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Signed legislation creating the National Park service on august 20 5, 1916. To mark the centennial, American History tv is featuring National Park Service Sites throughout the country. We continue now with another step on the cspan city tour. I think everybody was just amazed by all of the it is not widely publicized. The park service does not advertise. People find out about this because they see articles or a feature like you are preparing. Colorado a typical scene. It is not what most people ...

Availableforsale outside today and they will all be signinggn copies of their work. You can find the schedule for when they will be available to sign in your program. I encourage you to visit with them. Thank you for doing this. This is wonderful and we are excited about it. Our moderator for the panel today is jerry is the author of Theodore Roosevelt in the assessment. Assassination. Thank you chris. Thank you all for choosing to come to the mississippi History Panel this afternoon. We are for...

Their works. You can find the schedule for a when theyll be available to sign in your program. And i encourage you al all to visit with him. Thank you for doing this. This is wonderful and were excited about it. Our moderator for the panel today is jerry healthridge, the distinguished author of Theodore Roosevelt and the assassin and the campaign of 1912 and the fantastic book high cotton. Thank you, chris. Thank you for choosing to come to the mississippi History Panel this afternoon. Were fort...

Bison in the monument. The elks club conspired to bring in a couple of elk. John got some money from the chamber of commerce to build some fences to contain these animals. And for many years, we had a bison herd. Now, the elk kind of took one look around and said were out of here. They went on south into the high country. But oddly enough, theyre coming back into the monument now. We see more and more elk sightings. The bison we removed in 1983 because they were confined to a really small area, ...

I wanted to write demand the impossible a radical manifesto, i am in the majority of public opinion. I am not a barricaded minority with some weird outlier ideas which i am in the majority with issues like war and peace, mass incarceration. I wanted to take it out of the frame given to us and make it in the form of a manifesto, this is what we are fighting for. I wanted to say, lets take one example. Healthcare. Obamacare or the way it has always been. I reject that. I want free healthcare for a...

Three titles that will be published in the fall. Host harold meyerson, in your upcoming book michael rose, the use of the word manifesto. It is an attempt to write clarity, all these issues we debate have been framed incorrectly or in a way that narrows the imaginative landscape. I wanted to write demand the impossible a radical manifesto, i am in the majority of public opinion. I am not a barricaded minority with some weird outlier ideas which i am in the majority with issues like war and peace...

Park. And rock creek this is one of the last vestiges of the rural past of washington, of itsll, the only one tight left. It was part of a way of life of arming and milling that happened in the early 1800s. The mill the owner of the fromwas a former quaker. Ennsylvania named isaac peirce he came to the Washington Area in the late 1790s and not a lot of land. Ultimately 160 acres along Rock Creek Park. There was an old mill here that he bought, and he built this mill in about 1820. A hold farm st...

Im standing in front of peirce mill and Rock Creek Park. This is one of the last vestiges of the rural past of washington, this mill is the only one of its type left. It was part of a way of life of farming and milling that happened in the early 1800s. The owner of the mill was a former quaker from pennsylvania named isaac peirce. He came to the Washington Area in the late 1790s and not a lot land. Ght a lot of ultimately 160 acres along Rock Creek Park. There was an old mill here that he bought...

The Newman Foundation at Harvard University established the annual j. Anthony lukas worrieds in 1998 and recently announces this years finalists for works in progressnonfiction writing and history. The first award is for unfinished books. The finalist include sasha eisenberg, whose writing history of samesex marriage in america, and author steve luxenburg who is looking at the end of segregation in the united states. Another works in progress finalist is steve one who is researching the creation...

So they realized okay, we are not going to win this way so what do you do then . Well, the kochs are very smart. They are terrific businessmen, both graduates of mit and they are engineers and they went back to thedrawing board to figure out the new model. And in the years after that, soon after that they began to draw up a blueprint for how you could do sort of an Assembly Line to change american politics, even if you couldnt win the popular vote to go there, they follow the footsteps of a coup...