Okay thank you all for joining us this evening tonight on the very eve of the children 50th anniversary of the boston massacre we will hear from professor serena with a great new book the boston massacre, Family History. As a regular guest notes we pull together small exhibition from our collection that highlights the material we have within our holdings that eliminates the discussion today we have an entire exhibition. We did not need a small exhibition this time. That only to have a small exhibition bar exhibition actually features our speaker this evening. If you do not see it shes on the video monitors upstairs and was also very generous with her time helping us pull in the exhibition and sitting for interview. We certainly could not of done our current exhibition without her help, we owe her a debt of gratitude. Serena is a professor of Early American History and directory of a program of american studies at carleton college. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees her
Abolitionists immigrated to kansas and their efforts to make kansas a free state and their impact on the civil war. Good morning, everyone and welcome to the watkins. Its my distinct pleasure and honor to welcome our keynote speaker today. Mr. Robert k. Sutton. Mr. Sutton retired as chief historian of the National Park service in 2016, after serving in the position for nearly nine years. He came here after being superintendent of the manassas state park for 12 useful years and published articles and reviews on various history topics. One of his primary interests as chief historian and superintendent at manassas was heeding the emphasis on expanding the interpretation of the civil war for the centennial. He is assisting Commission Staff in developing interpretive programs to commemorate the centennial of world war i and currently working on a book on world war i aimed at middle school children. He has continued teaching and teaches courses in the john hopkins Senior Adult Program on the
Up next on American History tv, former National Park chief historian, robert sutton, explained why new england abolitionists immigrated to kansas and their efforts to make kansas a free state and their impact on the civil war. Good morning, everyone and welcome to the watkins. Its my distinct pleasure and honor to welcome our keynote speaker today. Mr. Robert k. Sutton. Mr. Sutton retired as chief historian of the National Park service in 2016, after serving in the position for nearly nine years. He came here after being superintendent of the manassas state park for 12 useful years and published articles and reviews on various history topics. One of his primary interests as chief historian and superintendent at manassas was heeding the emphasis on expanding the interpretation of the civil war for the centennial. He is assisting Commission Staff in developing interpretive programs to commemorate the centennial of world war i and currently working on a book on world war i aimed at middle
And published articles and reviews on various history topics. One of his primary interests as chief historian and superintendent at manassas was heeding the emphasis on expanding the interpretation of the civil war for the centennial. He is assisting Commission Staff in developing interpretive programs to commemorate the centennial of world war i and currently working on a book on world war i aimed at middle school children. He has continued teaching and teaches courses in the john hopkins Senior Adult Program on the world west and will be on the viking Ocean Cruises as well. He has written a book published by sky horse publishing in august, 2017. Ers he and his son, lee, are editing an autobiography written by his father and lees grandfather. With that, i would like to introduce mr. Robert k. Sutton. Good morning. Good morning. I cant tell you how excited i am to be here. This is i mean im sitting here with goosebumps while im hearing the names of the victims of quantrels raid and you
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