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Knucklehead who is a lifelong fan of the Detroit Lions. The good thing about being a lifelong fan of the Detroit Lions is that the experience teaches important life lessons. For example, how to deal with severe and ongoing disappointment. I have learned that humor helps. Who knows the difference between the Detroit Lions and a dollar bill . It turns out that from a delano dollar bill you can still get four quarters. Thank you, i will be performing all week. Lets talk about football and Theodore Roosevelt. I like to start with a statistic. In 1905, 18 people died playing football. In 1905, 18 p...

Actor, entrepreneur, and congressional medal of honor winner. Next on history book shelf louis warren discusses the public image of the famous and controversial figure in his biography Buffalo Bills america, william cody and the wild west show. This is recorded at the center of the American West in boulder, colorado in 2005. Its about an hour. [applause] thank you all for coming out tonight. Its great to have such a terrific crowd. Book tv is here, cspan. So, yeah. Lets hear it for book tv. We dont have an applause light up there so patty is going to wave her hat during the lecture at which po...

15842069, whats it all about . Neil well, generations is a whole new way of looking at how the past shapes the future. Our book retells the entire story of america from the perspective of separate generations moving through time. We follow each of these generations from childhood to old age, starting with the first puritan colonists and going through the small children of today. Along the way we discovered some outstanding patterns in history that seemed to be recurring in the appearance of generations. We found, for instance, that every generation belongs to one of four lifecycle types that s...

[ inaudible ] you know, again, it goes back to what i said earlier. Nick and i are both professional photographers both actually i spent five years of wire photographer. Really our job. Its that simple. Dont you think. Picture showing a story. Always the right story. Its quite fascinating, very interesting. My question was, when you were in country, were there any areas you were specifically forbidden to go to or simply explicitly told you should not or were there any subjects or areas you felt were off limits that perhaps that wouldnt be beneficial for your camera . Good question. Well, i kno...

University, a course called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early feminism feminism. The civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement and now were sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things, but today, our subject is the or the so...