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Hello. My name is kai bird. And executive director of the leon leavy center for biography at City University of new york, and we are sponsored by the Leavy Foundation when we do events like this to promote the arts and crafts a biography among other things. We had been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years, and were here on a session with of the 20th anniversary i chose of the National Book festival and the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholars big...

Why it hasnt put all rumors to rest. Driven away. With less people driving, fatalities have plummeted on our nations roads. But not everywhere. Find out which states are seeing an increase and why in some places it may be more dangerous than ever to hit the road. Shots on campus. 50 years after the National Guard opened fire at kent state, well go back to talk to two students who were shot and hear from the man who took the iconic photo from that historic day. And one fresh idea in the age of contactless dining and prepackaged meals. We go inside the company thats found an innovative way to do...

today. we'll see how far we debt whether we have a speaker or not. but we want to see a lot of same stuff tomorrow. >> i think that the official term is groundhog day, congress. >> while there is that! we will see. kevin mccarthy might, he might be on his way to breaking the hundred year old record of number of votes most since -- i think like nine is the most that we have for. that >> he's already broken the record for most humiliated person that is seeking the speakers gavel in modern american political history. >> yes. >> so we will see what other records he can shatter and the ne...

traditional lecture format. and those who have heard our next guest is on one of his many tv appearances or the lectures at c-span has brought in over the years will know would i treat he was. and that guess is historian, h.w. brands. that's the book you see peeking over my book. the zealot and the emancipator. john brown, abraham lincoln and the struggle for american freedom. anyone who's observed the controversies this past year over lincoln's statues have celebrated his role as an emancipator or seeing the new and current tv series, the good lord bird which dramatizes john brown a...

we leave. ted is a distinguished lecturer at the city university in new york. he has been a contributor to such publication such as the washington post and the new yorker. and the new york times. and the times he edited the collection of the centennial essays call the union. he wrote a beautiful op-ed essay on james be cannon and abraham lincoln in 1860 and 1861. that op-ed was drawn from his new book. lincoln on the verge. 13 days to washington that i hope you see over one of my soldiers. i'm not going to try to guess which one that is. it's a riveting account of winter, not just fo...