Good evening and welcome to tonights lecture. After the lecture, there will be a q a and book signing. The views of the author do not viewsarily represent the of the museum or the state of new york. We present Glenn Williams tonight who will present dunmores war the last conflict of the colonial american area. Aboutthe author of a book the campaign against the air courier and holds a phd from the university of michigan. I would now like to welcome him. Glenn thank you for that kind introduction. I have to add you heard up i worked on military history. This was done on my own time. It does not reflect the center ,f military history views either. I would like to thank the museum and the sons of the revolution for inviting me here. I love coming here. I talked your once before but every time i come to new york city i always try to find at least one reason, one connection. As you can see, the talk is about dunmores war. It is james dr. John murray, the fourth earl of dunmore. Not John Duns
Book of World Records and in those days in order to get in the guinness book you had to or push a painted across iowa with your nose. When id looked in the guinness book i came upon a word that had the most meaning in english which was set in for. It had 137 meanings. But it was one of the words with the most meanings. The soft underbelly of this book was language and words so i started working on a collection of words and i have now gone through seven or eight collections and in fact there are people in this room who have added to the collection in the last 72 hours. We are now up to almost 3000 words. What was interesting about it was it was not meant to be a celebration of what is a social ill but it was to show the phenomenal sort of what the english language is. And what really got to me was looking at all the people that collected a list of drunkenness from their time. Tom paine Benjamin Franklin Ambrose Bierce Edmund Wilson had all been sort of fascinated by the fact that in his
Host weve been talking with tim gay, author of assignment to hell. Thanks, tim. Guest thank you very much, appreciate it. Next on booktv, paul dickson presents a collection of words popularized by american president s. The authors collection includes warren g. Hardings Founding Fathers invoked during his 1920s president ial campaign, Theodore Roosevelts use of the word muckraker in a speech critical of specific journalists, and military Industrial Complex delivered by president eisenhower during his final president ial address to the American Public in 961. 1961. This is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you very much. Ive been playing around with words for a long time, and i think when i was a kid, one of my i wasnt that athletic, and i wasnt that, you know, smart in various ways, but i could always go home and memorize a couple words, so i would learn words like ap nettic and things like that apathetic, you know, which for the third grader was a lot of of fun. And as i got to
And then immediately after the First World War or the second world war, sorry, we had the only major incidence of increased fertility rate, and thats the baby boom. Everybody knows about the baby boom. And it really was a remarkable moment, because not only did the fertility rate increase quite high, as high as 3. 7, i think, for white americans and, i think, 3. 9 for black americans, not only did it jump up, but it stayed up for an entire generation. It was a really long lasting effect. People changed the way they lived for a generation, and then by 1970 that momentum had ended, and we saw not a gradual floatdown, but really dropping off a cliff. Jonathan last on how changing demographics and birthrates could cause the u. S. To lose its place as a world leader sunday night at 9 eastern on after words on cspan2. And look for more online. Like us on facebook. Next on booktv, paul dickson presents a collection of words popularized by american president s including warren g. Hardings Foun
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