Election and his defeat in 1980 by mr. Reagan. Mr. Balmer spoke at the Jimmy Carter Museum in atlanta back in 2014. Welcome. Its a pleasure for me tonight to introduce randall balmer, professor of arts and sciences at dartmouth college. I have followed his career for a long time. His under graduate work was done at a school where my father was a dean and my brother joe attended that school at the same time. And randy has turned into one of our great, modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great is he really minds the resources of president ial libraries. He really mines the resources of president ial libraries. He has come to the carter library, gone through and found very interesting documents that other people had not seen before. And he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that, he has also mined the resources of the archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. And on top of his research skills, h
Library and has gone through and found a very interesting documents that other people have not seen before and he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that, he has also mined the resources of the archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. And in addition to that, on top of his research skills, he is an excellent writer. Ive had the privilege of reading many of his books, including the one thats just come out. And i can tell you that as much as i followed the subjects and have done my own research there were many points i came across new information and said wow, that really explains whats going on. So if you want to understand the difference in the United States in the 1970s, and 1980s, and in case you have forgotten, there were significant differences. And you want to know about the sort of transition to the time when jimmy carter was president to the time when Ronald Reagan was president. If you want to understand the
His undergraduate work was done where my father and my brother attended that school at the same time, and randy has turned into one of our great modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great is that he minds the resources of the president ial libraries. He has come here to the Carter Library and has gone through and found a very interesting document that other people have not seen before and he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that he is also mind the resources of the archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. And in addition to that on top of his Research Skills come he , he is an excellent writer. Ive had the privilege of reading many of his books including the one thats just come out. And i can tell you that as much as i followed the subjects and have done my own research there were many points i came across new information and said wow , that really explains whats going on. So if you want to
Twoparty, can you draw any more parallels . It is just kind of foreshadowing another civil war . No, thankfully. But here is the thing. I was a history jackie and very active in politics forever up the opportunity to register myself. A great opporunity to write three books out. History will be worth it for me to read because it is a great story. Some of the most Amazing Stories ever. You would not believe it is somebody wrote in their novel. Too good to be real. That is not a good enough reason i write history because the messages from the past resonant with us today and are applicable we can learn from these things. We can remember a matter how divisive and combat of our politics, remember there was a point when our country went to war with each other and we lost 2 percent of population. Two out of every hundred americans, a war that destroyed broad sections of the country, 10,000. And so however bad we think it is, and i like watching tv and hearing, this is the most of my selection
Millard fillmore had his house vandalized because it did not display warning signs for the president. He felt terrible about the presence murder, but he was actually on vacation. Franklin pierce displayed no signs of morning, and he had an angry mob come to this house in trenton and purity comes out and gives a speech in talks about how lazar match theirs despite his political disagreement. You very much joined them in sympathizing with the murder of the president , just on the eve of his triumph in the civil war. Appeared poised to be able to reunite the country, to reconstruct the country, to bring it back together, many the only person who could have done separately taken away, very suddenly taken away, the first president ial assassination. Now i should probably stop for questions. Ten minutes of questions. Lets do it. Can you tell, looking at the modern trend of our former president s and how they conduct themselves and their research you have done, before presence during civil wa