Me and from the side Henry Kissinger said, by definition, the people who cannot hear will not respond. [laughter] youre at the Wilson Center and today is another in our books at wilson series featuring the latest book by the remarkable james reston who is a Wilson Center global fellow. The topic of the book deals with a contentious period in the history of the vietnam war, and the book itself deals with the contentious debate over how to mark that war and the american role and sacrifice during that period. That was fraught with politics and contention over the appropriate artistic expression to memorialize that dramatic period in American History. The Gold Standard of book reviews remains the new york times. They reviewed it this week and described the book as superb and affecting in terms of the emotions it evokes as one reads it. It is a fantastic volume. Jim has been affiliated as a fellow at the Wilson Center. It is remarkable the topics he has taken on in 17 books. The range from
Good evening and welcome to the Lincoln Group of washington, d. C. It is a pleasure to have you all here tonight for our speaker program. Those also who are watching on cspan. The Lincoln Group of washington, d. C. , is the longest, continuously functioning lincoln organization having been founded in the 1930s. Www. Ve a website at lincolngroup. Org, which is where our members and friends find out what we are doing. We are pleased tonight that our speaker is charles strozier. Charles is both a historian, professor at the City University of new york, but also a practicing psychoanalyst, and his study of Abraham Lincoln, which began many years ago 40 years ago and more has culminated in the book he published last year, your a. Lincoln the enduring friendship of Abraham Lincoln and joshua speed. Author of many books. In particular in 2011, and the anniversary of 9 11, his book until the fires stopped burning the11 and new york city in words and experiences of survivors and witnesses was n
I want to remind everybody that todays meeting is on the record. It is also being livestreamed over the internet on cfr. Org so everyone who is watching us by the internet, welcome. Also remember since this is on the record, anything you say can and possibly will be used against you. It is my great pleasure to introduce the three distinguished historians we have with us today to talk about world war i. You all have complete bios so im not going to go through everything our panelists have written over the course of their distinguished careers, but i want to briefly introduce them. We will go from my immediate right, at least geographically. Let me begin by introducing john milton cooper, he is Professor Emeritus of history at the university of wisconsin, madison, and he is written on that has written widely on early 19thcentury and 20thcentury history. His books include Woodrow Wilson a biography and breaking the heart of the world. Next, professor jennifer keene. She is professor and c
We have a lot of returning people, a lot of first time people. Great to have three great friends here i will introduce them in a moment. Im also very thankful for cspan. We have cspan here. I think this is the first time that cspan has been here to our beautiful campus. A lot of are everything they do no filter, no commentary, they just show whats going on and let it speak for itself. I have to give ron credit. He is one of our speakers on the rosenbergs. Said, youve got to invite cspan. Have never seen a lineup like this on a conference on communism. They will come. He was right. Called that exactly right. I have five minutes right now to set this up and introduce these guys, then get out of the way. We go until 11 00. I was thinking, how do you is thece a topic this 100th anniversary of people should like revolution, the Logic International communism how can i properly set up . I thought i would share and email i exchanged with a former student. Terrific kid, now teaching at a colleg
You may have noticed this event originally called for our speaker bill fowler to be here. He is my predecessor at the Historical Society, which many of you already know. He is a distinguished repressor of history at northeastern professor of history at northeastern. We realized that such a fundamental story of the irish in boston would benefit from additional perspectives. He suggested, i will give him credit, this conversation would have more depth if we invited others, leading subject experts on the irish famine in the american response. We are pleased bill is joined tonight by catherine shannon, the guest historian of exhibition at westfield state university. We have christine can nearly, author and founding director of irelands Great Hunger Institute at quinnipiac university. Please welcome me in joining join me in welcoming, bill, christine, and kathleen. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you to all of your staff and trustees for hosting this exhibit. Louder. Louder, ok. Close