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Our officer will be charged with murder. A South Carolina cop charged in the shooting of an unarmed black man. Cant get my brother back, but justice has been served. Intelligence agencies are investigating what they say is a breach of White House Computers by Russian Hackers. Heavy rain in southern california. A fastmoving spring storm, but it did bring quite a soaking. Flames raging from the top of an Office Building in l. A. The ladder rescuing a husband and wife. Power outages across the Nations Capital triggered by a substation in maryland. The white house and Capitol Museum going dark [ c...

This weekend in problems at all. So im predicting, roads will be like a normal rush hour on a saturday especially around the malls because weather will be cooperating. It will be nice, which is good, you can do decorating, pick out Christmas Tree but we will have people out and about. We are seeing departing storm system from earlier this week just some clouds around this morning. After rain and wind tuesday and snow and gray skies yesterday, we will finally see some improvement. It has been a while since we have seen the sun. Temperatures that being said are still very chilly. We are in the l...

Fords as he sat in the president ial box with his wife mary, watching the popular comedy, our american cousin or go he died the next morning. We sat down to talk about the widow lincoln. Thats monday night at 9 30 p. M. Eastern on American History tv. All this month, the presidency, we will be focusing on the life and legacy of George Washington to mark the anniversary of his birth on february 22. Next, author hugh howard talks about portraits of George Washington. It explores the works of Gilbert Stuart and John Trumbull focusing on how the artist captured the spirit of the first president an...

Bring something new to it. You are in for a treat. Now, as a narrative historian rather than a art historian or art history professor, what i do is write books. In order to do that, i look at the topography of the past and i try to identify fault lines that other people have not seen. This book is a case in point. Eight years ago, i had a conversation with my editor. I just finished a book about Thomas Jefferson and the early days of architecture. She said to me what to do you want to do next . I had a couple of have ideas which i described to her. She very nicely said, i do not think so. [lau...

My talk will be a little shorter than his introduction, i think but thank you. [laughter] my thanks to susan, the invitation for the miscellaneous arrangements. Michael and stephen. And coming to mount vernon is always a joy. I feel like i have lots of friends here starting with mary and through carol and on and others. This is a uniformly welcoming place for scholars. And i have spent time in using the archives here. And coming here has been able to enabled me to write all of the significant portions of several books i have done concerning the general. I have also wanted to join such traveler...