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Celebrations of humanitys highest achievement, the apollo 11 moon landing. Were deeply honored to have Vice President pence with us this morning as we unveil Neil Armstrongs recently conserved apollo 11 ft skpas space suit. Also with us, jim brydenstine, who leads nasas organization whose achievements we celebrate. Im so happy that Rick Armstrong could join us to represent the family along with his family of the inspiring American Hero who took humanitys first steps on the moon. Thank you for being here, rick. [ applause ] during our yearlong celebration, weve highlighted the team that made ap...

Many of you probably dont think of late Abraham Lincoln in terms of american or indigenous history. Abraham lincoln had a lot on his plate. When he was president , the civil war and that dominated most of his attention. Underneath the surface, important events involving American Indians, events that one might argue make Abraham Lincoln a bit more of a problematic figure than he ordinarily was. What we may call the dakota war of 1862 occurred. It was drenched in blood as impoverished and hungry dakota waged war on settlers and faced the wrath of whites. Tried, convicted, and sentenced to death,...

Today. We are shifting the direction of our course today. We are moving away from catholics and in particular the jesuits. We spent a lot of time talking about the jesuits in this course. We are going to be moving toward the protestants. We will be looking at some of the missionary efforts in the work they did. In particular today, we are looking at their work in early new england. One thing i want you to think about for seminar is this really critical question. You have basically done a whole crash course in jesuit missionary work for the last four weeks. So think about this. I think about so...

Includes author interviews with Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg on her book, my own words. The heartbeat of wounded knee. Sharon robinson talks about her book, child of the dream. Rick atkinson author of the british are coming and Thomas Malone founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence discusses his book, super mines. The National Book festival Live Saturday august 31 at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on the tv on cspan2. In a short time ago President Trump sent out several tweets about china, the chinese ebony announced in response to u. S. Tariff hikes on chinese goods. China will imp...

One of the things thats important is i get to the point that i can change the premise that thats a valid position. Its not my position, its a position that i think is terrible in many ways but i can see that you could be a moral , decent person and think that. And if you cant do that, you cant relate to anybody who doesnt agree with you what would be thequestion mister brookhiser you would ask your wife on that issue. Let me inject a brief note of gloom. Williamseward was apparently a lovely man. The former secretary of state. This is when he was a senator before he got that job and he loved h...