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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
We are thrilled to welcome a claim historian mary beth norton. She is the author of five books and coeditor of several others at her textbook of people and a nation a survey of u. S. History. Her new book 1774 the long year of revolution is available per purchase following the program. 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. I dont want to show that one quite yet. I want to show you the cover of the book briefly because the little bottle on it is famous if youre colonial historian. Its in the collections of the map of the society and it claims on the label on it which is impossible to read alas that is contains t picked up from Boston Harbor or the day after the tea party. Its a quite wellknown object in the colonial america. I wanted to start with this verse from a poem i discovered in the new york journal which is a newspaper that coordinated with the sons of liberty in new york
Is as to give a quick overview of my life, this will be about a few minutes of my political journey and also very briefly my thoughts of the Republican Party in the age of trump and would love to engage with you, all i was corrupt not eaten state and developed an interest in politics at a very early age. We had a cabin in the cascade mountains. It was on the east side of the state. I still remember as a kid driving with my parents to our cabin. We went every weekend. And we would talk about Public Policy. We always listened to the news at the top of the hour. And i was just a question asker. So i would ask my dad, why do the israelis and arab world not get along . And what about president nixon and Henry Kissinger and so those issues really fascinated me along with sports. And then when i got to high school, i was i got into debates with my social studies teachers. They were liberal, i was conservative. Not because i thought through political theory but mostly because my parents were c
Is as to give a quick overview of my life, this will be about a few minutes of my political journey and also very briefly my thoughts of the Republican Party in the age of trump and would love to engage with you, all i was corrupt not eaten state and developed an interest in politics at a very early age. We had a cabin in the cascade mountains. It was on the east side of the state. I still remember as a kid driving with my parents to our cabin. We went every weekend. And we would talk about Public Policy. We always listened to the news at the top of the hour. And i was just a question asker. So i would ask my dad, why do the israelis and arab world not get along . And what about president nixon and Henry Kissinger and so those issues really fascinated me along with sports. And then when i got to high school, i was i got into debates with my social studies teachers. They were liberal, i was conservative. Not because i thought through political theory but mostly because my parents were c