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Ho a the gun that built an american dynasty. We are having this talk taped by cspan. During question and answer if you can step to the microphone in the middle and speak loud and clear to it, that would be fantastic. Laura has worked for the bbc since 1993 reporting for radio and television programs. Vi her first book a very british family, chronicles for engine luish roots. Tonight we are exciteed for her to share her american roots. Are you a weeks ago during a lantern tour i gave a tour around the site. I would not have known was his simple tombstone meant. Oliver and his family have also b...

Chaos, hoovervilles, agricultural angst, top soil had blown all over, dust bowls, the october 1929 crash of the stock market. So our country was really in tatters. And there is Franklin Roosevelt, this man whos overcome such odds in his personal life, overcoming polio and being sidelined from politics, now ushering in a new progressive era and offering 100 days of the new deal programs right off the bat, what people call the alphabet soup of the new deal, trying to get banks to run properly, starting a civilian conservation corps that would plant 2 billion trees, starting to create, you know, ...

Peter and youve been listening to some of Eleanor Roosevelts radio address hours after the attack on pearl harbor in 1941. In fact, she gave that address before her husband, fdr, even spoke to the nation. For the next two hours, were going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first in historians polls on first ladies. And were going to look at her life, her relationships, and her time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Well, good evening and welcome to cspans first ladies influence and image series. Joining us this evening to talk about Eleanor Roosevelt...

The civil war. He discusses topics such as, how intelligence was used during the war and why they are so few primary source documents on civil war era intelligence gathering. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this event. It is a little under two hours. He is a historian with the Central Intelligence agency. He joined the u. S. Government in 1986 as a staff historian at the army center of military history, where he served for 14 years before he joined the cia. During his time with the agency he also served in rotational assignments as deputy and chief historian at the National Reconnaissance of...

He is a historian with the Central Intelligence agency. He joined the u. S. Government in 1986 as a staff historian at the army center of military history, where he served for 14 years before he joined the cia. During his time with the agency he also served in rotational assignments as deputy and chief historian at the National Reconnaissance office and at the office of director of National Intelligence. Dr. Laurie has taught at the American University and university of maryland at baltimore county. He specializes at the history of intelligence. He is the author of 40 articles on both military...