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Instincts for some of the reactions. So i loved 42 because chad was a strong actor and understood Jackie Robinson and showed him as a powerful, strong man, who was on a mission. Host Sharon Robinson is our guest, the fir call from laura. Caller hi. Thank you so much. Im thrilled be able to talk to you. And heres my question. Youre talking about the 63 march. I was 16 in 1959 and went on the ought march it grated schools then and im degree to know if you know anything about that because your dad ...

Many of you probably dont think of late Abraham Lincoln in terms of american or indigenous history. Abraham lincoln had a lot on his plate. When he was president , the civil war and that dominated most of his attention. Underneath the surface, important events involving American Indians, events that one might argue make Abraham Lincoln a bit more of a problematic figure than he ordinarily was. What we may call the dakota war of 1862 occurred. It was drenched in blood as impoverished and hungry d...

Today. We are shifting the direction of our course today. We are moving away from catholics and in particular the jesuits. We spent a lot of time talking about the jesuits in this course. We are going to be moving toward the protestants. We will be looking at some of the missionary efforts in the work they did. In particular today, we are looking at their work in early new england. One thing i want you to think about for seminar is this really critical question. You have basically done a whole c...

Includes author interviews with Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg on her book, my own words. The heartbeat of wounded knee. Sharon robinson talks about her book, child of the dream. Rick atkinson author of the british are coming and Thomas Malone founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book, super mines. The National Book festival Live Saturday august 31 at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on the tv on cspan2. In a short time ago President Trump sent out several tweets about c...

We are back live at the National Book festival. Were pleased to have join us now on our book tv set professor Thomas Malone of mit. Heres his most recent book. It is called super minds, the surprising power of people and computers, thinking together. Before we get into the topic of the book, professor, what is it that you do at mit . Im a professor in the sloan school of management and director of the mit center for collective intelligence. Pleasure to be a here. What kind of Management Training...

We hear about local tribes commercial interactions with Spanish Missions and fur traders and the items these groups exchanged, including livestock fabric and fur. This is an hour and 15 minutes. All right, todays lecture is going to pull together some of the topics that weve been exploring throughout the semester. The spanish colonization of north america, contributions of native american societies to development of the various colonies, manifest destiny and the american conquest of northern mex...

Around the time of the inauguration of 2001, whether or not there was a National Book festival comparable to the one she had started in texas. The texas book is full. He said there isnt yet there will be. So we came up with the idea of how to put together a National Book festival, the idea was to put it into a normal, intense. It turned out that getting sponsorships was more difficult than they had thought it would be. So he asked me if i would get involved. I told him i would do so. I began to ...

Refugee but my parents were refugees. Theres a fracturing of the share experience. Me life was different in the United States, the life was different in canada, my sisters life is different in england. Did all right relatively speaking but that vastly overlambingers and yep oliving together in the same language and the same cultural context, the same as it were social abilities, we share that experience, unity of time and place and experience that we shared, and then gets fractured and get bren ...

Year scholars, it is honor for me to serve as the mc for this program tonight. Our guest this evening is dr. James nolan, 1859 professor at williams college. He is author of several books, one what they saw in america, alexis detotfil, chester ton. I especially look forward to this discussion as dr. Nolans insights will help us wrap up the year long study on American Political Culture inspired by totevilles america, uc california days and degrees from university of virginia. His Research Fall in...

With the germination and courage with perseverance, programming was designed by her panelist tonight so we could tell the whole story of our community. Blending social history with public history to tell the africanamerican story had never been done before. And quite literally they were making history. This is the first of three panelist discussions that we will have this year. I would welcome you to come back on july 5 that focuses on africanamerican stories and on october 18 you will focus on ...