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Our final speaker this morning is brian dirck. Brian is a professor of history at Anderson University in indiana. He is the author of numerous books on Abraham Lincoln including lincoln and davis, imagining america, lincoln the lawyer, lincoln and the constitution, Abraham Lincoln and White America and lincoln and indiana. His subjects probed some of the most interesting and relevant topics in lincolns life and he has won awards for his work including one from the new york civil war roundtable. ...

Good evening. Welcome to mount vernon. My name is kevin butterfield, director of the fred w Swift National library. It is my pleasure to welcome you back here. And the Ford Motor Company each month sponsors a free book talk like this one. An opportunity for the community to come and learn from the greatest historians in the field. Thank you for being here tonight. We are thrilled to have you. We will hear a brief hesitation from susan swain, copresident and chief executive officer of cspan. She ...

Michael good evening and welcome. My name is michael bishop. The result of a collaboration between our society and the George Washington university, the library is the First Research facility in the Nations Capital devoted to the study of winston churchill. Here students have access to a vast range of primary and secondary materials and interactive touchscreen exhibits and soon displays of original manuscripts and artifacts. And let me take this opportunity to encourage you to join the National ...

Our moderators, jim broudy and margery eagan. At evening and welcome to our audience here at wgbh and those watching at home for the first debate in the senate race being closely watched, not just here but all across the country. With the incumbent serving about the house of the senate the challenges for seven years under his belt and the house [inaudible] they will weigh their differences and their worldviews and ask for the rules there are no rules. The opening statements, no closings, no time...

Reporter another part of the lastminute Push Campaign ads. By super tuesday the candidates will have spent more than 1bii. Thats a record so early in the race. Bloomberg alone accounts for half that spending. You may soon see more ads for elizabeth warren, thanks to a new superpac spending 12 million on her behalf across the country. Shes long distanced herself from such groups, but now admits she needs to level the Playing Field and is calling on all superpacs to release the names of their secr...

Independent, trump official refuses to say that Coronavirus Vaccine would be affordable to all. What did you hear from the secretary . The secretary said in no Uncertain Terms that he could not ensure that the coronavirus that the vaccine would be affordable although they would work to make it happen, because we had to rely on the private sector. Hes talking about big pharma. And understand, i made the point that the taxpayers have really done the research, the bulk of the money has been from ev...

I was able to attend medical school because of my legal status. How would you galvanize congress so that they can pass relief and supportive legislation for refugees and undocumented immigrants . I became an advocate for people experiencing homeless 20 years ago when my brother first became homeless due to mental illness. Every night over a half Million People are without a home. I want to know what youre going to do to address this crisis immediately, partnering with state and local government....

Douglass, Abraham Lincoln and emancipation. I would like to thank our great trustee and benefactor, Arnold Bernard schwartz, for his generosity and making this event and many of our programs possible. [applause] i would also like to recognize and thank one of our trustees who has joined us today, david blight. I want to say how proud we are to count david among our trustees at New York Historical. I want to recognize laura washington and mercedes franklin, who are cochairs of our Frederick Dougl...

Political correctness thats crippling our culture and shutting down serious debate. Hes 50 fax will spark. The conversations that will begin to finally undo decades of damage from disinformation and liberal mythmaking. Gi can you elaborate . Sure. Starting this book, i realized that for decades, there have been policies that have just not worked, whether it be in the areas of education or immigration or hot contemporary political things about Climate Change, policies put in place that has not ac...

That we right now have 42 freshman in the Democratic Caucus who were in some of the toughest districts anywhere in the country who have proven themselves to understand what is important back home. Before we started airing this we talked about something i do at home called supermarket saturday. You can multiply that by all of these freshmen who go home and do things, whether they call it supermarket saturday, they are using their two ears and one mouth proportionately. The people want health care...