Hello. Everybody. Excuse me. Hello, everybody. I hope you enjoyed your lunch. Were going to start. Good afternoon and welcome. Im sarah snyder, the Program Director at the liam Simon Foundation and im absolutely delighted to introduce todays speaker kay hymowitz. Shortly i will sit in rapt attention along with all of you as she discusses her later book the new brooklyn, what it means to bring the
Hello. Everybody. Excuse me. Hello, everybody. I hope you enjoyed your lunch. Were going to start. Good afternoon and welcome. Im sarah snyder, the Program Director at the liam Simon Foundation and im absolutely delighted to introduce todays speaker kay hymowitz. Shortly i will sit in rapt attention along with all of you as she discusses her later book the new brooklyn, what it means to bring the city back but let me briefly tell you how ive come to know and admire kay. The william Simon Foundation started supporting k 13 years ago and i know that i speak on behalf of of the nations president kim pearson and my colleague man true doubt and all those who couldnt join us today in saying that putting k as the william t Simon Foundation fellow institute is one of the proudest successes that we make each year. A quick overview of kays prolific work. She writes extensively on childhood, family issues, poverty and cultural changes in america and has authored five very successful books. Shes w
Hello. Excuse me. Hello, everybody. I hope you enjoyed your lunch. We are going to start. Good afternoon and welcome. Im sarah snyder, the Program Director at the William Simon foundation, and im absolutely delighted to introduce todays speaker kay hymowitz. Shortly, i will sit along with all of you as she discusses her latest book, the new brooklyn what it takes to bring a city back. But let me briefly tell you ive come to know and admire kay. The William Simon foundation started supporting kay 13 years ago, and i know that i speak on behalf of the foundations president jim pearson, and my colleague janus, and all those who couldnt join us today in saying that supporting kay as the fellow at the Manhattan Institute continues to be one of the proudest investments that we make each year. A quick overview of her prolific work. She writes extensively on childhood, family issues, poverty and cultural changes in america and has authored by very successful books. She is written for the New Y
Other stops on our tour at www. Cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. Next come historians discuss u. S. Foreignpolicy on human rights during the latter half of the cold war. Chileters focus on iran, and cuba. They also examined the american stance on womens rights, torture and oppression in the developing world from the 1960s on. This session was hosted by the American Historical Association at their annual meeting. Its about an hour and a half. Thank you for coming to this session on human rights in the late cold war era. My name is amanda moniz. On the curator of philanthropy at the Smithsonian National museum of American History. Until recently, i was associate director of the National History center of the American Historical Association, which sponsored this afternoons panel. Amanda perry is the new assistant director. We are grateful to sarah snyder for organizing this panel. Panelistsroduce our all together and then we will hear their papers, wh
Maudlin. Really kind of depressing, right . Has the feeling of the war. Early on, there was people who are wanting to fight. Now people are sick of it. This has been building up over time. Charles ok. That is a good point. They have been fighting for over three years and it is wearing on people in there is cash people. There is some much death. So much loss and destruction and people are getting tired of it. And wariness is gaining momentum in the summer and fall of 1864. And we begin to see during the election year, the campaigning starts in the summer and we begin to see the democrats step up their attacks on the lincoln administration. We see them come back, and the other says, boldly returning from canada. What are they going to exploit . What are they going to focus on in the election . I think they are going to focus on sort of the emancipation aspect of it. They are trying to get the more conservative republicans on their side in terms of saying, hey, we do not want to this eman