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Sharing their new releases. Watching the nonfiction authors on booktv is the best television for serious readers. On cspan they can have a longer conversation and delve into their subjects. Booktv weekends, they bring you author after author after author that spotlight the work of fascinating people. I love booktv and im a cspan fan. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everybody. Thank you all so much for coming out tonight for this event. I am lissa muscatine, im one of the coowners of politics prose, my husband and coowner, business partner, brad graham, is floating around in the back so...

Where is the mental thing on some of this . You dont want to irritate the some of these major powers. Where does the mental ideas come . The thinking . Far be it for me to get in the mind of what makes spy master things to convince mexico to go to war against the United States and it works, but it becomes, as always has taught us, a great deal of arrogance of people in power and they think arrogant people think they can do whatever they want. They can change the course of history. And sometimes they do. Th thank you very much. Thank you. [ applause ] youve been watching American History tv on ...

This is a map of new england by john smith in 1616. This is yales copy that was done in 1631. I want to pause for a moment and tell you about this map and explain what makes it so important and what makes it so valuable. We all know of john smith from the Virginia Colony down the street from here and his role in founding that and study in 1607. He had sort of a Second Chapter in his life after he was sort of drummed out of virginia for reasons that i wont go into. He started exploring this area that was then just known as north virginia with the idea of founding a new colony there. And he thou...

Michael blanding recounted mr. Smileys career as a dealer and thief. This is about an hour. Thank you all so much for coming here this afternoon. Im not particularly pleased to be giving this talk at the National Archives wonderful repository of old books and manuscripts and the reporting of this book i became a great lover of archives, going to the institutions that smiley ended up taking rare maps out of. I got to see a lot of these old documents myself. Theres nothing like seeing an original document and being able to touch it with your fingers and see it with your own eyes. Its really a Wo...

Valuable. We all know of john smith from the Virginia Colony down the street from here and his role in founding that and study in 1607. He had sort of a Second Chapter in his life after he was sort of drummed out of virginia for from h reasons that i wont go into. He started exploring this area that was then just known as e was north virginia with the idea of founding a new colony there. And he thought that it needed a known snappier name so he came up with the name new england and john smith was actually the person it who coined that term as a way tome claim this territory for his ew engl hom...