Of the Revolution Society this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. We are very pleased to partner with Haverford Trust youll see them up on the screen here. I know tim glaspie but i can see is darkness out there, lets thank them for making read the revolutionary possible. [applause] now it is a real pleasure to be welcoming doctor vincent of brown evening. As is sometimes the case are also welcoming a good friend to the museum here this evening. Vince was one of the group of scholars who consulted with us during the development of the exhibition interactions for the museum here so long before the shovel was in the ground in the steel began rising here at third and chestnut in philadelphia, we were tapping vincents brain for exciting stories of the American Revolution, some which really turn it a great personal stories in our core exhibition here. This is a charles worn professor of American History and africanAmerican History at Harvard Universit
In the near future on booktv on cspan2. Welcome to you all, im scott stevenson, im the president ceo of the museum of the American Revolution. Its wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience and im pleased were live stream the program this evening and we will be on booktv so we will live on forever and ever as 3 00 a. M. When you cant sleep. I will get a text from my father the following morning that says youre on television again. Im curious a show of hands id like to ask how many of you are visiting the first time this evening to the museum. Welcome to all of you. You are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museum, members of our Revolution Society and this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. We are very pleased to partner with Haverford Trust you will see them up on the screen here. I know tim glaspie but all i can see is darkness out there, tim and joe mcglocklin. Lets thank them for making r
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Outside the rest the world. In some ways, this is not a new thing. People have been brining people up and writing histories years civil war since after the conflict ended. A combination of the sesquicentennial from new rethinkings on what 19thcentury globalization is, and our current context where americans are rethinking what it means to be part of a larger world in a postcold war era has generated a lot of rich scholarship in the last decade or so that situates the u. S. Civil war in a broader context. We are fortunate to have three young and excellent scholars who are going to help guide us through this. We look forward to your questions at the end. I am going to start to my left, Dave Thompson is assistant professor of history at sacred heart university. He was aa Knowledge High School scholarship student some time ago. [applause] his research focuses on finance during the civil war. His first book the evolution of Global Financial markets in the civil war era is slated for publica