Are watching American History tv, all weekend every weekend on American History tv. Tv,ext on American History novelist and historian kevin baker discusses his book, america the genius how a generation of tinkerers changed the world. At an event in cape cod, mr. Baker describes what he thinks are key factors in the nations innovative spirit. Guestant to thank our tonight. Kevin baker has written several your, at you are still in but also was raised in rockport, massachusetts. He has experienced being a massachusetts person. Tonight,ing forward to keeping an ion the weather, but please welcome kevin baker. Mark, for having me. Great to be on the cape, if only virtually. Hoped to be there, but i am going to have to make do. Talk to you about america the ingenious, this book i wrote. The best thing about writing books is that hopefully, you learn something. I learned a great deal writing this. Americansory of how invented, developed or learned to exploit so many innovations that would sha
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Revealing secrets of a flooded lost world the 1st humans in iams to visit a prehistoric mine. We begin the program in better room where 250 people have been arrested in the capital minsk after an escalation in violence against the protesters about 100000 people flooded the center of the city making their way to one of the president ial compounds activists have been demanding the resignation of president Alexander Lukashenko following that disputed election result last month step vasa now reports. This is how look a strategy to stop the protests plays out on the streets of minsk people heading to a peaceful rally. They are randomly snatched by mosque policeman driving around at high speed those daken are aggressively thrown into a van or aljazeera cameraman was also grabbed by police shortly after filming an interview luckily they decided to let him go they let him go. To. The protest or we interviewed had to run to safety to escape detention and he would merely pay. Us. You know would
The happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. I want to give you a version of what ive been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. Will present this room as a las vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us led headed thinkers turned into gold tone scholars and teachers picture a process of something that works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes class mates once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleagues, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little because money came to yale to study with harlem are a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that racked up group of students in american studies. clapping not a cold or exactly but we did become friends, puzzling over readings, yawning over brilliant, but sometim
Port after its Research Mission in disputed waters but tension over territory still lingers with its greek neighbor. A shroud of smoke and ash fills the sky complicating efforts to fight wildfires across the u. S. West coast. We begin in belarus where hundreds of people have been arrested in the capital following an escalation in violence against protesters hundreds of thousands flooded the center of minsk making their way to one of the president ial compounds activists have been demanding the resignation of president Alexander Lukashenko following the disputed Election Results last month so fast and reports. I i was this is how look i shank a strategy to stop the protests plays out on the streets of minsk people heading to a peaceful rally are randomly snatched by mosque policeman driving around at high speed those daken are aggressively thrown into a van or aljazeera cameraman was also grabbed by police shortly after filming an interview luckily they decided to let him go let him go.