{"id":68791,"date":"2016-05-20T22:20:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T02:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=68791"},"modified":"2016-05-20T16:24:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T20:24:10","slug":"historian-tom-henry-unveils-presidential-campaigns-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=68791","title":{"rendered":"Historian Tom Henry unveils presidential campaigns then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?attachment_id=46728\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-46728\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-46728\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Library-books.jpg?resize=230%2C230\" alt=\"Library books\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Library-books.jpg?w=230&amp;ssl=1 230w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Library-books.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>As national party conventions loom and Election Day 2016 nears, historian Tom Henry returns to Oneida Public Library the first two <span data-term=\"goog_888843903\">Saturday<\/span> mornings in June to address in a timely two-part lecture the race for U.S. president, party conventions and the roles of Big Money and the media in politics this year as in the past.<\/p>\n<p>On <span data-term=\"goog_888843904\">Saturday, June 4<\/span>, at <span data-term=\"goog_888843905\">11 a.m.<\/span>, Henry will cover today\u2019s topsy-turvy presidential race, the roots of voter discontent, the influence of PACs and the battles that we can expect at the conventions and beyond. In Part 2 on <span data-term=\"goog_888843906\">Saturday, June 11<\/span>, at <span data-term=\"goog_888843907\">11:00 a.m.<\/span>, he will take us back to nasty and controversial presidential <!--more-->races of the past and their consequences for society, the law and governance.<\/p>\n<p>Henry, who is a retired social studies teacher and currently a very popular instructor in American history at Oasis Institute of Syracuse, has lectured at the OPL most recently on \u201cFive Forgotten Presidents,\u201d the U.S. at the outbreak of World War II and President James Buchanan\u2019s disastrous term in office that led to the Civil War. In 2011, he lectured on the Battle of Gettysburg and the Union\u2019s prisoner of war camp in Elmira during the OPL\u2019s series celebrating the Civil War sesquicentennial.<\/p>\n<p>At Oasis, Henry regularly conducts lecture series on many facets of U.S. history, including the Civil War, presidential histories, the Supreme Court and the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Both of Henry\u2019s lectures on presidential politics at the OPL are free and open to all. For\u00a0more information, stop by the OPL, 220 Broad St., check out the OPL\u2019s web site at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.midyorklib.org\/oneida%20or%20call%20315.363.3050\">www.midyorklib.org\/oneida or call 315.363.3050<\/a>\u00a0and ask for Tom Murray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As national party conventions loom and Election Day 2016 nears, historian Tom Henry returns to Oneida Public Library the first two Saturday mornings in June to address in a timely two-part lecture the race for U.S. president, party conventions and the roles of Big Money and the media in politics this year as in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22367,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-hTx","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Library-books.jpg?fit=230%2C230&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}