The university of Mary Washington in fredericksburg, Virginia Held this illustrated talk as part of the crawly great lives lecture series. So thank you dr. Crawley for that too kind introduction. I am delighted to be back here. Was here ad when i year ago that i might not go home. I know when you do this kind of lecture, it is customary to warm the audience up with a few funny stories. If i had known 14 months ago i was coming back, i would not have told you all of my funny stories. [laughter] james haley it is probably best that we move forward with our talk about liliuokalani. I am anglo. Actually i am partly cherokee native, but i am in mainland writer, so the times i will have to speak in hawaiian, it is sick. We will talk about the hawaiian language. The first thing i need to do is make some disclaimer of utility, because captive paradise is intended to explain the essentials of how the United States, how we got our hands on the place. I have never gotten so reviews such memorable
Even with allid of the successes of his administration, historians have consistently rated him low out of i believe ideological bias. Act look at Ronald Reagans life after leaving the white house. I like to read about them because they grew up in the 80s. But i also write about the fact. Believe that any sort of candor and so that. I think that weve succeeded in reconditioning people thinking about Ronald Reagan that was a picture that emerges of a very serious deep thinking can interest duplicitous man. Tonight at a eastern on q a area all weekend we feature western massachusetts. 1848 is located about 40 miles west of boston. Recentlyty tour staff visited many locations. Learn more about this all weekend here in america. Most americans think the American Revolution started at lexington and concord in april. And most have a sense that paul revere rode to the countryside but in fact the countryside was wide awake. I think we get most of our history from home desktop by longfellow calle
American history tv. Of our Charter Communications partners, we will explore the history of this city of about 180,000 residents. Located in the central part of massachusetts, it grew into an Industrial Center with the creation of the Blackstone Canal in the early 19th century. Coming up, we will against at some of the citys early industrial contributions as we visit the historical museum. The story of worcester is a great economic engine in the early 19th and 20th century. Its the story of the Industrial Heritage that starts at the time of the Blackstone Canal. 1828, it opens and while there was a small industry in worcester before that, we focus on the beginnings and go to the 21st century. I explained her, we will hear about the history of Mechanics Hall, the cultural cornerstone of the city and today, and internationally regarded music meeting place. We begin the hour with the trip to the campus of Clark University and their special collection to learn about robert of the, the inve
Well, thank you very much indeed. Now, normally when i give a talk of any description, and ive given quite a number in the last week while ive been in america, i usually have a little repertory of anecdotes with which i commence, and i had one prepared this evening. But strangely enough, something happened to me on the way here which meant that i decided to scrap it and talk about Something Else entirely. I took the subway to congress circle, and i walked up Central Park West towards the historical society, and as i was walking up the street, out of the corner of my eye i saw a bronze plaque on the wall, on the wall of a rather august looking building. It wasnt the Second Church of christ scientists, its the spanishportuguese synagogue. And i read the plaque, and ive never seen that before. I normally try to keep my eyes open for historical things when im in new york, but i hadnt actually seen this. I was quite struck by this because, of course im quite familiar with the history of thi
What an interesting time to be giving a talk on infection and disease and epidemic right . With ebola in the news, we tend to forget in our modern health crazed society that early americans, the founders and ordinary people alike really understood Infectious Diseases in ways we dont. They knew the protocols. They knew how to respond to them. They knew what to do if there was infection in their homes. They knew the rules. I think that is something we are relearning so maybe we can shed some light there. I want you to imagine the emotions running through the mind of 19yearold Abigail Smith in the spring of 1764. She and her then fiance john had been betrothed for at least a year when john announced he intended to delay their proposed spring or Summer Wedding to the fall so he could have himself purposefully infected with smallpox the most dreaded disease of the age. When john left abigail on april 7, 1764, to begin the preparatory regimen for taking smallpox by an occupation, inoculation