Joining us my name is gavin and the director of programs exhibitions and partnerships for the National Historic society. I would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who might be attending a Virtual Program for the first time. Considering the size of our virtual crowd in the geographic diversity of the people who signed up, im sure there are some people who are in for the first time. If youre not familiar with nhs we are the oldest Historical Society in america. Founded in 1791 and have been an independent Nonprofit Institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our nation and States History the past 229 years. In these days of social distancing we are taking to hosting Virtual Events we have Online Events for every week through july. Next week we will be hosting a virtual tour the tour is titled misled and a look at historic a a these include mimic houses suspicious ain a marker that denotes the side of the famous vikings bar if youd like to join the tou
Champion the rule of capture of the wildcatter. A very evangelical etiology, if you will. One of them was robert kerr, a more hopeful optimistic positive kind of wildcatter if you will as oklahomas governor and senator in the 1940s and 50s, he labored to meet independent oils needs and carried the mantdle for the dispo sesed, although a wealthy dispo sesed. Giving small producers the protection they deserved. Whats interesting here, too, is how kerr very prominent Southern Baptist was able to fold his kind of politics and his interests in the protection of independent oilmen with his faith in the ability of individuals to approach scripture and christ on their own terms much as the same way they approached subsurface minerals. There was also a harder edge to this wild cattle christianity that emerged in the 70s. Connecting the fear of peek oil, the fear that america was losing its ability to control its most valued resource, losing that to the middle east, to saudi arabia. That took th
Their writings, statements, and votes evidence that the majority of them embrace these great principles for the basis for a civilized nation. As might be expected ped godgecal tests americas providential history written in 1989 has its list of seven principles of liberty in the conclusion. The list is not original but rather is taken from a widely cited and circulated work by slater teaching and learning americans christian history. If we try to sum up the principles that appear across all of these different texts and distill them into a common core conservative christians generally agree that the principles, the true meanings lessons and motivators of the founding era were high level of protestant devotion and strong protestant institution gods covenant with the american people, the powerful flowering of an undefined liberty. This can be personal or economic liberty. And the faithfulness of the founding fatsers. Because they motivated the economiccal event of the American Revolution t
Weeks, the congress actively moving forward with its proposed sanctions bill could have an unpredictable effect on leadership opinion public opinion, in tehran. Just to set the scene then ill ask simon gas who is leading our delegation in the direct talks with the iranians to say something, but just to set the scene, there has been some movement over the last few weeks. We have seen some movement. There is reason for cautious optimism, signals coming out of tehran there is a desire to try to find a deal. But there is still difficult issues in which there is no movement at all. And you have to make heroic assumptions to get to the point where it is all agreed in the next two or three weeks. But i think compared to where we were when we left vienna in november, i think actually we have made quite significant progress over the last few weeks. But still very challenging. Well, firstly on the intervention, i think it cuts in both directions. You may have seen a spirited reply to the letter
Tribune book fast. New the end of june, the annual roosevelt reading festival. In the middle of july, we are live at the harlem book fair hearing fair. At the beginning of september we are live from the Nations Capital for the National Book festival. Thats a few of the events this summer on cspan twos book tv. Gettysburg College History professor talks about the role of religion in American Life before, during, and after the civil war. He argues that soldiers often had a difficult time maintaining religious sentiments. He also describes the rise of moral relativism since both the north and south and have gone on their side. The Manhattan Institute hosted this hour long event at the harvard club in new york city. Moderator ok. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much. We are ready to begin. I am james pearson. Im a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. We are pleased to have allen guelzo here to talk about the civil war. 150 years ago this week Abraham Lincolns funeral was making i