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The tv this weekend and every weekend on cspan2. Good evening everyone. Thank you for being here with us and im certain this will be a riveting conversation and easier to say that word than it is to spell it because i couldnt figure out to spell it. And president of the National Museum i welcome you here this evening for this book talk on ms. Alice Marie Johnsons book. I hope you had an opportunity to get it and if not, i believe we are selling it and she will be doing a book signing a couple th...

Now, you remember last time or last week, anyway, we put a graph up here showing the result you probably get if you went around and asked everybody in the colonies at 25year intervals do you want to be independent of britain . And if you remember the graph shot up kind of like like this. Over the years. In other words, as the colonies move along from jamestown to 1776, more and more people, as time passes, decide that they are able to handle this on their own. They dont need to be ruled from wes...

Its where well be signing books. We were lucky enough, to have the journalist and author and cohost of the podcast. And he will be doing a brief q a with our author before eric will do a reading and then well open it up for questions. So about our author he was the director and researcher at the National Intelligence of science and path algae for the u. S. Intelligence community. Before joining nfa he is executive Vice President of disney imaginary. A phd neuroscientist. In an inventor with over...

15 years ago in is your mike on . There we go. Thank you. Theres a switch on the mikes. 15 years ago in a journal of American History article, john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted,lin religions continue importance contains analysis. In political history religion has retained in butlers e voktive term, a jack in the box. Left to pop up occasionally rather than systematically. Today our round table will address how religion matte...

In california on a hot afternoon in pasadena for our monthly Public Lecture series. Im preston dikes. 50 years ago three human beings set out on a journey across a quarter million miles of space to the moon. Two of them set down in a fragile Landing Craft on the lunar surface, and one of them stepped into history uttering a phrase we all know by heart. For that one human being to make that one small step took the focussed efforts of hundreds of thousands of people over the course of a decade. An...

Celebrations of humanitys highest achievement, the apollo 11 moon landing. Were deeply honored to have Vice President pence with us this morning as we unveil Neil Armstrongs recently conserved apollo 11 ft skpas space suit. Also with us, jim brydenstine, who leads nasas organization whose achievements we celebrate. Im so happy that Rick Armstrong could join us to represent the family along with his family of the inspiring American Hero who took humanitys first steps on the moon. Thank you for be...

Many of you probably dont think of late Abraham Lincoln in terms of american or indigenous history. Abraham lincoln had a lot on his plate. When he was president , the civil war and that dominated most of his attention. Underneath the surface, important events involving American Indians, events that one might argue make Abraham Lincoln a bit more of a problematic figure than he ordinarily was. What we may call the dakota war of 1862 occurred. It was drenched in blood as impoverished and hungry d...

Today. We are shifting the direction of our course today. We are moving away from catholics and in particular the jesuits. We spent a lot of time talking about the jesuits in this course. We are going to be moving toward the protestants. We will be looking at some of the missionary efforts in the work they did. In particular today, we are looking at their work in early new england. One thing i want you to think about for seminar is this really critical question. You have basically done a whole c...

Includes author interviews with Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg on her book, my own words. The heartbeat of wounded knee. Sharon robinson talks about her book, child of the dream. Rick atkinson author of the british are coming and Thomas Malone founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book, super mines. The National Book festival Live Saturday august 31 at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on the tv on cspan2. In a short time ago President Trump sent out several tweets about c...

One of the things thats important is i get to the point that i can change the premise that thats a valid position. Its not my position, its a position that i think is terrible in many ways but i can see that you could be a moral , decent person and think that. And if you cant do that, you cant relate to anybody who doesnt agree with you what would be thequestion mister brookhiser you would ask your wife on that issue. Let me inject a brief note of gloom. Williamseward was apparently a lovely man...