American history tv continues now with a look at the influence of religion on u. S. Politics and Foreign Policy in the 20th century. From purdue university, this is an hour and a half. Thank you all for coming. Im ronit stahl. Ill be chairing this roundtable today. Ill give a brief overview of how it came to be and what well talk about and quickly introduce our group. Then well get started. 15 years ago in is your mike on . There we go. Thank you. Theres a switch on the mikes. 15 years ago in a journal of American History article, john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted, religions continuing importance contains analysis. In political history religion has retained in butlers evocative term, a jack in the box view. Today our roundtable will address how religion matters in american political history and well do so in three ways. First ill each panelist to focus on a way in which religion matters. That is in their own resear
Political history where were all talking about history and how its going to be taught and talked about and consumed over the years. This krrchs is sponsored by the department of history here at Purdue University and is organized by one of our panelists, katie burnell. Thank you, katie, and nikki hemm hemmer. My name is connie doebele. 50,000 hours of american politica history in their classrooms and in their research. We do some other things, but thats what were concentrating on at this conference. I tweet at cjdoebele and the center tweets centerforcspan. We would be interested in following you as we reach out to specifically history professors throughout the country who are interested in using the cspan archives in their classroom and in their research. So we have three excellent panelist panelists that all have different areas of interest under this topic. Theyre going to speak for five to seven minutes and then take a lot of q a. Were going to start with Margaret Omeara. I hate to
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Off your cell phones or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. We are thrilled to tonight to welcome acclaimed historian mary beth norton, the author of five books and coeditor of several others inn her textbook people n the nation a survey of u. S. History has been published in ten additions and has sold mores than a 500,000 copies. Norton is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and 201 in the 2,018th president of the american historical association. She is the Professor Emeritus at cornell university. Her new book 1774 the long year of revolution is available for purchase following the program. So now please join me in welcoming mary beth norton. [applause] its really nice to be here. I want to make sure the clicker is on. It doesnt seem to be. There it is. Okay, great. I dont want to show that one quite yet. It is in the collections in the historical society, and it claims the label that is impossible to read unless so theres a quite wellknown object
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