very well, and it s also part of my area of research. so taylor is primarily teaching institution, but all of your faculty are doing research on their own is time permits. and for me, i ve finished writing a book last year on the religious life of theodore roosevelt. so this is a time for me to get to actually talk about some things. i ve done some specialized research on so that s just some of the backgrounds of what we re looking at here. again start with stop with questions along the way as appropriate. let me ask you one to start with which is simply i want to know any kind of background information you might know about theodore roosevelt. he s not, you know, rutherford b hayes that maybe never heard of before. i think you least have heard of theodore roosevelt. so one or two pieces of information that kind of get our minds going on that direction. yeah, delanie like the man the pants may eyeglasses. yes. they look weird to us. it wouldn t look weird to his friends. but y
everybody. good to see you. we ve been looking at aspects of gilded age and progressive era american life for the last couple weeks. we ve looked at the west we ve looked at the jim crow south. we ve looked at capital and labor and progressive reforms. today we re looking at how the life of one crucially important figure from this period helps the flesh out. and kind of concrete life some of those abstract ideas that we ve been looking at so today we re looking at the life and career theodore roosevelt. not the last time that we ll come back to him in this class. but today kind of just specifically geared toward him. his life does fit the themes of the gilded age progressive era very well, and it s also part of my area of research. so taylor is primarily teaching institution, but all of your faculty are doing research on their own is time permits. and for me, i ve finished writing a book last year on the religious life of theodore roosevelt. so this is a time for me to get to
Vice president of Public Programs at the new york public library. Its a privilege for the library to host tonights program celebrating Mike Wallaces new book, greater gotham. The longawaited sequel to his book gotham. Greater gotham picks up the story at the turn of the last century, a period when new york experienced unparalleled growth, expansion and consolidation when much of the infrastructure was developed and when many of our institutions were founded including this one at the new york public library. Incidentally the room in which we are seated was carved out of what was once the reservoir and there is a great illustration of that in the book. Its a special honor for us to host this program not only because of the importance of the book and its subject matter but also because mike wallace who is a fellow in the Coleman Center for scholars and writers and a resident in the allen room researched a good deal of the book right here in the librarys archives. The librarys holdings on
New york city housing courts, the bronx hall of justice, and a post office and samuel governorrers high school. They have been disinfected. The cause is one of the five original sites tested positive. They dont know if it was one or more of those. The office is trying to figure out why this occurred now. This is literally unchartered territory and its very important that we acknowledge that. We have never seen an outbreak of ledge theirs like this in the history of new york city. Reporter the outbreak deemed a wakeup call by new york city mayor bill de blasio with 108 cases, according to him. His office didnt know how many cooling towers are in the south bronx or where they are located until now. The towers are where the bacteria grows and can spread casing a type of ammonia. We have used aviation, a variety of methodologies to canvas a part of our city looking for something we havent had to look for before and then meted oddically going build i by building. Reporter tomorrow all build
Will be tested by the end of this weekend. A lot is still unknown, but the mayor did tell us this today. We believe as we have felt for i des now, that this outbreak occurred in one or more of the original five sites. Five new locations have been detected to have the bacteria, they include this Verizon Office Building at 11 06 avenue. The bronx hall of justice, a post office at 554 grand concourse that will soon be decommissioned. All activities at Samuel Gompers high school have been postponed. The mayor says its proof the outbreak is on the decline, and says there have been no new cases in four days. This graphic shows where legionnaires has been active. Where the cases can be found, the red triangle showing the locations testing positive for legionella bacteria. Wtodays meeting was to let the public take it cautious sigh of relief, Health Commissioner mary bassett ending with this. We are very optimistic about the waning of this outbreakp p. The mayor says there are 42 buildings lef