In the main reading room. It lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. That is the way it should be, but scholars are really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the Madison Building is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts collection is, and there are 60 million items. This is from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jeff Flannery, an old friend of the society in particular friend of scholars who work in American History, like my former colleagues and i. For 40 years, put together a document history project, and it brought us to jeff virtually every week. He and his staff helped us produce those volumes. Jeff is the head of the reference and services section. He has been in the management for 31 years, and that is all i will say. I know you are mu
Legally united family, could be the roe v wade of same sex marriage. When we started this a year ago, we certainly didnt think it would go to the Supreme Court, it would pray out way before us. Adam may on their First National interview on what could change the picture of marriage in america. And a sorority of sorrow. Standing together with strain. Were not going to take it anymore. We are going to stand for what is right. Lives matters and my sons life mattered. They lost their sons to the officers they counted on to protect their communities. Now the demands of the Justice League to keep their numbers from growing about. Good evening, thanks for joining us, im joie chen. With washington still reeling from the blockbuster torture disclosures that put the cia squarely in the hot seat over its tactics with terror suspects there is also expanding concern about americas other efforts in its fight against terror. We begin this hour with a look at Guantanamo Bay and the detainees still lan
Roe v wade of same sex marriage. When we started this a year ago, we certainly didnt think it would go to the Supreme Court, it would pray out way before us. Adam may on their First National interview on what could change the picture of marriage in america. And a sorority of sorrow. Standing together with strain. Were not going to take it anymore. We are going to stand for what is right. Lives matters and my sons life mattered. They lost their sons to the officers they counted on to protect their communities. Now the demands of the Justice League to keep their numbers from growing about. Good evening, thanks for joining us, im joie chen. With washington still reeling from the blockbuster torture disclosures that put the cia squarely in the hot seat over its tactics with terror suspects there is also expanding concern about americas other efforts in its fight against terror. We begin this hour with a look at Guantanamo Bay and the detainees still lan quishin languishing in u. S. Custody
Please keep the spirit of lit fest going all year long with a subscription. This year we are also introducing a new digital bookstore. Please take one of our promo cards for information about the app and axis the special book deals. Before they can todays program please file ensure cell phones. You return your camera flash off. We will allow you to take pictures. You can post those pictures online using hashtag printers row. Gives me great pleasure to introduce to you guys are moderate todays conversation, eric banks. Mr. Banks. Thank you. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody. Its good to see you here this morning and its my pleasure to welcome today Monique Brinson demery, the author of the amazing book, finding the dragon lady the mystery of vietnams madame nhu, which has recently been published by Public Affairs books. She holds a masters degree from harvard university, and when she made contact with madame nhu who was the unofficial first lady of the south east government in 2005
That the germans i find out if it had even 24 hours of warning that this invasion force is coming to normandy rather than some other point on the french coast. It couldve been, probably wouldve been. To the anxiety level is unbelievable when isenhour has to postpone it, makes the decision to postpone it. So june 6th is the day we celebrate as dday. Number of troops, number of deaths . Well, there are five divisions ago when over the beaches basically. Two american in three british and canadian. And then there are three airborne divisions. Altogether you talk about a couple hundred thousand troops going in on june 6. Most of the deaths the worst beach was omaha, where one of the two american beaches. There were several thousand deaths there. There had been concerned that the number of deaths could run in the tens of thousands and this did not happen. By no means were the casualties light, but they were less than anticipated at utah beach, which was the furthest right invasion. The briti