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A cease fire has come into effect in the besieged damascus suburb of east and go to the area held by groups loyal to Syrian Democratic forces has been a key Strategic Point in the war because of its close proximity to the capital four hundred thousand People Living in the area are suffering acute food and medicine shortages meanwhile the Syrian Opposition says it will boycott talks that russia is hosting in such a next week the decision came as the latest round of u. N. Meetings wrapped up in vienna without a major breakthrough this does have a plan return of some writing to refugees from bang...

Following Hurricane Irma. [applause] also joining us in the east gallery is his wife first lady ann scott. [applause] gov. Scott good morning. Thank you for your graciousness towards me and my wife. It is wonderful to be here. I think about the first time i gave this speech. I am honored to deliver my final state of the state address today. I would like to recognize a few people. First, speaker of the house richard corcoran. [applause] gov. Scott mr. Speaker, i appreciate your commitment to cutting taxes to make sure that every floridian can get a great education. To Senate President joe negro...

American artifacts, Wake Forest University professor david lubin shares images from his book. Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Next on cspan, here West Virginia governor jim justice announced several initiatives to discuss the drug epidemic and to prevent child sex abuse. Now, only briefly do i want to belabor the past with you. I am going to stay back here. I am going to spook myself a little bit closer. Ok. , when i got here, this is what we were facing. Like it or not liking it, when i got here, it was in the middle year, the 16 17 year. We were supposed to have a balanced ...

University of toronto, so we are more used to this. We still appreciate it. Let me quickly introduce our panelists, give you some initial thoughts and a bit of the rules of the game. Just moving down the line of panelists, Jeffrey Pilcher is a professor of food history at the university of toronto. He is also the editor of the journal of global food history for those of you thinking of publishing outlets. Steve velazquez, next to him, is a curator in the division of home and Community Life at the National Museum of American History. And of course youve met paula. , and next to her is irina mic...

And my book, this time we win. A question i frequently get is where did you get this title, this time we win . Actually, it came from vietnam veterans. I would talk to them about what i was doing and say im writing a book on the tet offensive, and many times they would say, do we win this time . Hence the title, this time we win. It goes along with the other old cliche that you hear from the vets, that we were winning when i left, they say. So, yeah, part of the reason i wrote the book was to try to get the truth out about what happened in vietnam, and to honor the men and women who won that w...