went into, you know, putting this whole thing together. Thanks to those at the museum and the American Historical Association that have been so active in getting this conference organized. , i gave my last class at columbia university. I am now writing off riding off into the sunset. [applause] retirement. Of and so i ask if you will indulge me for just a minute as i reflect briefly on my own experience in relation to this field of African American history. Which is a little, it is sort of emblematic of the many things that have happened the last couple of generations. I grew up in a family in which africanAmerican History, although utterly ignored in the School Education that i got in grade school and high school, nonetheless, the black exp
This is an hour and 45 minutes. Eric foner i am eric foner from the columbia university, moderating this second session on slavery and freedom. I want to begin by thanking the organizers of this excellent conference. We all know how much work went into, you know, putting this whole thing together. So thanks to those at the museum , and the American Historical Association that have been so active in getting this conference organized. Two weeks ago, i gave my last class at columbia university. I am now riding off into the sunset [applause] eric foner of retirement. And so i ask if you will indulge me for just a minute as i reflect briefly on my own experience in relation to this field of African American history. Which is a little, it is sort of emblematic of the many things that have happened the last couple of generations. I grew up in a family in which africanAmerican History, although utterly ignored in the School Education that i got in grade school and high school, nonetheless, the