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american progressionism and the coming of the new deal. he argues thattal al smith lost the 1928 election, his ideals and policies paved the way for president roosevelt. good evening, everyone. i m really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome all of you here for our talk for this evening. i m evan dolley, and on blehalf of the program here, welcome to our history talk. at the outset for being able to hold this talk, thank you to the funding of the history fund which is supporting this event, and let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. so our speaker for this evening is dr. robert childs. he is a graduate of tascun university. he began a phd in history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012, and the talk he s going to be giving this evening is the result of that phd dissertation, i do believe, yes. he has, during the course of this particular research, or the research for this project, he has receive ....
author of the book the revolution of 28: al smith, american progressivism and the coming of the new deal. his progressive coalition paved the way for franklin roosevelt. good evening, everyone. i m really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome you all here to our talk for this evening. on behalf of the history department here, welcome, to our evening s talk. we re able to hold this talk thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. and let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. our speaker for this evening is dr. robert chiles. he s a graduate of town send university where he studied music and found the true faith and began a ph.d. in history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012. and the talk that he s going to be giving this evening is the result of that ph.d. dissertation, i do believe, yes. he has in the course of this particular research, the research for thi ....
give you a timeline as to what robert ely did in the postwar years, often the most overlooked portion of his life. the other main theme of this lecture i will try to get across i would amount of not say he did a lot of work but through his own personal example is probably the best way. robert his own example, e lee tries to reconcile the nation. havei think a lot of us forgotten is how far apart this country was in 1865. is the view of a lot of people that lee surrendered at appomattox and then, bam, we will forget about it. we will just hold hands and reunite and continue down the path again. decades,the country some would say a century, someone say not even yet, for the country to reunite. i would put the country seriously coming back together in the spanish-american war when we all had a common enemy once again. that would be roughly 30 years after the end of the civil war. robert e lee does not live that long. he is only going to live for five years. but you thi ....
07:50:49 this is a test caption from the national captioning institute. 07:50:53 this is a test caption from the national captioning institute. he gets back and steps inside. depending on who you read, whatever mary was trying to say here, it is hard to read mary at times. whether she was hard or nice or whatever. anyway, lee is always chastising his family, his girls, for being late for dinner. he is a punctual man. so when he comes in, miss mary says, why are you late? you have kept us waiting. the dutiful husband, lee pulls off his overcoat, hangs it on the rack, steps to the table. he starts to say grace. and nothing comes out of his mouth. he just freezes. i cannot describe it i did not see it. the onlookers say that that pale came over him at that moment. right there. misses lee got up and walked over to him and patted him on the hand and says, oh dear, you look tired, let me get you a cup of tea. lee ....
shenandoah valley campaign, may 18 1864, which was published in 2010 and tonight. he s here to talk about his newest book from arlington to appomattox. robert e. lee s civil war day by 1861 to 1865. and so with that i m going to turn the screen over to our guest author. great. thank you, kelly. and see him there we go. all right, and good evening everybody and it s my pleasure to be here with y all and like kelly said tonight. i m gonna be talking to you a little bit about my newest book from arlington to appomattox, which is kind of a an almanac or reference book if you will about excuse me about lee during the civil war. and make my brady box thing or brady bunch thing over here go away so i can actually see my slides. there we go. okay. i think the the best way to talk about what this book is is really to talk about what it s not. it s not your basic lead biography. i m sure many of you are familiar with eb longs. book the civil war day by day. this is kind of like t ....