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Battle of tal afar. Continuing on to serve in afghanistan afghanistan. And now h. R. , im going to butcher your title. So ill let you give it to me directly. Its Deputy Commander general for training and doctrine command for futures. And then the clunky long title is the Army Capabilities integration center. Im glad i didnt try to memorize that. Arcic. But what h. R. Is really that quite extraordinary combination of thinker and great military leader. There arent that many in our history. There a...

When did the u. S. Slave trade start and how did it start . The u. S. Was involved in the slave trade from the moment that we began as a colony of britain and indeed one of the interesting things about u. S. History is that in the Constitutional Convention there was a compromise between the states that had slaves in the states that didnt. The u. S. Constitution said the federal congress couldnt take any action against the slave trade until 1808. The u. S. The first moment it could present jeffer...

Efforts. And to say, willie, that Mitch Mcconnell carries his words carefully is an understatement, he wanted to send a message to the president and the republican senate. Thats the equivalent of him to say president elect, which he hasnt been able to bring himself to say. Lets stop and pause and say were about a month away from election day, and its news that the Senate Majority leader made an innuendo and hinted at the fact that the duly elected president of the United States is the next presi...

It up from atlanta. It is a great feel and repurchase will support david and Atlanta History Centers ability to do this programming. David and i talked tonight, please submit her questions into the queue and day. Well get as many of those as we possibly can in the event time we have with us tonight. We briefly introduced David Hackett fisher. He needs very little introduction with our audience. David Hackett Fischer is a University Professor and professor of history and narrative at Brandeis Uni...

Welcome to Atlanta History Centers virtual author talks series. I am the Vice President of Public Relations and programs rated it is my honor to record to welcome you to tonights event featuring the story of David Hackett fischer. He just came out with a new book last week. The book is african founders how enslaved people expanded american ideals close vote. If you have not gotten your copy of the book, it is available in the store. We will ship it to you if you live in the u. S. Or you can pick...

Centers virtual author talks series. I am the Vice President of Public Relations and programs rated it is my honor to record to welcome you to tonights event featuring the story of David Hackett fischer. He just came out with a new book last week. The book is african founders how enslaved people expanded american ideals close vote. If you have not gotten your copy of the book, it is available in the store. We will ship it to you if you live in the u. S. Or you can pick it up from atlanta. It is ...

We will ship it to you if you live in the u. S. Or you can pick it up from atlanta. It is a great feel and repurchase will support david and Atlanta History Centers ability to do this programming. David and i talked tonight, please submit her questions into the queue and day. Well get as many of those as we possibly can in the event time we have with us tonight. We briefly introduced David Hackett fisher. He needs very little introduction with our audience. David Hackett Fischer is a University ...

Elms around the cuban missile crisis, october, 1962. All of us wanted to have a good book ready for the fall of 2012. And many every us in the Historical Community as well as certainly at the library knew that there were these tremendously rich tapes, only a small percentage of which had actually been heard, and that it would be a service to the Historical Community and to all americans to get the tapes out to the listening public. So the library made the tapes available, but they need add histo...

All of us wanted to have a good book ready for the fall of 2012. And many of us in the Historical Community as well as certainly at the library knew that there were these tremendously rich tapes, only a small percentage of which had actually been heard, and that it would be a service to the Historical Community and to all americans to get the tapes out to the listening public. So the library made the tapes available, but they need add historian to write an introduction and annotate, and so thats...

It was a rapidly evolving historical task. I listened to a lot of these tapes at night and on weekend. I got very immersed in the world of listening. There were good days and bad days. When i started, a lot of it was inaudible to me. The quality of the meeting tapes is not always that good, especially in the cabinet room, a pretty big room where these primitive mics didnt pick up the sounds that well. Often the distance of the room, it might not sound very loud at all, someone close would sound ...