So we can get your questions recorded as well as our authors answers. Lastly, at the end, if you could take a moment, fold up your chairs, lean them against something solid, that will give you more space for the book signing and help us get back to bookselling, all of that good stuff. Welcome to politics and prose. My name is abby fennewald. I run all of our events in the story. If you are not familiar with p p, i would definitely invite you to take a moment and sign up for our weekly email or pick up our may calendar of events, see Everything Else we have going on. We are now operating inside three busboys and poets locations around town, and we are going to be doing events in all those spaces as well, so we are doing more than ever. I would hate for you to miss out on any of it. With that, onto why you are all here. We are so happy to have eric burns back with us i think we said you have been here four times before to talk about his new book, 1920 the year that made the decade roar.
Him as an upandcoming young historian in 2004, when he was on our History Panel when we study the 1864 Valley Campaign early that year. He returned to us in 2007, when we studied the second manassas campaign, and again in 2009, when we studied the 1862 Valley Campaign. In 2012, he was with us for a look at the 1863 battle of chancellorsville, and in 2013, when we studied the prelude to gettysburg, the armies moved north. Scott has written numerous articles and books. The forgotten fury, the battle in 1996,nt, published shenandoah summer, the 1864 Valley Campaign, published by the university of North Carolina press in 2009, second manassas, long street attack, published by the potomac press in 2011, and also that year, the battle of piedmont and hunters raid on staten, published by the history press, and in 2013, the last battle of winchester. And sheraton, jubal early, the 1864 shenandoah Valley Campaign, published by bd. In addition to his articles and books, he served for 10 years on
Decade talking about their books. You can watch our series at 4 00 p. M. Eastern here on American History tv on cspan3. Announcer 2 three College Professors discuss the ways they teach about u. S. Involvement in the vietnam war. Panelists talk about their personal participation in peace and Antiwar Movements and how those experiences translate into their classrooms. This discussion was part of a conference in washington, dc posted in conjunction with the waging peace in vietnam traveling exhibit. And with that, i want to begin with two things. First, there are so many people here to credit. There are so many people who helped create exhibit which is now on the second floor in the atria. If you havent seen it, we invite you to go down during lunch, take a look at it. You have heard a lot about the book waging peace in vietnam. Com, what you havent heard about the publisher which is new village press, distributed by nyu. We are fortunate to have the director of the press Lynn Elizabeth i
july 4 is going to be our birthday. three years from the big 250 and sadly the perception of the state of the unit, our union, not that great of the people in it, americans. 39% say they are extremely proud of our country. a whopping 48% think america s best days are behind us down from 70% in 2011, that was not too long ago. amazing how relevant the warnings and worries still are from 240 years ago even though we see more patriotic back when our country started. challenge number one, spending. not just 2023 think, key concern from america s survivability in the beginning. benjamin franklin of all people born against dangers of overreliance on debt emphasizing the importance of fiscal responsibly for overall health as a country. thomas jefferson similar concern. he says i place economy among the first was supporting the public and virtues and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. we have problems that. alexander hamilton said national debt, if it s not excessiv
july 4 is going to be our birthday. three years from the big 250 and sadly the perception of the state of the unit, our union, not that great of the people in it, americans. 39% say they are extremely proud of our country. a whopping 48% think america s best days are behind us down from 70% in 2011, that was not too long ago. amazing how relevant the warnings and worries still are from 240 years ago even though we see more patriotic back when our country started. challenge number one, spending. not just 2023 think, key concern from america s survivability in the beginning. benjamin franklin of all people born against dangers of overreliance on debt emphasizing the importance of fiscal responsibly for overall health as a country. thomas jefferson similar concern. he says i place economy among the first was supporting the public and virtues and public debt as the greatest of dangers to be feared. we have problems that. alexander hamilton said national debt, if it s not excessiv