Welcome to the kansas city public library. I am henry fortunato, director of public affairs. I want to thank you all for participating in my ongoing Stealth Campaign to provide speaking opportunities for all of my buds from graduate school. My all the guys i went to graduate school with at the university of kansas. Tonights entrant in that category is brian allen drake. An up and coming environmental historian who studied under the incomparable donald warster and now a lecturer in history at the university of georgia. But before i tell you any more about brian, let me introduce the topic of his talk by adapting an opening line that another one of our fellow graduate students used every fall on the first day of the undergraduate history classes that he taught. 100 years from now, he would say, all of you will be hows that for a wakeup at 8 00 in the morning . For a sleepy undergraduate . 100 years from now, all of you will be dead, and unless you accomplish something utterly extraordina
8 00 p. M. Eastern with c span contender series. Thatll be followed by the democratic nomination acceptance speech and later road to the white house, rewind of the 1968 president ial campaign p. Coming up next, Brian Ellen Drake of conservation of environmental. The kansas city hosted this for an hour long event. Well, good evening and welcome to the kansas city of public library, i am henry fortunado. I want to thank you for participating in my Ongoing Campaign to provide speaking opportunities for all of my buds from graduate school. All the guys i went to graduate school with at the university of kansas. Tonight entrance of that category is Brian Allen Drake and up and coming environmental study historian. Now hes a lecture history teacher of the university of georgia. Let me introduce the top of his talk by an opening line that another one of our graduate students use every fall on the first day of the under graduate history classes that he taught. One hundred years from now, he wo
[inaudible] for helping with all of the organization. Not to mention [inaudible] at the back whos also been a great help. Thank you to all of you, and its been a wonderful and stimulating evening. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] every weekend booktv offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2, and watch any of our past programs online at booktv. Org. Coming up next on booktv, Richard Chambers talks about his 40year career as an auditor for both business and the government, including his work with the Tennessee Valley authority, the u. S. Postal service and the u. S. Army. This is about an hour. [applause] thank you, leon, and its great to be with you all. This was my home chapter for a number of years, and im delighted to be back and to be a part of your program. This is the first audit conference that weve done with washington chapter for government auditors in a number of years. So were excited to be back and excit
From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news. Reporting tonight, lester holt. Good evening. Tonight the coldest weather of the season is settling in across much of the countrys eastern half. This winter of extremes has already exacted a heavy toll. Dozens of weatherrelated deaths from ohio to tennessee where this week at least 15 people have died, a third from hypothermia. Right now the siberian express is spreading across the east bringing single digit and below zero temperatures from the great lakes to the northeast. And even record lows in florida. Lets start in nashville with nbcs gabe gutierrez. Reporter relentless, snow, ice and now subzero below average have much of the country frozen over. In michigan new video of an officer somehow surviving this crash over the weekend. In tennessee a dashcam captured another close call. A worker clearing a crash scene barely managed to jump out of the way of a pickup truck. Have you ever seen this many here . Not ove
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