Also president ial hopefuls from both parties on the campaign trail enthusiastically pandering to the hispanic voters during Cinco De Mayo former Florida Governor jeb bush has self promoting video but his was in spanish not to be left out Hillary Clintons calls for american citizenship for all Illegal Immigrants we take this up with one volumes and our political editor. The Islamic State claims irresponsibility for the terrorist attack on our freedom of speech in texas with a contest for best cartoon of mohammed. We have k. T. Mcfarland and our strategic analyst colonel robert peters. Why this administration does not have the stomach to confront the radical islamists enemies. Beginning with the new narrative that seeks to looks at those riots to project the causes of those civil unrest as part of what mr. Obama seeks to describe as a larger and more profound racial divide. Using an appearance on the late show with David Letterman to address racism in america. We dont have to accuse eve
Also president ial hopefuls from both parties on the campaign trail enthusiastically pandering to the hispanic voters during Cinco De Mayo former Florida Governor jeb bush has self promoting video but his was in spanish not to be left out Hillary Clintons calls for american citizenship for all Illegal Immigrants we take this up with one volumes and our political editor. The Islamic State claims irresponsibility for the terrorist attack on our freedom of speech in texas with a contest for best cartoon of mohammed. We have k. T. Mcfarland and our strategic analyst colonel robert peters. Why this administration does not have the stomach to confront the radical islamists enemies. Beginning with the new narrative that seeks to looks at those riots to project the causes of those civil unrest as part of what mr. Obama seeks to describe as a larger and more profound racial divide. Using an appearance on the late show with David Letterman to address racism in america. We dont have to accuse eve
Richardson. She chronicles the evolution of the party of lincoln and examines the origins of the party in the slaveholding south, arguing it was founded to advocate for the middle class against elite plantation owners. She also looks at the republican figures who defined the party like president Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt, and ronald , reagan. The National History center of the American Historical Association at the Wilson Center cohosted this event. It is about an hour and a half. Host it is my real pleasure to introduce Heather Cox Richardson today, someone whose work i have been reading and admiring for some time now. She is a professor of history at boston college. And every time i think i have caught up with what she has written, she produces yet another book. So i have to keep reading but i do so with great pleasure. She has written five books on various aspects of American History. She is a 1992 graduate of Harvard Universitys program in the history of American Civilizat
In her current book, to make men free a history of the Republican Party which was , published late last year, this was her second book to be named as an editors choice selection of the New York Times book review. Professor richardson writes widely for popular publication. She is committed to presenting historical scholarship or four audiences on the economys wall. She is now the editor of and founder of a new web magazine called we are history. She is at work on an intellectual history of american politics and aggressive treatment of the reconstruction era. Heather richardson. Prof. Richardson thank you very much. It is a real pleasure to be here. And not just because i am coming from boston. [laughter] can everybody hear me in the back . Are we ok . Terrific. What i want to talk about today is not just the Republican Party but why we might care about the Republican Party even if we are not into politics. We turn it on . Prof. Richardson that is why asked you if you could hear back the
Examines the origins of the party and the slaveholding south, arguing it was founded to advocate for the middle class against elite plantation owners. She also looks at the republican figures who defined the party like resident Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan. The National History center of the American Historical Association at the Wilson Center cohosted this event. It is about an hour and a half. Host it is my real pleasure to introduce Heather Cox Richardson today, someone whose work i have been reading and admiring for some time now. She is a professor of history at boston college. And every time i think i have caught up with what she has written, she produces yet another book. So i have to keep reading but i do so with great pleasure. She has written five books on various aspects of American History. She is a 1992 graduate of Harvard Universitys program in the history of American Civilization and her first four books explored civil war the gilded age, and the