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Welcome to atlanta History Center. Im claire haley, president of democracy initiatives and author talks here for the History Center. Im sitting here tonight with three great scholars and very excited to have here atlanta history. Tonight were joined by Fitzhugh Brundage jon sensback and scott nelson. They are just three of many contributors to this new volume, a new history of the south. It just came a couple of weeks ago. So were very excited to be here in discussion with them tonight. And each...

Someone in the audience like to recognize. We have Vice President mrs. Pence, his daughter, charlotte and her beautiful baby daughter with us today. Now, here at the reagan library, we obviously talk a lot about the accomplishments and legacy of president Ronald Reagan as well as our nations former first lady, nancy, since being the first lady of the United States, with a lot of attention and a lot of responsible. But what about the role of second lady . While this position may not always receiv...

Someone in the audience like to recognize. We have Vice President mrs. Pence, his daughter, charlotte and her beautiful baby daughter with us today. Now, here at the reagan library, we obviously talk a lot about the accomplishments and legacy of president Ronald Reagan as well as our nations former first lady, nancy, since being the first lady of the United States, with a lot of attention and a lot of responsible. But what about the role of second lady . While this position may not always receiv...

My name is is joe vogel. Im a state delegate here representing, the great city of gaithersburg. And it is my pleasure to introduce all of you to the city of gaithersburg. I am so thrilled this morning to be introducing ari shapiro as he his book, the best stranger in the world stories from a life spent listening. When i first saw that this book would be presented at the book festival and before i was given the honor of introducing the session, i took note of the book i screenshotted the cover of...

Welcome thomas swick to discuss his book falling place a story of love poland the making of a travel writer. Falling into place is the personal story of young mans discovery of the world. In his development, a travel writer. It is also a love story as he and hanya overcome cultural differences. Communist bureaucracy, unhealthy separations. Intertwined with both is the story of revolution that altered history with the worlds attention. Once again turned to Eastern Europe, a cold war reality. This...

Wells here with us as our speaker. Adam wells is a naturalist, conservation consultant, writer and filmmaker whose work has appeared in the guardian, the Atlantic Yale environment, 360 time magazine, and numerous other publications. Hes a recipient of the middlebury fellowship in environmental journalism and to compliment his writing and reporting. Hes an avid naturalist and birder while he currently lives cape town, south africa, with his wife and their triplet daughters. Hes lived in cities an...

Democracy initiatives and author talks here for the History Center. Im sitting here tonight with three great scholars and very excited to have here atlanta history. Tonight were joined by Fitzhugh Brundage jon sensback and scott nelson. They are just three of many contributors to this new volume, a new history of the south. It just came a couple of weeks ago. So were very excited to be here in discussion with them tonight. And each are professors of history. Each have different of expertise. We ...

Susan u. S. Representative smith has a new book that is coming out with a pretty stark title. Lost and broken rep. Smith well, i like the subtitle, my journey back from chronic pain and crippling anxiety. The title isnt the most optimistic, but there is a path back. Susan what is the story you tell . Rep. Smith basically, i went through a bout of anxiety and chronic pain. There were lifelong aspects of it. This is stuff that i was feeling when i was a kid. High stress, i had anxiety then, and ac...

Part of a better america. A year and a half into this presidency, president reagan stood in westminster palace and declared before British Parliament and the world that freedom and democracy will leave marxism and leninism. The ash heap of history. In that speech, president reagan didnt just lay out his Foreign Policy. He called for america to support, a Global Campaign for democracy. It was a turning point in the cold war. It was turning point in history. It is so significant and central to the...

We were thrilled to have dan sinykin with us for a discussion of big fiction how changed the Publishing Industry and American Literature dan santat is an assistant professor of english at Emory University with a courtesy appointment in, quantitative theory and methods. Hes the author of American Literature and the long downturn neoliberal apocalypse and his writing has appeared in the new york times. The washington, the los angeles review of books, the rumpus and other publications joining dan i...