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History, i have been asked to remind everyone that youre more than welcome to take photographs to social media. This is the conversation of library in Congress Panel and sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and the southern mississippi friends of the library. Mississippi is fortunate to have so strong a supporter of literature, music and arts as congressman greg harper, now in fifth term, harper shares the committee on House Administration and serves House Committee of energy and comm...

Life renaissance architect, diplomat, the lives of artists, defines the canon. The visionary, forming the entire history of the field of arts. Give us a sense. The rise and fall of adam and eve. How long would a book like that be with you . About six years ago. Along the way, how hard it is to write an accessible, deeply informed research. Pretty lengthy. What would you say the average is . I dont know. I dont know. We would be doing well for a couple years. Lets stop there. The new president of...

The move is by a pastor out of georgia but who was talking about that weve gotten so complacent in our churches that we, this is how he explains it. We go to the same place and time even though the last few times weve been going, the fish are not there but were going to do the same thing. Maybe we have to go to deeper waters to find the fish because the fish are moving. Its important for me not just as a christian but as a leader to figure out how to i findthe fish. And not expect for the fish t...

We would like to do today. I will begin with some questions and then make the floor available to you to ask and ponder, argue with them, whatever makes you happy. Okay. So tonight microphone. I will. [laughter] we are delighted to welcome two memoirs of reform to american skinheads Christian Picciolini. Christian is here to set light on likely path as the son of two hard working italian immigrants to becoming the leader of the chicago skinheads when he was still a teenager. After leaving the vio...

Good evening. Good evening. My name is christian, and executive director of the Shakespeare Theatre company. Thank you for joining us thank you. [applause] thank you so much for joining us or to nights bar dissociation shakespeare discussion. To nights discussion is shakespeare and the rules of war from athens to aleppo. Now, this point point i just want to remind everyone to please silence all of your Electronic Devices and to let you know that video and photography of this discussion is prohib...

Now is one called a geography of genius by eric weiner. Why is that important . As an example why is it that you have ancient athens and 21st century Silicon Valley . They were separated by not only thousands of miles but also thousands of years apart. So what is it that you have this innovation, creativity, in athens many years ago and now you look at Silicon Valley also and you have this innovation creativity. So it looks into what happens, what sparks, whats the catalyst in a resource not onl...

Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation and r Lewis Lehrman auditorium. Of course what those are joining us on our heritage. Org website on all of these occasions. For those inhouse we ask the courtesy to check our various mobile devices have been silenced or turned off as we prepare to begin and, of course, for those watching online you are welcome to send questions or comments at any time simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Leading our discussion this morning is david muhlhausen. D...

We are literally the largest Minority Group in america and one in every five people in our nation have a disability. The majority of people have a loved one with a disability is 12 and we are the only Minority Group that anyone can join at any time due to accident, illness or aging. Respectfully is very proud to be a member of the ccd, a group of more than 110 National Disability organizations who want a Better Future for people with disabilities. As we have seen recently, overall the Disability...

Learning more about the literary scene. Well take you inside orchard house, the harm were lisa mayall, wrote her famous work, little women. Here we are in concord, massachusetts on the lexus syndrome known as the battle row. Its where the redcoats marched into the northbridge on apri then. Eventually much, much later than that it becomes the home of Amos Bronson Alcott and his family. One of the daughters, louisa may alcott, in this house writes a book that really changes a lot of the way people...

Intricacies of what the relationship was and how did it move forward. Thomas jefferson was one of our founding fathers, and as an africanamerican his belief in either freeing sally and his relationship with slates at the time, so that is a book of particular interest to me. And if i have the time they never like to try to be a third book which deals with its called in the black, a history of africanamericans on wall street, which is our, i serve on a Financial Service committee and im from new y...