Potential retreat. American history tv. History bookshelves, the biography of influential conservative writer russell kirk. This was recorded at the 2016 Chicago Tribune book fest. [applause] good morning, everybody. I love the smell of books in the morning and its great to be around a bunch of friends who feel the same way. Its my pleasure to help kick fest. Days day of lit its my great pleasure to rzer, theradley j bi russell kirk famous american conservative. Bradley came over this morning from southcentral michigan, made the journey, and is here to talk about his book about russell kirk. One of the first questions for lots of people is who is russell kirk . The man undoubtedly cast a very large shadow over american political and intellectual thought in the latter half of the 20th century. It could be argued he still does. Yet, russell kirk is not a name that is much known these days or much invoked these days. Your book does many things but marvelousd serve as a bracing introductio
Encountered that night. Scared. How many times did they come talk to you . 30 plus. Two tantalizing clues, a hand a print. The subject had blood on their hand. And a trail on twitter. Incredibly powerful. You can almost see this happening in realtime. Could she help solve her own mystery . Shes fighting him off. It was so emotional. I wanted to jump out of my seat. Never in a million years would you expect Something Like that. On long island, the fancy cars and the elites of the hamptons is a blue collar beach town some call the poor mans paradise. But life was rich for these brothers and sisters in mastic, new york, filled with the love of a large tightknit family. All that was taken away one warm evening when evil rolled in with the summer tide. Their youngest sister was missing. We just want you to come home safely. And for better or worse, this family would go to extraordinary lengths to find her. Were going to scour those woods right now. We were our own investigators. Heres me an
Beginning to accord a rightful place to those men and women of the Windrush Generation. You look beautiful. How are you . It is, i believe, crucially important that we should truly see and hear these pioneers who stepped off the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Injune 1948, only a few months before i was born. And those who followed over the decades to recognise and celebrate the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to this country. Many served with distinction in the British Armed forces during the second world war, just as their fathers and grandfathers had in the first world war. Once in britain, they worked hard, offering their skills to rebuild a country during peacetime and seeking opportunities to forge a Better Future for themselves and their families. When they arrived on our shores with little more than what they were able to carry with them, few could hardly have imagined then how they and those that followed them would make such a pr
Beginning to accord a rightful place to those men and women of the Windrush Generation. You look beautiful. How are you . It is, i believe, crucially important that we should truly see and hear these pioneers who stepped off the Empire Windrush at Tilbury Injune 1948, only a few months before i was born. And those who followed over the decades to recognise and celebrate the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to this country. Many served with distinction in the British Armed forces during the second world war, just as their fathers and grandfathers had in the first world war. Once in britain, they worked hard, offering their skills to rebuild a country during peacetime and seeking opportunities to forge a Better Future for themselves and their families. When they arrived on our shores with little more than what they were able to carry with them, few could hardly have imagined then how they and those that followed them would make such a pr
Antisemitism in america between wwi ww ii. Welcome everyone its good to see everybody and we are going to start todays topic in antisemitism in america between wwi ww ii. In the last time that we discussed antisemitism, we focused on the years between the civil war and the end of the 19th century which you will remember was it. The historians called emergence of a full fledged antisemitism society so just for a second to refresh your memory, one of the events in the emergence of that antisemitism society was the exclusion of jew from hotels in public accommodation it. And being excluded from the grand union hotel and in saratogas and in 1877, and remember that we also look at the slides like this one where we see in this image which is from a magazine and its caption is the dream of the jews realize and you will see that we talked about how the sign of john smith, as w back in 1920, was b ten down and its a little hard to st the top but is said that is being replaced and ifook at caref