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Our birthday is a chance to talk about all that the library does, and one important part of that work is due wording the extraordinary special collections of the Brooklyn Center for history. These archives are the combined materials for the brooklyn public librarys special collections at those of the former Brooklyn Historical society, and they are literally the most comprehensive collection of brooklyn related materials in the world. So, we are celebrating these amazing collections in a 125th A...

Thank you everybody for tuning in tonight. Hello everyone. Thank you so much for joining us. Im marcia eli from the Brooklyn Public Librarys center for brooklyn history and the arts and culture team bpl presents. This year Brooklyn Public Library celebrates, its 125th anniversary. Our birthday is a chance to talk about all the library does and one important part of that work is stewarding the extraordinary special collections at the center for brooklyn history. These are archives are the combine...

And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Tavis there have been five epics where catastrophic events have wiped out life on earth. The fifth extinction was caused by an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. Elizabeth kolbert who covers the environment for the new yorker says were living in the middle of another mass extinction, this one, though, caused by human activity. Her tome is called the sixth extinction, an unnatural istory and the result of years of research....

He was definitely an engaging teacher and as you mentioned his experiments influence a lot of people including including you. [inaudible] this is a bit of a followon and im still trying to formulate what is probably a very elementary question but you talk about all the research you did and obviously he mixes in real historical characters with his primary fictional characte characters. Was he primarily using fiction to illuminate history and historical forces or using history to illuminate human ...

This month. Three or four books that i think particularly good. I wish i could take credit. And the Brilliant Communications director came up with this. No one is going to be interested in what i am reading. Surprisingly has become quite a bit. They like it. Interestingly, the kind of like to know what your thinking about. It is kind of refreshing. It actually reads a little class action. Thank you. It was fun. What are you reading this summer . Tell us what is on your Summer Reading list. Posta...

Or 70 years as an activist and her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. This is just under an hour. Cspan Dorothy Height, who got you to write a memoir . Guest so many people for a long time have been after me to write my story. But really, it was dr. Camille cosby who finally sat me down with some people and said, this is something that you really should do. And then my good friend, maya angelou, who has such a distinguished career, when i talked to her about it, she said to me, well she h...

Historians biennial meeting in baltimore. It is about an hour and a half. In the past two years, three feature films whose focus is american slavery and emancipation have been released to positive and often glowing reviews. All of them were profitable. Ned made 160i Million Dollars at the box office. Lincoln made 182 million. Made 56 a slave, million, but only cost 20 million to make. Urge hast of miniups provoked a lot of debate and discussion about depictions of slavery and freedom in film and...

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Civil war historians biennial meeting is about one hour and a half. In the past two years, three feature films whose focus is american slavery and emancipation have been released to positive and often glowing reviews. All of them were profitable. Django unchained made 160 Million Dollars at the box office. Lincoln made 182 million. 12 years a slave, made 56 million, but only cost 20 million to make. This sort of miniupsurge has provoked a lot of debate and discussion about depictions of slavery ...

Is always more that could be put in. Commandeers from the time you had to leave the department to get the book published how many years did this take . One year after i was disabled from the job and had a heart attack was the year i wrote the book it took 12 years to get the book published but an author writes with longevity in mind i had published several other books prior to this and i am always writing a new title all the time i have three books ready to go now and one book i wrote that many ...