In her current book, to make men free a history of the Republican Party which was , published late last year, this was her second book to be named as an editors choice selection of the New York Times book review. Professor richardson writes widely for popular publication. She is committed to presenting historical scholarship or four audiences on the economys wall. She is now the editor of and founder of a new web magazine called we are history. She is at work on an intellectual history of american politics and aggressive treatment of the reconstruction era. Heather richardson. Prof. Richardson thank you very much. It is a real pleasure to be here. And not just because i am coming from boston. [laughter] can everybody hear me in the back . Are we ok . Terrific. What i want to talk about today is not just the Republican Party but why we might care about the Republican Party even if we are not into politics. We turn it on . Prof. Richardson that is why asked you if you could hear back the
Examines the origins of the party and the slaveholding south, arguing it was founded to advocate for the middle class against elite plantation owners. She also looks at the republican figures who defined the party like resident Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. The National History center of the American Historical Association at the Wilson Center cohosted this event. It is about an hour and a half. Host it is my real pleasure to introduce Heather Cox Richardson today, someone whose work i have been reading and admiring for some time now. She is a professor of history at boston college. And every time i think i have caught up with what she has written, she produces yet another book. So i have to keep reading but i do so with great pleasure. She has written five books on various aspects of American History. She is a 1992 graduate of Harvard Universitys program in the history of American Civilization and her first four books explored civil war the gilded age, and the
That. Please stand adjourned to. [applause] we now have secular norman said of theological board that governs our acceptance or rejection the way our god can speak to people and what impact. We have the Davidians David Koresh says he has special insight to the bible a and this helps other members of the community understand the bible better and allows them to understand they live in the times. That by itself does got saved to be a problem but when it is indeed to other elements, if that trigger of the Law Enforcement concern and the popular press then the idea somebody listening to god is dangerous from the norms and that needs to be policed a and controlled. Stanley weintraub an Award Winning author ruth more than 50 highly acclaimed books including pearl harbor christmas 11 days in december and final victory and i actually remember when i was young undergraduate student reading a young folks on Queen Victoria so a man of many talents. The National Book Award Finalist and a guggenheim
Hello, im Julie Mcdonald with all the latest news from europe, including the real locker by bombers, a new evidence that commissio commissioned palestinian groups to bring down an u. S. Plane. And ukraine president vows hes still in charge despite being out of the country. Well, we begin the news hour with the story that libyas Prime Minister has been booted out. He has lost the vote of confidence in parliament on the face of it over the escape of a north korean tanker loaded with libyan oil from a rebelheld port. Its also about a fight between Islamist Groups in parliament and supporters of the wester westernbacked former Prime Minister. Lining up behind him rivals, and its all about who controls the countrys oil well. Defying the Libyan Government and docked on saturday. A rebelheld port to take on oil from a rebelheld field. Its reported to a have loaded 234,000 barrels of crude before sailing off into open seas. Its escape flies in the face of assurances by the Prime Minister who o
The reason why the imagery we are going to see tonight of joe biden, and Amy Klobuchar, and Pete Buttigieg, a show of force will be an extremely big moment for joe biden and for Party Leaders who have been desperate for this moment to happen, the sort of coalescing of these candidates that represent what a lot of people in the party want that dont want Bernie Sanders, but dont forget, Bernie Sanders despite this is still a very big force and will be almost surely tomorrow night on super tuesday. I am curious, abby, back over to you, and picking up on the point for folks in the party that wish or hope that this nominee is joe biden and not Bernie Sanders, and there are fears as we saw them manifest in some of the senators on the stage at the last debate, so what is the feeling within the party of coalescing around more of a moderate candidate . What kind of pressure might be on other candidates to bow out now . We should not the underestimate the power of the sanders wing of the party.