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Website at archives foundation. Org before we began, i want to make sure that everyone knows our distinguished speaker will be taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know but im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out to a shot out later on. I see a lot of ...

Taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know what im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. We are going to have a blast. Duke are you with us out there, in a secure occasion . Duke i...

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. It is an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. I am Jason Reynolds coming to you live from washington dc go this is overnight but there is so much going on in the world this is our night and it is a big deal. It is so much of a big deal i woke up this morning anxious and nervous as usual. I always, mother and i am anxious. It is 7 00 oclock in the morning and she says oh no i said i am feeling anxious about tonight have to hope the National ...

So little perspective on this moment, its quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and of course also around the world have that this is an extraordinary unusual time something we are the time out of time, will be curiosity in the future people will look back and wonder about that very wonderment i think its an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any period in history . Jill lepore as a historian im interested in an...

You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historia...

Give a warm welcome to the stage. [applause]. I hope you are having as much fun as i am at this festival. [applause]. I think of students in college a few of you were in college a few years ago as the best thing to do is to take the teacher not the course and here i think of things to take these incredible authors and be in a room with them. Whatever theyre talking about. The only problem is there is someone in every room. That you want to be with. I think you heard from them all at one point or...

An exact number of essential employees, hard to come by. 49one estimate tomorrow million to 62 million workers. That is an estimate from the Brookings Institution that relied on department of Homeland Security designations of essential. About 7 million employees at Grocery Stores, pharmacies, and bigbox stores. When it comes specifically to the state of california, the Public Policy institute of california estimates that in a typical year, roughly one third to one half of californias labor force...

The secret diary of mary thorpe, 2017s gender and the great war, and 2017s world war i a short history. That really is a spectacular book. I consistently get asked questions if theres a short book, great for teaching at an introductory point. If youd have not seen proctors short history on world war i, that is a nice entry point. Also clearly, she was very busy in 2017. [laughter] she is presently working on a study of American Humanitarian aid in the u. S. From 1914 to 1924, which you will be h...

Modern european and world history. A native of kansas city, missouri, proctor holds degrees in journalism and history from the university of missouri and a phd from rutgers university. Thet publications include secret diary of mary thorpe, 2017s gender and the great war, and 2017s world war i a short history. Book. S a spectacular i consistently get asked questions if theres a short brooke book great for teaching at an introductory point. If you have not seen her short history on world war i, th...

Devastated areas and Cultural Properties as well. I will talk about three different examples today it is food aid and its physical reconstruction and the third is cultural reconstruction. This outpouring of u. S. Relief and Development Helped provide a measure of stability, it created a president for what happened in world war ii so i can talk about many of the personnel involved world war one go to be heavily involved with the u. S. And the United Nations development aid. It also forged the con...