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Ladies and gentlemen, good evening. I am the ambassador. My role tonight is just to host and nothing else. I am happy to have for another time in nine, ten months the Women Policy Group at the Croatian Embassy. Im very happy to have you here as frequently as possible, because these events are really very nice. I will say no more except we are happy also the embassies keep open in washington. [laughter] and while my pleasure and honor to have ms. Linda robinson whom i met at georgetown . We share...

Its really exciting. And be, of course, its a lot less stressful than writing about jerusalem. Host you also have another project coming out after that . Guest ah, the world. Host the history of the world. A biography . Guest yeah. Im going to do a history of the world after that. Ive been it was my publishers idea. And they said to me, like, would you do it . Its not going to be a long, in fact, its more of a literary book, more of a philosophical week. Its not going to have its not going to be...

Volunteers started to come into play also. By 1916 during the battle of the somme, the army was mostly volunteers with remnants of the professional and territorial divisions. This is the general, the chief architect of the battle of the somme. Here he is Walking Around his chateau. Every morning he would take a four minute walk around the chateau, precisely timed. Interesting man vilified by a lot of historians and then a rehabilitated by a lot of historians. My opinion of him is rather low but ...

This is a little under an hour. Thank you for coming out. Can you hear me okay . No. Do i turn up the volume here or elsewhere . Get friendlier with the mic. How is that . That friendlier . As far as pulling up your chair. It sounds like unpaid labor to me. So i dont know. Like unpa can weid turn off the light oron turn down the lights . Re ill just start. What im going to do is run yout through the first day of the go battle and talk a bit about it the first day of the battle of the somme and t...

This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a friday morning. Im Savannah Guthrie. Im willie geist in for matt along side Natalie Morales and dylan dreyer. Our lead story this morning, despite everything you saw there, Savannah Guthrie turns 29 years old. Happy birthday savannah, again. Thank you so much. Turned 29, oh, 13 years ago i think. 29 and holding. Natalie just mentioned im the oldest person sit...

Of opinion with how this war began . And a great observation that history county archives, and can you actually determine what the facts are based on available information or shall we always be disputing these issues . Theres not much to be discovered in the archives. A lot of german high command archives in the Second World War, the russians took some back to moscow, and have not been thoroughly explored yet. And elements within the soviet government knew what was going on and great and discove...

But british officials perceived to be in their interest. They might use it at the planters paid travel. Also if slaves were out. The expectation was made clear that if theres a slave revolt in trinidad they were supposed to help suppress the. They were supposed to catch runaways are not receive them into their communities. So its only in the 1830s the british will make a concerted effort, Parliament Passes law for the gradual emancipation through this conversation apprenticeship horrendously che...

Is long the river. They come to commemorate a massacre that took place here on may 14th, 1980, during the start of the el salvador ann civil war. There is a reenactment. About 600 people were gunned down that day trying to cross the river to honduras and reach safety. Rosa rivera lost both of her parents in the war. That must have been very difficult. To live with so many of your family killed like that. In 1992, with the military and leftist guerillas signed a peace accord, passed and amnesty l...

I took plenty of Maternity Leave but i feel like that is the kind of woman there can be space for and the fact that there are some who are happy, do not entirely live in portland, oregon is okay too. We are the only National Television network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books and throughout the fall we are marking 15 years of booktv on cspan2. Here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. Then at 8 p. M. Eastern, Deborah Solomon recounts the life of artist Norman Rockwell from h...

Affected the outcome of the war. Mr. Stoker is a strategy and policy professor at the Naval War College in monterrey, california. The Bryant Park Corporation, Oxford University press and the New York Historical society cohosted this 55minute event. Thank you so much, paul. Good evening, everyone. As paul mentioned, im alex kassl, manager of Public Programs at the New York Historical society, and its a pleasure to see so many familiar faces in the audience tonight and a great pleasure to introduc...