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We are very pleased to welcome back to this stage dr. Mark grimsley. [applause] it is a pleasure to be here this afternoon. I am looking forward to talking with you. Lets get this up on the screen. We are talking today about the and about the final wars on native americans. I am neither a civil war historian or a military historian. I still know a lot about the civil war. [laughter] but i dont identify as a military historian. And the way i actually came to the subject of my first book, which i will be talking about some today, actually was by way of the interest in moral judgment in war. The ...

Chernow into a rock star. It is true for years ron was recognized as one of our great contemporary historians. His life of George Washington won a pulitzer prize. His history of the house of morgan received the National Book award. His biography of Alexander Hamilton was a New York Times best seller. But lets be real. Before hamilton became a sensation, ron was not exactly what anyone would call a household name. He once said to a journal when he was told in the hundreds every week ron replied wiftfully his books usually drew about 30 letters. Now thanks to hamilton ron gets a multiple of that...

Libraries became safe havens when schools were closed and local businesses were closed. Your library stayed open. You are a personal hero and he thought you were the most capable individual possible to run the library of congress, so that was a good recommendation from a missourian about what you have done. Much more thanes the title would indicate. The library of congress is our countrys oldest Cultural Institution and was created by , 200 years ago. It was created to promote scholarship, to promote creativity and the goal to become a pro class repository for a vast touch of work. Leading the...

Electric companies are prepared to respond. The motion notion that you are going to give over control of the defense of your industry requires that you give up an awful lot of information. A lot of these companies the not want to give up. There was a bill passed last fall in the senate after years of wrangling that has private industry willing to pass on information to the government. But only after they have sanitized it. Watch the communicators tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan 2. Coming up next, q a with writer and historian ron chern ah followed by washington journal. Later a discussion on ...

Court. [inaudible] he would have to confess that the American People are right and he is wrong or veto a bill this is not hard to understand. And it is appalling to me that you can have justices in the Supreme Court that have difficulty reading and understanding the constitution and interpreting it to interpret what it says. And how with a straight face they can say all of these discussions are part of a constitutional argument. Heart to think that we could have another justice that would be arguing policy when it comes to constitutional questions. How do you predict the Supreme Court these da...