Welcome those who are new to the fdr president ial library and museum, our 14th annual roosevelt reading festival. We have already had 14 authors speak today. I dont want to disparage them. We kept the best for last, we will end on a high note. I appreciate you all coming. Those who are members raise your hand. Look at that. That is fantastic. I appreciate you being here and your support, two trustees today, jack goodman says supporting the library for 35 years. [applause] one of the most interesting parts of working here at the library is even though it has been 80 years, new material comes up all the time and new researchers find new things to talk about and expose new aspects of this story, this incredible story. Our incredible speaker has focused in on the final era, 12 days of the era and has written a book that will go down as one of the finest descriptions of this period. He is a pulitzer prizewinning author and one of our great journalists, serve four years as reporter, editor
Good afternoon, everyone. We had a great day so far, welcome those who are new to the fdr president ial library and museum, our 14th annual roosevelt reading festival. We have already had 14 authors speak today. I dont want to disparage them. We kept the best for last, we will end on a high note. I appreciate you all coming. Those who are members raise your hand. Look at that. That is fantastic. I appreciate you being here and your support, two trustees today, jack goodman says supporting the library for 35 years. [applause] one of the most interesting parts of working here at the library is even though it has been 80 years, new material comes up all the time and new researchers find new things to talk about and expose new aspects of this story, this incredible story. Our incredible speaker has focused in on the final era, 12 days of the era and has written a book that will go down as one of the finest descriptions of this period. He is a pulitzer prizewinning author and one of our gre
Ok. Gentlemen, our first speaker today is dr. Timothy s sydnor. He is professor of english at the City University of new york, Bronx Community college. He holds a doctorate in english education, a masters in religious studies, and masters of divinity in theological studies. Person,e have a museum a lawyer, and a theologian. [laughter] discussiono our today the perspective of a scholar who pays close attention to the power of words. All the monuments on our collective commemorative landscape have back stories, stories of individuals or groups , who decided to erect them where or how they are, and to read the words on them that we see today. His 2011 book, an illustrated guide to virginias Confederate Monuments, is the First Complete catalog of virginias monuments, but it is much more than just a catalog. It is a study through those monuments of ideology and meaning and provides a window of what the people who erected them were thinking at the time and wanted to say. Sydor has finished a
Education, a masters in religious studies and masters of divinity and theological studies. So far, we got a museum person, a lawyer, and a you load in. And a theologian. He brings the perspective of a scholar who pays close attention to the power of words. All of the monuments and our collective commemorative landscape have back stories, stories of individuals or groups who decided to write the words on them that we see today. Dr. Sedores 2011 book an illustrated guide to virginias Civil War Monuments is the First Complete catalog of virginias monuments. It is more than a catalog. It is this that he of ideology and meaning and provides a window of what the people who erected them were thinking at the time and wanted to say. Dr. Sedore has finished a similar study of tennessee monuments and is working on another one about mississippi. His wonderful wife patricia tells me that she is a more seen more monuments in more states than anybody else in the union [laughter] mr. Rawls i think tha
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