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
Author of the book the revolution of 28 al smith, american progressivism and the coming of the new deal. His Progressive Coalition paved the way for franklin roosevelt. Good evening, everyone. Im really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome you all here to our talk for this evening. On behalf of the History Department here, welcome, to our evenings talk. Were able to hold this talk thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. And let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. Our speaker for this evening is dr. Robert chiles. Hes a graduate of town send university where he studied music and found the true faith and began a ph. D. In history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012. And the talk that hes going to be giving this evening is the result of that ph. D. Dissertation, i do believe, yes. He has in the course of this particular research, the research for this project, hes received a
Chris bunin. He shows how Geographic Information systems can be used to trace the source and map the spread of diseases throughout history, including cholera, smallpox, and aids. He coauthored the book jamestown to appomattox mapping u. S. History with gis. I am so excited to be here with you. I am joining you from nelson county, virginia just outside of our Albemarle County this is my School Campus where i teach geography, oral history, and geospatial technologies a stones throw away from the border of charlottesville, virginia. If you would like to follow along with some of the links i am sharing today, if you go to this bitly, it is not a perfect alignment to this keynote. I had all the intentions for it to line up perfectly and my children running upstairs had different ideas. I was asked to give this keynote. I said, lets see, i wonder if anyone in this audience knows what gis is. Part one will be a crash course on gis and the power of the geographic inquiry model. Two, we look at
To trace the source and map the spread of diseases throughout history, including cholera, smallpox, and aids. I am so excited to be here with you. I am joining you from virginia outside of albemarle county. This is my School Campus where i teach geography, oral history, and geospatial technologies a stones throw away from the border of charlottesville, virginia. If you would like to follow along with some of the links i am sharing today, if you go to a perfect, it is not alignment to this keynote. I had all the intentions for it pp perfectly and to line u perfectly and my children running upstairs had different ideas. I was asked to give this keynote. Ifaid, lets see, i wonder anyone in this audience knows what gis is. Part one will be a crash course on gis and the power of the geographic inquiry model. Two, we look at how we can use gis and geographic inquiry to teach medical geography historically and can temporarily. We will then discuss how we can use gis to support your students a
Provide here at the Wilson Center in conjunction with our partners at the National History center, his ttorical perspectiv on international and national affairs. Im christian, i direct the history and Public Policy program here at the Wilson Center and i have the privilege to cochair the seminar with my colleague of George Washington university. So this is a joint interbriz by the National History center, initiative of the american historical association, directed by professor dane kennedy. I dont know if danes with us today. Joint initiative between the National History center and history and Public Policy program here, where in our ninth year of holding these sessions every week. Or during the semester, mondays at 4 00 p. M. And i hope to see many of you again for future sessions. Let me thank a couple of sponsors of this series. Frsz the page center for history in the public interest. As well as George Washington history department. I also want to thank a number of anonymous donors