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. Im really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome all of you here for our talk for this evening. Im 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 hes 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 received a couple prestigious
Ago the first pioneers crossed the oceans to a new world. A promise called the promise of a land where a man could build. His own raise his children in freedom. They call from the wilderness and empire of agriculture and industry. Themselves new and Higher Standards of living and yet in one of the great River Valleys of america something went wrong. Here in the Tennessee Valley three centuries later the descendants of the pioneers were a neglected people. Living in a ruined land for these children the hope and the thomas were dead for them. The only future was poverty ignorance drudgery. The struggle to scratch a bare living from the reluctant soil even the older man had forgotten that the valley had once been bright with promise and with hope Horace Higgins was one of the many who had given up the fight. Whats the use he said . Fill up those gullies in the first rain washes it away. Its the same with all the land around here. It may have been good land once. But its bad land now. Badl
Ago the first pioneers crossed the oceans to a new world. A promise called the promise of a land where a man could build. His own raise his children in freedom. They call from the wilderness and empire of agriculture and industry. Themselves new and Higher Standards of living and yet in one of the great River Valleys of america something went wrong. Here in the Tennessee Valley three centuries later the descendants of the pioneers were a neglected people. Living in a ruined land for these children the hope and the thomas were dead for them. The only future was poverty ignorance drudgery. The struggle to scratch a bare living from the reluctant soil even the older man had forgotten that the valley had once been bright with promise and with hope Horace Higgins was one of the many who had given up the fight. Whats the use he said . Fill up those gullies in the first rain washes it away. Its the same with all the land around here. It may have been good land once. But its bad land now. Badl