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Weekend History 2012 CHAIRMAn’s CounCIL SPEAKERS HONORARY CO-CHAIRS CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY JONATHAN ALTER KATI MARTON Akhil Reed Amar Columnist, Author and Joyce Appleby Bloomberg View Human Rights Activist Debby Applegate Sven Beckert Thomas Bender David Blight JAMES BASKER CARMEN REINHART Douglas Brinkley SEVENTH ANNUAL President, Dennis Weatherstone Ric Burns Gilder Lehrman Institute Senior Fellow, David Cannadine of American History Peterson Institute Robert A. Caro for International Economics Ron Chernow WEEKEND Andrew Delbanco with DAVID BROOKS MICHAEL J. SANDEL Eric Foner Columnist, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Henry Louis Gates, Jr. HISTORY The New York Times Professor of Government, Doris Kearns Goodwin Harvard University John Steele Gordon Harold Holzer Daniel Walker Howe JOHN LEWIS GADDIS ALAN TAYLOR Kenneth T. Jackson Robert A. Lovett Professor of History, Edward P. Jones Professor of History, University of California David Kennedy Yale University at Davis Jill Lepore Pauline Maier Steven Mintz BEVERLY GAGE NICHOLAS THOMPSON David Nasaw Associate Professor Senior Editor, Andrew Roberts of History, The New Yorker Cokie Roberts Yale University Simon Schama Stacy Schiff Benno C. Schmidt PAUL KENNEDY IAN TOLL J. Richardson Dilworth Author Russell Shorto FRIDAY, APRIL 13 Peter Silver Professor of History, Jean Edward Smith SATURDAY, APRIL 14 Yale University . Lesley Stahl C 2012 N I Robert A.M. Stern Richard Sylla BILL KRISTOL GORDON S. WOOD Sean Wilentz METROPOLITAN CLUB Editor, Professor of History Emeritus, 1 East 60th Street in New York City The Weekly Standard Brown University Jay Winik POULIN + MORRIS N: G Gordon Wood DESI Cover Image: Marie-François-Régis Gignoux, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (detail), ca. 1843. Oil on canvas. New-York Historical Society, Gift of an Anonymous Donor, X.21 Invitation.indd 2 1/25/12 2:05 PM PROGRAM You are cordially invited to join the SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2012 CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY and attend the 8:30 AM Breakfast and Opening Session SEVENTH ANNUAL 9:00 AM Election 2012 Why Documents Matter WEEKEND Every presidential campaign is a fight for America’s future and the 2012 August 1776: a printer in South Carolina publishes and signs a copy election promises to be just as dramatic, contentious and emotional of The Declaration of Independence to spread the news of American with as we have come to expect from our national politics. Veteran political independence through the South Carolina hinterlands. Everyone HISTORY analysts BILL KRISTOL, DAVID BROOKS and JONATHAN ALTER discuss knows the wording of the Declaration; so why does this one matter? the key issues and challenges facing the candidates as America chooses a June 1863: in the midst of the Civil War, Lincoln writes a seemingly leader for the next four years. routine letter to one of his generals, but only the original manuscript reveals a painful story about Lincoln’s emotional state. Join METROPOLITAN CLUB Professor JAMES BASKER as he explores important documents 1 East 60th Street in New York City 10:15 AM Members choose one of the following sessions: from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, each of which tells a back-story that you won’t find in history books. The War of 1812: Two Centuries Later FRIDAY, APRIL 13 The American Revolution was a fight for independence. The Civil War BLACK TIE was a fight to preserve the Union forged in the fires of that Revolution. 11:15 AM But the oft-neglected War of 1812 was a crucial fight that redefined North in the Great Hall Is America In Decline? 6:00 PM COCKTAILS America and cemented the legitimacy of a new nation. Award-winning historians GORDON WOOD, ALAN TAYLOR and author IAN TOLL In the late 20th century, the collapse of the Soviet Union and an unprec- 7:00 PM DINNER in the West Lounge probe a story brimming with tensions over borders, race and the legacy edented economic boom propelled America to the zenith of its power. of the Revolution. Now, as the country struggles through recession and contends with PRESENTATION of the 2012 New-York Historical Society emerging powers such as China, Professors PA UL KENNEDY and American History Book Prize honoring the author of this year’s BEVERLY GAGE are joined by C ARMEN REINHART to consider: Is the best book in the field of American history or biography. United States’ place as the world’s dominant nation in question? Can America rally back or is this the beginning of a serious decline? George Kennan REMARKS Roger Hertog, Chairman of the Board of Trustees George F. Kennan was an eminent diplomat whose writings underpinned the containment strategy that defined U.S. policy toward the Soviet Union 12:30 PM Luncheon and Closing Session for 40 years. Join distinguished historian author JOHN LEWIS GADDIS, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets SATURDAY, APRIL 14 NICHOLAS THOMPSON and Peabody Award-winning reporter BUSINESS ATTIRE KATI MARTON as they explore the lasting impact of George Kennan on Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Is it ethical American foreign policy. to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? In this 8:30 AM BREAKFAST AND OPENING SESSION in the President’s Ballroom talk, Professor MICHAEL SANDEL takes on some of the biggest ethical questions of our time and asks us to consider: Isn’t there something wrong 10:15 AM-12:15 PM SPEAKER SESSIONS with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don’t belong? 12:30 PM LUNCHEON AND CLOSING SESSION in the President’s Ballroom Invitation.indd 1 1/25/12 2:05 PM 2012 CHAIRMAn’s CounCIL SPEAKERS HONORARY CO-CHAIRS CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY JONATHAN ALTER KATI MARTON Akhil Reed Amar Columnist, Author and Joyce Appleby Bloomberg View Human Rights Activist Debby Applegate Sven Beckert Thomas Bender David Blight JAMES BASKER CARMEN REINHART Douglas Brinkley SEVENTH ANNUAL President, Dennis Weatherstone Ric Burns Gilder Lehrman Institute Senior Fellow, David Cannadine of American History Peterson Institute Robert A. Caro for International Economics Ron Chernow WEEKEND Andrew Delbanco with DAVID BROOKS MICHAEL J. SANDEL Eric Foner Columnist, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Henry Louis Gates, Jr. HISTORY The New York Times Professor of Government, Doris Kearns Goodwin Harvard University John Steele Gordon Harold Holzer Daniel Walker Howe JOHN LEWIS GADDIS ALAN TAYLOR Kenneth T. Jackson Robert A. Lovett Professor of History, Edward P. Jones Professor of History, University of California David Kennedy Yale University at Davis Jill Lepore Pauline Maier Steven Mintz BEVERLY GAGE NICHOLAS THOMPSON David Nasaw Associate Professor Senior Editor, Andrew Roberts of History, The New Yorker Cokie Roberts Yale University Simon Schama Stacy Schiff Benno C. Schmidt PAUL KENNEDY IAN TOLL J. Richardson Dilworth Russell Shorto FRIDAY, APRIL 13 Author Peter Silver Professor of History, Jean Edward Smith SATURDAY, APRIL 14 Yale University . Lesley Stahl C 2012 N I Robert A.M. Stern Richard Sylla BILL KRISTOL GORDON S. WOOD Sean Wilentz METROPOLITAN CLUB Editor, Professor of History Emeritus, 1 East 60th Street in New York City The Weekly Standard Brown University Jay Winik POULIN + MORRIS N: G Gordon Wood DESI Cover Image: Marie-François-Régis Gignoux, Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (detail), ca. 1843. Oil on canvas. New-York Historical Society, Gift of an Anonymous Donor, X.21 Invitation.indd 2 1/25/12 2:05 PM PROGRAM You are cordially invited to join the SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2012 CHAIRMAN’S COUNCIL OF THE NEW-YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY and attend the 8:30 AM Breakfast and Opening Session SEVENTH ANNUAL 9:00 AM Election 2012 Why Documents Matter WEEKEND Every presidential campaign is a fight for America’s future and the 2012 August 1776: a printer in South Carolina publishes and signs a copy election promises to be just as dramatic, contentious and emotional of The Declaration of Independence to spread the news of American with as we have come to expect from our national politics. Veteran political independence through the South Carolina hinterlands. Everyone HISTORY analysts BILL KRISTOL, DAVID BROOKS and JONATHAN ALTER discuss knows the wording of the Declaration; so why does this one matter? the key issues and challenges facing the candidates as America chooses a June 1863: in the midst of the Civil War, Lincoln writes a seemingly leader for the next four years. routine letter to one of his generals, but only the original manuscript reveals a painful story about Lincoln’s emotional state. Join METROPOLITAN CLUB Professor JAMES BASKER as he explores important documents 1 East 60th Street in New York City 10:15 AM Members choose one of the following sessions: from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, each of which tells a back-story that you won’t find in history books. The War of 1812: Two Centuries Later FRIDAY, APRIL 13 The American Revolution was a fight for independence. The Civil War BLACK TIE was a fight to preserve the Union forged in the fires of that Revolution. 11:15 AM But the oft-neglected War of 1812 was a crucial fight that redefined North in the Great Hall Is America In Decline? 6:00 PM COCKTAILS America and cemented the legitimacy of a new nation. Award-winning historians GORDON WOOD, ALAN TAYLOR and author IAN TOLL In the late 20th century, the collapse of the Soviet Union and an unprec- 7:00 PM DINNER in the West Lounge probe a story brimming with tensions over borders, race and the legacy edented economic boom propelled America to the zenith of its power.
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