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
Library and has gone through and found a very interesting documents that other people have 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 in addition to that, on top of his research skills, he is an excellent writer. Ive had the privilege of reading many of his books, including the one thats just come out. And i can tell you that as much as i followed the subjects and have done my own research there were many points i came across new information and said wow, that really explains whats going on. So if you want to understand the difference in the United States in the 1970s, and 1980s, and in case you have forgotten, there were significant differences. And you want to know about the sort of transition to the time when jimmy carter was president to the time when Ronald Reagan was president. If you want to understand the
His undergraduate work was done where my father and my brother 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 that he minds the resources of the president ial libraries. He has come here to the Carter Library and has gone through and found a very interesting document that other people have not seen before and he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that he is also mind the resources of the archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. And in addition to that on top of his Research Skills come he , he is an excellent writer. Ive had the privilege of reading many of his books including the one thats just come out. And i can tell you that as much as i followed the subjects and have done my own research there were many points i came across new information and said wow , that really explains whats going on. So if you want to
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That umbrella a we will check with kyla grogan outside on the sky deck. What do you think a few more hours left of sunshine. Definitely, it is gorgeous out here right now, we are feeling wind pick up, southeasterly wind, very different from this morning. An indication of the weather coming our way. Right now it is lovely out there. In center city if we look the at the temperature it is 75 degrees out and you can see that wind of 14 miles an hour and it is getting breezy as we speak. Now this is, a live look the at storm scan three. You can see Stormy Weather rolling through central pennsylvania. Southern part of the line of storms that is what will be tracking toward us here in philadelphia. Set to get to us a little bit later in the day. We are under a marginal risk for severe thunderstorms. That means heavy downpours, gusty wind and thunder certainly possible with these storms as they make their way toward us. Unfortunately yeah, if you are on the road at this time it could be tricky