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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. We are all sad. I am rubber provided i am Robert Brevard i am rubber provided with the reverend reporter pete thank you for coming today. Those in the back pews might make about coming up here a little bit closer to his wonderful authors that are with us. Our panel today is called shadow country. Race and country. Race and crime 19th century america. It will be part of the san antonio book festival broadcast april 30th on cspan2 if you want to see some of the programs that you missed because youre in here or because we do such...

Thank you for that kind introduction. We love having you here. I have been asked to speak about the origin of the vice presidency up to the 12th amendment. That way i hope to answer some of the wonderful questions. In its 1789 origin, the creator the creation of the office of Vice President was an afterthought to Constitutional Convention and reflected spectacularly for thought. It as aegates dismissed useless appendage, while others saw the constitutional mistake. Even its proponents of the convention did not ask to serve a significant government purpose. Explain. The idea of having a Vice Pr...

20 minutes. Dr. Keene all right, so today we are going to talk about america during the First World War. I called this lecture americans at war, the myth busters addition. I did that kind of intentionally because we think about understanding the First World War in general, there are so many myths and misconceptions attached to the war that it is really interesting for us to first understand why those myths exist and then unpack and see the reality of the experience. I wanted to start first by sort of talking about how this connects to the First World War all. Not as america but also the sense ...

And by that i think you meant black peoples party. And you mentioned that, of course, you wanted to write your party. History tells us that this was not always the case. As you talk about, at the beginnings of the book, talk about the evolution, how did it come to black people being all republicans to black people being all democrats . I am an older black folk from the south who to this day is republican because they have a visceral reaction to the word democrats. When they were growing up it was the democrats who were abusing and terrorizing their communities and parents to keep them from exe...

Perspective on race. Former congressmen allen west talks about book guardian of the republic. And then at 11 00 collection of accounts of holocaust survivors. It happens tonight at cspans book tv. Surprise winning historian is next on book tv, he examines the political career of George Washington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. My name is adam kushner, our weekly session for analysis and essay, arguments, Investigative Journalism and for this day Nonfiction Book coverage. Its amazing. I am extremely excite today introduce today excited to introduce today eric larson, few University ...