Hello, my name is kai bird, from cuny, City University of new york. And were from the foundation to do events like this to promote the arts and crafts of biographies. And weve been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some yea years. Were here on a session off the 20th anniversary of the National Book festival and the theme this year is american ingenuity. Were going to be talking tonight with two notable public intellectuals. Harold holzer is one of the leading lincoln scholars. Currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer, the author of eight books. Professor widmer is on the faculty of mccauleys honors college. Today well discuss his latest book, lincoln on the verge. A story about the 13day train journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington d. C. To be inaugurated as president. These are two very different books. Im going to hold up each of them. This is literally a mini biography, well, not so mini, its a subst
Beaten. American history goes on in several different directions. What is he doing for Foreign Policy . He is the one you could write novels about. He was on the Supreme Court. He left the Supreme Court. He ran for president. Then he went back to the Supreme Court. When of the finest minds on the courts. Why use . Andrew jackson said that he looks like god and talks like god. Charles evans hughes the republican president ial nominee soon after the national convention. Tonight, we looked at the life and legacy of Charles Evans hughes who was a twoterm governor, secretary of state, and twice a Supreme Court justice. He was of the Senior Partners to talk a little bit about Charles Evans hughes and his support for women voting. Also very proud and the original edition of the independent weekly magazine that came out the week after justice used to see the republican nomination for the presidency. Justice hughes got the republican nomination for the presidency. Mrs. Hughes, she is on here in
Pitcaithley promised he was going to include it is my distinct pleasure and honor to introduce you to doctor dwight pitcaithley. applause nic promised he was not going to include the rock star part. But the best laid plans. Thank you for coming tonight. Thank you to nick for that wonderful introduction. Thank you for the site for posting this event. Im going to talk for about 25 or 30 minutes and then ill turn it over to you so you can talk about whatever you want and talk about whatever you want and hope that during my time i will have been provocative enough that we can have a conversation that goes on for another 30 or 45 minutes robert warren, many of you know, threetime pulitzer prize, who wrote that the civil war is our only felt history. History lived in the national imagination. I think that is true whether youre ancestry goes back that far or not, my mostly does not. We sort of the civil war thanks to ken burns maybe is a part of us. It is a part of our dna. We think about it
This talk was part of the symposium hosted for the emerging civil war block. Good afternoon, it is my pleasure to introduce ray andrew red, a native of county pennsylvania. He holds a bachelors degree and masters degree in American History from Indiana University of pennsylvania. He holds a masters degree in Library Science from the university of pittsburgh. He is the director of the library where he is also an adjunct professor. Two volumes of the study guide, point of no return is part of the turning points collection. It is on the 1864 president ial election and the confederacy. Currently, gettysburg churches have become a brief introduction to the civil war medicine as what he is currently working on forthcoming in 2018. In 2016 he received permission to create a wayside memorial marker in canada spur pennsylvania. Let herman was the medical Service Director in 1862 and 1863. This market was dedicated on november 11th of 2017. Since 1993 he has reenacted American Civil War met fede
Ascends his throne japans now he toke finally proclaims himself the new head of the worlds oldest hereditary monarchy and tannadice Prime Minister wins a 2nd term just introduced liberal party comes out ahead but just barely at all now have to form a minority government. And the talk side of the beautiful game the risk of dementia and parkinsons for x. Football players in their later years a study of former professionals raises concerns about the long term consequences of playing to sport of the highest level as well as earlier stages of development. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program we begin with a meeting that could decide the fate of syrias kurds turkish president branch of type of one has been holding talks with russia. President Vladimir Putin in the black sea resort of sochi topping their agenda is the future of Northern Syria after the withdrawal of u. S. Troops from the area turkey launched an offensive to clear the area of kurdish militias and carve out a socalled safe zon