are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on american history tv. tv,ext on american history novelist and historian kevin baker discusses his book, america the genius: how a generation of tinkerers changed the world. at an event in cape cod, mr. baker describes what he think s are key factors in the nation s innovative spirit. guestant to thank our tonight. kevin baker has written several your, at you are still in but also was raised in rockport, massachusetts. he has experienced being a massachusetts person. tonight,ing forward to keeping an ion the weather, but please welcome kevin baker. mark, for having me. great to be on the cape, if only virtually. hoped to be there, but i am going to have to make do. talk to you about america the ingenious, this book i wrote. the best thing about writing books is that hopefully, you learn something. i learned a great deal writing this. americansory of how invented, developed or learned to exploit so many innovat
you d like to congratulate all of you who voted for the virginia ham sandwich as the sandwich of the year. i had one of them, and mine was not the deciding vote, i want you to know. our next speaker is robert c. kenzer. bob is the william benford vest chair of history at the university richmond, where he has taught for almost 25 years. for most of those year he has been the ally for the lecture series which we do each year jointly with the university of richmond in september. like will green, bob has a bill cooper connection. bill studied under the late david donnel at john hopkins university. bob was also a david donnel student, although a few years later at harvard university. he teaches a wide variety of classes for the university of richmond, including several on aspects of the civil war in film. his research interest for many years has been civil war widows. he is currently researching a biography of a british-born civil war widow, elizabeth louisa knights harris. please
recipient. next robert kenzer nominates abraham lincoln, citing lincoln s influence in the amendment that eradicated slavery in the oustu.s. this is about 45 minutes. you d like to congratulate all of you who voted for the virginia ham sandwich as the sandwich of the year. i had one of them, and mine was not the deciding vote, i want you to know. our next speaker is robert c. kenzer. bob is the william benford vest chair of history at the university richmond, where he has taught for almost 25 years. for most of those year he has been the ally for the lecture series which we do each year jointly with the university of richmond in september. like will green, bob has a bill cooper connection. bill studied under the late david donnel at john hopkins university. bob was also a david donnel student, although a few years later at harvard university. he teaches a wide variety of classes for the university of richmond, including several on aspects of the civil war in film. his resea
university richmond, where he has taught for almost 25 years. for most of those year he has been the ally for the lecture series which we do each year jointly with the university of richmond in september. like will green, bob has a bill cooper connection. bill studied under the late david donnel at john hopkins university. bob was also a david donnel student, although a few years later at harvard university. he teaches a wide variety of classes for the university of richmond, including several on aspects of the civil war in film. his research interest for many years has been civil war widows. he is currently researching a biography of a british-born civil war widow, elizabeth louisa knights harris. please help me welcome bob kenzer to the podium. [ applause ] before i begin my talk, i have a question for everyone in the audience. i want to do a little poll. how many of you this is the fifth of the five talks you ve been it toto. i know one gentleman. maybe half of you have b
years has been civil war widows. he is currently researching a biography of a british-born civil war widow, elizabeth louisa knights harris. please help me welcome bob kenzer to the podium. [ applause ] before i begin my talk, i have a question for everyone in the audience. i want to do a little poll. how many of you this is the fifth of the five talks you ve been it toto. i know one gentleman. maybe half of you have been to all five. okay. how many have been to four? including this one obviously? four. three? two? and one? okay. well, it just shows that you ve been here before of the you ve gone through the cycle. i begin with that question, oh, by the way, i have to tell you as you can see, i m the fourth person who s speaking today. originally, i was supposed to be the third person, but we changed the order a little. i have to wonder about conspiracies. [ laughter ] the fourth person has never been successful. [ laughter ] the fourth person comes after lunch. when your