Amanda good evening. Welcome to the Hudson Library historical society. We are so happy you are here for the event. I am amanda flower, one of the here, andlibrarians tonight we are honored to welcome howard means to discuss kentew book 67 shots state and the end of american innocence. Campus,states main only 10 miles from here, where the shooting took place. We are very excited to have this program of national and local interest. Mr. Means is a editor at the washingtonian, author and coauthor of 10 books, including Andrew Johnson and the 45 days that changed the nation, Johnny Appleseed the man, the myth, an american story, and the first biography on colin powell. Please join me in welcoming mr. Means. [applause] means i also wrote 67 shots. [laughter] thank you, amanda. Veryaa herself is also a accomplished novelist in detective, mystery stories, won an Agatha Christie award. But you are stuck with me instead. I talked with a number of people who were at kent state, in 1970. Can you h
On the very back, the rudder. The tiller arm coming from the city would go upstairs to the pilothouse and as the wheel would be turned, it would pull the rope, turn the arm, turn the rudder, and help steer the rope. Travelers traveled on the main deck. The passengers aboard, 150 of them, were terrified. They were not great swimmers, nor were they dressed to swim. They escape by running to the top of the boat as it rank. With a lifeboat, bringing them to shore, they all arrived. No one died, but they lost all the freight. The 18 50s of the Missouri River was called the golden age of the steamboat. A vote withself on your family, 1856. You are on your way west. The wood deck you see here was the size of the arabia. 171 feet long, 30 feet wide. Wheels. Two date paddle standing on the deck looking across the Missouri River, that is where the river traveler of 1856 would see kansas city, main, the warehouse along the riverfront. Riginal would the wheel we rebuilt turns just as you see, one
As a friend from mississippi said, you have a lot of pastors a lot of bloody bastards from your state. [laughter] james one question i get about my book the real custer is why is that the title. What makes your book the real custer . The easiest way to answer that question is to say that is what the publisher wanted. That is the title. I think it is better to view it not as a conclusion, like this is the real custer, but more like a question. Who was the real custer . What we know about this guy. Little bighorn is so pervasive when we talk about George Custer, the whole man is the mistakes he made on that day. That is not the case. Yet a whole life and a whole character and he was a whole person. The book is about trying to get to the root of that question. If we can strip away all the things that have been written since then, all of the history, Everything Else and just talk about the man himself. That is what it is supposed to be about. Bighorn, the famous anheuserbusch advertisement
Hello everyone and welcome back. Our second session is the bible during the american founding era, more accessible or authoritative in the bible. It is featured prominently in political culture, saving the founderss political thoughts and rhetoric. The presentation will expand in scripture to answer fundamental political questions and form an emerging constitutional tradition. The professor and school of Public Affairs and American University here at washington dc where he earned the highest faculty award scholars teacher of the year. Religion in American Public life. His most recent book to reading Founding Fathers. I have it myself. I encourage you to get it in and enjoy. Please welcome me. Please join me in welcoming him. Thank you. It is a pleasure and a joy to be here in this magnificent facility. Inremendous resource we have the nation of the capital. It is a real joy for me to share from scholars whom ive learned a great deal over the years. I thank the team for organizing the d
18thcentury political culture. This presentation will examine the founding generations appeal to scripture to answer fundamental political questions, and to form an emerging constitutional tradition. Daniel dries deck is with american university, where he earned american universities highest faculty award. His Research Interests include constitutional law and the intersection of politics, law, and religion in American Life. Book, i encourage you to get it and enjoy it. Dreisdech. Come dr. [applause] prof. Dreisbach thank you very much. It is a real pleasure and a joy to be here today in this magnificent facility in this tremendous resource that we have here in the nations capital. Let me also say it is a real joy for me to share the platform with two scholars from whom i have learned a great deal over the years. I think kay and the team for organizing todays event. This morning, i have going to be drawing on my book, reading bible with the founding fine fathers, andng to the founding o