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Served in the confederate navy, youre not welcome in the us navy, right. Well take one final question. Anyone has one. Perfect. All right. Well, i think that that concludes our panel for today. You so much for being here. And thank you so much to our panelists. Well, hello, everyone. Were so excited to have you guys with us today. Im ronald angel johnson. Im the lynch here of history at baylor university, the coeditor of the journal of the early republic. Im delighted to welcome you all to this afternoons roundtable to discuss and outstay ending new book by one of the profession freshmans best scholars on the International Dimensions of the early u. S. , early u. S. Religion and reform. The book is missionary diplomacy, religion in 19th century American Foreign relations this year by, Cornell University p ....
Berkley, area of history and this center. I thought u. S. History for about 25 years. I am retired now. One of the projects that i had was to try and advance the academic study of religion on the campus which had been a sort of hit and miss operation. A group of us thought we ought to do something about this. We have big grants and we now have this Berkley Center which works well, is very pluralistic. We study all kinds of religions. It is open for secular as well as faith commitment discussions. We like to say sometimes that the model of the center is released ink i dont know is too religion is too important to be left in the hands of the people that believe in it. Your focus there. The contribution i have made is the study of American Protestantism. I have been writing about that and i have been incorporated in a number of their projects. I am convening a workshop, bri ....
About purpose is to learn and think about a new book of great importance to members of our society. Davids new book protestants abroad it, a missionary tried to change the world but changed america, we have the galleys. It is not quite available in bookstores. It appears this fall from rinsed in the press. I have the honor of sharing this roundtable. We will proceed as follows. First, david will speak to lay out the books major themes. We will hear from our panel of three distinguished historians responding. They will appear in the order of the program. Thatt to address an error he organizedor, and brought us together. He has modestly declined to participate. He is at the top of the description and we may or may not from here dashcam in the larger discussion. We thank him for bringing us across the room here. After hearing from our panelists, we will turn to open discussion. Hopefully we have 20 of time for that area plenty of time for that area i am pleased to introduce david from the ....
Increasing divorce rates drug use and crime. From the american historical Associations Annual meeting last month in new york city this is two hours. Welcome, everybody, to todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today and i im going to just start out by talking a little bit about what we thought how we kind of framed this panel and what we are kind of hoping to accomplish. One of the things we have set this up as a round table intentionally. All of us were going to speak for maybe about ten minutes, so kind of making a few brief remarks about the literature on the 1970s and thinking you about the 1970s, what this unique time means to us today and then we would like to open it up and have a lot of time for conversation, both among both with each other and most importantly, with the audience. So we are going to be sticking to a pretty, you know pretty tight time and hopefully having a lot of time for c ....