Four this evening. I am evan dolly, on behalf of the History Program here, welcome. I should say at the outset, we are able to hold this top thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. And let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. Our speaker for this evening is doctor robert chiles. He studied music and found the true faith and began a ph. D. In history in 2012 at the university of maryland. The top he will be giving this evening is a result of that ph. D. Dissertation, i believe. Yes. He has, in the course of this particular research for this project received a couple of prestigious honors the new York State Library Cunningham Research residency, and the new york state archives Ownership Trust hackman residency, to conduct research on governor alfred e. Smith, and as part of his next research project, on a Congress Woman from the state of new jersey and an advocate from the fair labors acts, he has received from the new Je
American progressionism and the coming of the new deal. He argues thattal al smith lost the 1928 election, his ideals and policies paved the way for president roosevelt. Good evening, everyone. Im really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome all of you here for our talk for this evening. Im evan dolley, and on blehalf of the program here, welcome to our history talk. At the outset for being able to hold this talk, thank you to the funding of the history fund which is supporting this event, and let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. So our speaker for this evening is dr. Robert childs. He is a graduate of tascun university. He began a phd in history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012, and the talk hes going to be giving this evening is the result of that phd dissertation, i do believe, yes. He has, during the course of this particular research, or the research for this project, he has received a couple prestigious
Author of the book the revolution of 28 al smith, american progressivism and the coming of the new deal. His Progressive Coalition paved the way for franklin roosevelt. Good evening, everyone. Im really delighted to be able to see all of you here tonight and welcome you all here to our talk for this evening. On behalf of the History Department here, welcome, to our evenings talk. Were able to hold this talk thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. And let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. Our speaker for this evening is dr. Robert chiles. Hes a graduate of town send university where he studied music and found the true faith and began a ph. D. In history which he completed at the university of maryland in 2012. And the talk that hes going to be giving this evening is the result of that ph. D. Dissertation, i do believe, yes. He has in the course of this particular research, the research for this project, hes received a
We will get decent rainfall out of this shower, possible thunderstorm activity, and before it gets here, low clouds are in place. Look for a cooler trend today, cooler and the wind will pick up. We have a delta wind, but tonight, bella will get closer, the coast, and the hills, the wind will crank up area out of the west southwest, the aforementioned low is on its way. It will go over the bay area and it will start to move north. This could give us lightning and thunderstorms. Scattered showers and brief heavy downpours for some. We will finetune this in the coming rainfall projections and 10 minutes. 60s and 70s on your temperatures. Over to sal, lets talk about that. 1978 was a long time ago. Way before my time, sal. I remember it well, steve. Good morning everyone. All right, we have a nice looking commute. One thing is that we dont have slowing at the bay bridge. The first four days we did, but on fridays, even during the pandemic we have friday like traffic, it looks like we have
Host theyve introduced us and told them who we are so we can just Start Talking about your book. The best way to do that is to talk about its author because its a book that makes an argument that depends on the life of the author so we need to know about who you are. But lets talk about that. Anyways, he might want to talk about how you think about your own life. Lets start with, you grew up in new jersey and you grew up and how did your parents get to new jersey and who were they . Guest im the son of a black man, segregated south and my father is 82 years old, born in 1937 in longview, texas and raised in galveston. This was under jim crow and segregation. He moved to the west as soon as he could and was running war on Poverty Programs under Lyndon Johnson Great Society initiative and met my mother who is nine years his junior and san diego where he headed up a Poverty Program and she was fresh out of College Grade she is the daughter of evangelical christians but her father is a min