Good afternoon. And welcome to the historic Trinity United Methodist church. We feel so fortunate to be in this beautiful space which has been made possible by the generosity of jack and mary romanos. Im honored to serve as a volunteer for the 11th annual savannah festival,o and im so glad you also are participating in this years festival presented by georgia power, by david and nancy citron, the Sheehan Family foundation and mark y and pat suen. Wed also like to thank our wonderful literati members as well as individual sponsors and donors who have made f and continue to make saturday at the book festival a free event. 90 of the revenue for the savannah book festival, in fact, comes from donors like you, so thank you very much. Were excited to have a savannah bookik festival app available year, so please look in your program if you would like information on downloading that app to your telephone. Before we get started, a couple of housekeeping notes. Immediatelys following this presen
It exceeded our expectations certainly. So thank you to everyone for all the terrific presentations. Thanks very much. [applause] and this wont be the last you will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile an edit new volume in our women f. Cody series of the American West with the university of oklahoma press. All of the presenters are invited, as they know, to submit their work for consideration for this volume. Then all of the rest of you are invited to purchase and read that volume when it comes out. [laughter] stay tuned. Its a great pleasure to introduce tonights keynote speaker. Paul Andrew Hutton is an american historian. He is an awardswinning author, writer and television permanent. He serves as a distinguished professor of history at the university of new mexico. As we all know, he is published quite widely in both scholarly academic venues and popular magazines. He has reach add very large audience through that kind of work. His work has been recognize
[applause] and this wont be the last you will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile an edit a new volume in our women f. Cody series of the American West with the university of oklahoma press. All of the presenters are invited, as they know, to submit their work for consideration for this volume. Then all of the rest of you are invited to purchase and read that volume when it comes out. [laughter] stay tuned. Its a great pleasure to introduce tonights keynote speaker. Paul Andrew Hutton is an american historian. He is an awardswinning author, writer and television permanent. Personality. He serves as a distinguished professor of history at the university of new mexico. As we all know, he is published quite widely in both scholarly academic venues and popular magazines. He has reached a very large audience through that kind of work. His work has been recognized far and wide. He is a sixtime winner of the western writers of america spur award and a sixtime winner
Sensitivities in mind, hoover officialhe take a semi tour latin america after the election. Coolidge agreed. Earlyovember 19 1928 to january 1929, hoover not only stayed out of washington. Better still, he stayed out of the country. Fulfilling an29, ambition that had touched his soul for a decade or longer, Herbert Hoover became president of the United States. He had done so without ever elective public office. For an hour and a half, he and Calvin Coolidge stood, sat and walked sidebyside without saying a word to each other. In his inaugural address, hoover paid tribute to his right predecessor. Is when the ceremony was over, they said goodbye, and the expresident went home to new england. Announcer 2 you can watch this and other American History programs on our website where the video is archived. That is cspan. Org history. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Buffalo Bills death at the buffalo and the Buffalo Bills Center Hosted a symposium. Western historian paul hutton delive
Press. All of the presenters are invited, as they know, to submit their work for consideration for this volume. Then all of the rest of you are invited to purchase and read that volume when it comes out. [laughter] so stay tuned. Its a great pleasure to introduce tonights keynote speaker. Paul Andrew Hutton is an american cultural historian. He is an awardwinning author. He is a documentary writer and television personality. Hi him him him him him he serves as a distinguished professor of history at the university of new mexico. As we all know, he is published quite widely in both scholarly academic venues and popular magazines. And he has reached a very large audience through that kind of work. His work has been recognized far and wide. He is a sixtime winner of the western writers of america spur award and a sixtime winner of the western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy and western Heritage Museum for his work in both print and film. It was his book jeremy mentioned the other