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Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments Bates College and ucla. She finished her phd at ucla std she has spoken here on a numerous occasion, and spoke about euleulysses s. Grant. And now, fiona has written a book about thomas mast, the author of political cartoons published in 2013. It is my pleasure to welcome fiona. [ applause ] hi. I want to thank peter for invitinging me here, and ashley for all of the help she provided as i prepared to come and spend this hour with you. Im here to talk about thomas nas and what i want to do is to introduce him to you broad...

Have accumulated and theyve led to this really distorted view of both men. But today well be talking about Braxton Bragg. Earl has written a fantastic biography of Braxton Bragg, i believe we have kolpi copies of volume as well. Earls going to speak to us today about a topic. Im pleased to see were not going to hear crickets here because the topic is Braxton Bragg who is the butt of all jokes and of course civil war historians. Not a particularly humorous crew. It is my pleasure to welcome earl hess. [ applause ] thank you very much. Thank you, pete, very much, for that generous introduction. ...

Steve berry he has a cool job, he looks after this stuff in the building. It is really neat. A really interesting place, kind of where it started. The smithsonian was started by a man named james smithson. He was an innocuous british chemist. He was just a guy who had an interest in science at the time. He died at he had 500,000 when he died and he left it to his nephew. His nephew had been married and had kids, life would be great, he would have cap the money, but he died childless. The provision said the money would go to washington, d. C. To found the Smithsonian Institution for the increas...

Mayor and economist discussed leadership changes after the 1967 riots. This talk was hosted by the smithsonians museum of African American history and culture. Thank you for joining us once again. Could i ask you to join me in a round of applause of appreciation for prudential and laura ready and representatives of the Prudential Foundation for their support. In the last Presentation Panel judge coleman started speaking about the importance of and we know leadership comes in many forms and styles. We want to explore that notion with a couple of extremely experienced and honored individuals thi...

The meeting of the u. S. Commission on civil rights comes 18order at 10 a. M. On august 2017. The meeting takes place at the Commission Headquarters at 1331, pennsylvania Avenue Northwest washington dc. I am sure captain lehman, and thesheriff next to the are vice chair, and the other commissioners. I believe we have on the telephone, i would like for you to confirm as they say your me, [indiscernible] [laughter] are you present . I am here. I see that the reporter is present. The meeting now comes to order. Is there a motion to approve the agenda for the business meeting . Yes. Is there a sec...