Election and his defeat in 1980 by mr. Reagan. Mr. Balmer spoke at the Jimmy Carter Museum in atlanta back in 2014. Welcome. Its a pleasure for me tonight to introduce randall balmer, professor of arts and sciences at dartmouth college. I have followed his career for a long time. His under graduate work was done at a school where my father was a dean and my brother joe attended that school at the same time. And randy has turned into one of our great, modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great is he really minds the resources of president ial libraries. He really mines the resources of president ial libraries. He has come to the carter library, gone through and found very interesting documents that other people had not seen before. And he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that, he has also mined the resources of the archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. And on top of his research skills, h
Images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every ten years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians across the country rank our president s. Now, who knows how our current president is going to rank . Nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes itll be lincoln, sometimes washington, sometimes f. D. R. But the interesting thing about this is that we do not know what george really looked like. We have images of lincoln. We have photograph images. And you can follow those photographs over time and see how he changed, how he aged. And of course we have images of f. D. R. We even have some images of him in his wheelchair. And generally the press did not take images of him in his wheelchair. But with George Washington, he was there before photography so we dont have photographs of him. What we have instead are artists representations and those are not always very accurate. I mean, you look at
Captioning funded by cbs good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im tom hanson. Annemarie green is off. We begin with the coronavirus outbreak thats gripping the world. The first groups of american evacuees held at california bases are set to be released today. Theyve been under quarantine for two weeks after arriving from the epicenter of the outbreak. China says at least 98 more people have died from the illness. The death toll in the country now stands at more than 1,800. As we learn the director of a leading hospital in yew happen has died from the virus, the number of cases worldwide tops 73,000. Meanwhile, delta and Hawaiian Airlines are working with Health Officials in the u. S. And japan to trace the contacts of japanese o japanese couple, rather, to tested positive for the coronavirus after returning home f hawaii. More than 300 americans exposed to the virus and evacuated from a cruise ship off japan are now under qu
Interacted with his contemporaries, how he viewed himself, and how we remember him today. Professor smith today, what we are planning to do is spend a little time talking about George Washington and the character he developed over a lifetime. If you think about what we have done for the duration of this course, we brought him into the story intermittently throughout, whether it is talking about individual bibles or how he organized men or how he recruited men to get them to stay in the service. One of the things i try to get across whenever i talk about washington is that washington is a bit of an enigma to the modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he looked. When i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians around the country rank our president. Who knows how current president is going to rank. Nonetheless. Whenever those rankings come out, these t
Washington is that washington is an enigma to the modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he looked. When i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientist and historians around the country rank our president. Who knows how current president is going to rank. Whenever those rankings come out, these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes it will be lincoln, sometimes it will be washington , sometimes it will be fdr, but the interesting thing about this is we do not know what george really looks like. We had images of lincoln, photographed images and you can follow those photographs over time and see how he changed, how he aged and of course we have images of fdr. We even have some images of him in his wheelchair. Generally, the press did not take images of him in his wheelchair, but with George Washington, he was there before photography, so we dont have photographs of