nh humanities to go: Teddy roosevelt's nobel peace prize
"Theodore Roosevelt’s Nobel Peace Prize: New Hampshire & the Portsmouth Peace Treaty" NH Humanities Council Lecture by Charles B. Doleac, moderator Portsmouth Peace Treaty Forum
The talk, "Teddy Roosevelt's Nobel Prize: New Hampshire & the Portsmouth Peace Treaty" offered insight into why Roosevelt’s trust in Portsmouth to be the 1905 peace-making city was well founded. Negotiations there between the Russians and Japanese ended “World War Zero” and led to a Nobel Peace Prize for the President – America’s first.
When presented to the Stratham Historical Society, with an illustrated talk and exhibit panels as an engaging introduction to the subject, one attendee noted, "I've lived in this area for nearly 90 years and had heard about the Portsmouth Peace Treaty. This is the first time I finally understood why it was so important!"
The Library of Congress cites the Portsmouth Peace Treaty website for providing a unique, accessible perspective on the topic thanks to the research done locally to explain the community’s role in the history. The point of this NH Humanities Council lecture is to draw out new local information about how different New Hampshire citizens and community groups were involved in the Treaty proceedings of 1905. In previous lectures, Mr. Doleac has presented new research on:
The talk, "Teddy Roosevelt's Nobel Prize: New Hampshire & the Portsmouth Peace Treaty" offered insight into why Roosevelt’s trust in Portsmouth to be the 1905 peace-making city was well founded. Negotiations there between the Russians and Japanese ended “World War Zero” and led to a Nobel Peace Prize for the President – America’s first.
When presented to the Stratham Historical Society, with an illustrated talk and exhibit panels as an engaging introduction to the subject, one attendee noted, "I've lived in this area for nearly 90 years and had heard about the Portsmouth Peace Treaty. This is the first time I finally understood why it was so important!"
The Library of Congress cites the Portsmouth Peace Treaty website for providing a unique, accessible perspective on the topic thanks to the research done locally to explain the community’s role in the history. The point of this NH Humanities Council lecture is to draw out new local information about how different New Hampshire citizens and community groups were involved in the Treaty proceedings of 1905. In previous lectures, Mr. Doleac has presented new research on:
- Lancaster, NH and native son Henry Willard Denison, representative of the Japanese Foreign Ministry from 1870 to 1914, who accompanied the Japanese delegation to Portsmouth for the Treaty negotiations and then worked with his Russian counterpart DeMartens to prepare the formal language of the conference protocols for signature on September 5, 1905. (Weeks Memorial Library, 2009)
- Dublin, NH and the Lindon-Smiths who hosted Baron Kitaro Kaneko immediately after the Treaty signing. Kaneko befriended the Smiths in Japan after an introduction by mutual acquaintance, President Theodore Roosevelt.
- Manchester, NH: the visit by members of the Japanese delegation to the Amoskeag Mills and lunch at the Derryfield Club as guests of prominent Manchester businessmen. (World Affairs Council of NH, Manchester 2009)
- Keene, NH, (Congregation of Ahavas Achim), the Russian-Jewish émigrés who escaped conscription in the Czar’s army by coming to America. Russian Jewish shopkeepers in Portsmouth and financier Joseph Schiff who visited Portsmouth tried to persuade Russian plenipotentiary Sergius Witte to convince the Czar to end the pogroms that had driven so many Russian Jews out of their homeland. (2009)
- Portsmouth, NH: Presentation at the Portsmouth Historical Society explained how the Russian and Japanese delegations, the US Navy and the people of New Hampshire, as the official hosts, figured in the negotiations by detailing the key sites of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty Trail: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the Navy and the civilian workforce; Wentworth By the Sea Hotel, The Rockingham and Portsmouth’s Judge Calvin Page; The Music Hall, publisher Hartford and Portsmouth postmaster Bartlett; The churches of Portsmouth and the YMCA; Green Acre School in Eliot and Sarah Farmer; Temple Israel and the 1905 Jewish community; Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion and the Carey family. (2009)