Books on the u. S. Economy. Find more information in your program guide. Student good evening. I am Lauren Rosenberg and i would like to welcome you to tonights program. To our members im so glad youreth here its your ongoing support that make events like this possible. Into that many of you joining us and equally warm welcome and an open invitation to view the wide range of programs we have at the smithsonian institute. Now is a perfect time to turn off yourself once or anything else that might make noise or in the program, thank you for doing that. Were thrilled tonight to welcome a claim historian mary beth norton. She is the author of five books and coeditor of five others in her textbook of u. S. History has been published in ten additions and has sold more than 5000 copies. Norton is a Pulitzer Prize winning finalist and was a 28 teen finalist. She is a effexor emerita of American History at cornell university. Her new book, 1774 the long year of revolution is available for purch
Unfiltered at cspan. Org coronavirus. Thank you for joining us this evening. Im gavin, the director of programs exhibitions and Community Partnerships for the massachusetts historical society. Tonight on the very eve of the 250th anniversary of the boston massacre we will hear from professor on her great new book, the boston massacre, Family History. As our regular guests know we very frequently pulled together a small exhibition from our collection that highlights some material that we have within our holdings. That helps with evening discussions. Today we have an entire exhibition. We did not need a small exhibition this time. Not only that but our exhibition actually features our speaker this evening. So if you didnt see it shes on a video monitor upstairs and was also very generous with her time helping us plan the exhibition and sitting for an interview. We certainly cannot have done our current exhibition without her help. We owe her a debt of gratitude. Is a professor of Early A
Usually london, in one case, from house but almost always london that conveys the colonists the things they heard about what was happening in england. The section is always called advices from because if any of you are familiar with colonial newspapers from across the heading the newspapers use when they were talking about material coming in from somewhere else. I introduced the material, the information about whats happening overseas to the colonists themselves as they would have learned, although other times they would have learned, at the time it was happening. Obviously in such a short time, this evening, i cannot discuss, but i can just summarize, you have a timeline in that handout, it helps reveal these developing visions and the increasing radicalism a populace. Only one of these is known to the public and that is the first one, the Boston Tea Party. Its not just about the Boston Tea Party, its about the incident of late 1770s. The story is of the tea in boston, it was referred
Today we have an entire explanation so we didnt need a small one this time. Not only do we have a whole exhibition that features the speakers this evening so if you didnt see shes on one of the video monitors upstairs and is also very generous with her ti time. We certainly couldnt have done the exhibition without her help so we owe her a bit of gratitude. Serena zabin professor of Early American History and director of the program of american studies at carleton college. Received her undergraduate from those in college and phd from rutgers university. Her new book, we will let people get settled in here. I guess we got started a little early. Her new book goes deeply into boston 1770. Looking at how the soldiers that have been stationed here since the fall of 1768 were not just a seen as an Occupying Force but the neighbors and customers and competitors or in other words as people. And often repeated narrative of increasing tensions that reached a boiling point on march 5. Some soldie
Important debate on Foreign Policy in all of American History. And Public Opinion probably more than any previous debate mattered here in part because for the first time there was a way of gauging Public Opinion. The gallup poll organization had begun regularly polling the American People. So leaders had a much more direct sense of what the people actually thought. You are going to see a lot of polling data in this, in fleshing out exactly what it was that americans thought. I am going to focus quite a bit on Public Opinion and then we will talk about actual policy as a result of that Public Opinion. At the start of the war in europe, my argument is there were two basic positions held almost unanimously by the American People. They wanted britain and france to win the war, to defeat germany. And they did not want the United States to have to fight in that war to make it happen. Over the course of the twoplus years of this debate, nothing that happened really changed fundamentally those