University distinguished professor in the arts, humanities and social sciences at the university of cincinnati. Hes the author of seven books on the civil war era. This sbook won the Tom Watson Brown prize. We are delighted to welcome today professor phillips. [ applause ] good afternoon. Thank you for inviting me to speak. Ive long wondered why another ohioillinoisan that ive been summoned east to the mother state. After hearing garys opening talk, i know now. Its to give the naughty talk. After asking kerry about topics to which she replied whatever you wanted to talk about, that sounded a little to me like asking me how long the condemned want the hanging rope to be. I have 30 minutes and the hanging wont take too long but true to naughty form, ill start with a vignette to introduce the western lay of war. An idea that garys union war actually inspired. There, gary, tis the benefit of batting last. Ive got a lot of ground to cover because the west is a rather large theater and i hav
Project Coolidge Foundations centennial conference in honor of president Calvin Coolidge, were pleased to be cohosted with the library of congress and grateful to all of you who are here. Were going to get underway with our panels here in just one moment. But weve been how many other more than 100 students. Weve often been saying there are coolidge senators. And, of course, many of are coolidge senators. But were joined by a number of other student groups. I wanted to be sure that we recognize the first of our 1890 Society Members are part of the Honor Society of the coolidge program. We have maybe a dozen or more joining. So welcome to the 1890 society. From Ashland University, the Ashford Center is here with our ashford scholars. Were so pleased to have you here from ohio. Thank you. Weve had students from bases, d. C. High School Students here at our conference. Welcome to basis. And weve some archer fellows from the university of texas system joining us as well so welcome to our ar
Good morning. Welcome back for day two of coolidge and the american project Coolidge Foundations centennial conference in honor of president Calvin Coolidge, were pleased to be cohosted with the library of congress and grateful to all of you who are here. Were going to get underway with our panels here in just one moment. But weve been how many other more than 100 students. Weve often been saying there are coolidge senators. And, of course, many of are coolidge senators. But were joined by a number of other student groups. I wanted to be sure that we recognize the first of our 1890 Society Members are part of the Honor Society of the coolidge program. We have maybe a dozen or more joining. So welcome to the 1890 society. From Ashland University, the Ashford Center is here with our ashford scholars. Were so pleased to have you here from ohio. Thank you. Weve had students from bases, d. C. High School Students here at our conference. Welcome to basis. And weve some archer fellows from th
Good morning. Welcome back for day two of coolidge and the american project Coolidge Foundations centennial conference in honor of president Calvin Coolidge, were pleased to be cohosted with the library of congress and grateful to all of you who are here. Were going to get underway with our panels here in just one moment. But weve been how many other more than 100 students. Weve often been saying there are coolidge senators. And, of course, many of are coolidge senators. But were joined by a number of other student groups. I wanted to be sure that we recognize the first of our 1890 Society Members are part of the Honor Society of the coolidge program. We have maybe a dozen or more joining. So welcome to the 1890 society. From Ashland University, the Ashford Center is here with our ashford scholars. Were so pleased to have you here from ohio. Thank you. Weve had students from bases, d. C. High School Students here at our conference. Welcome to basis. And weve some archer fellows from th
With the library of congress and grateful to all of you who are here. Were going to get underway with our panels here in just one moment. But weve been how many other more than 100 students. Weve often been saying there are coolidge senators. And, of course, many of are coolidge senators. But were joined by a number of other student groups. I wanted to be sure that we recognize the first of our 1890 Society Members are part of the Honor Society of the coolidge program. We have maybe a dozen or more joining. So welcome to the 1890 society. From Ashland University, the Ashford Center is here with our ashford scholars. Were so pleased to have you here from ohio. Thank you. Weve had students from bases, d. C. High School Students here at our conference. Welcome to basis. And weve some archer fellows from the university of texas system joining us as well so welcome to our archer fellows. We have a terrific day with the number of sessions and a wonderful celebration this evening, which will