Histori historians talk about artifacts featured in their joint publication, the civil war in 50 objects. In this program they discuss items related to the end of the war and president Abraham Lincolns assassination. This conversation took place online, and the New York Historical society provided the video. Good evening and welcome to the eighth and final episode of the history hour. Tonights topic is saving the union and ending the civil war at the battlefield and the ballot box. As always i want to remind you that tonights program which is being recorded will last approximately 45 minutes. This includes 15 minutes for questions and answers. Please submit your questions via the q a function on your zoom screen at any time during the talk. We will respond to as many as possible during the final part of the program. And now, saving the union and ending the civil war. So our series has argued that an aggregate objects and documents have the singular power to convey a narrative in your c
Good afternoon, welcome to the stand lus and Transportation Committee for today, monday, july 6th, 2020. I am the chair of the committee joined by supervisor safai and member supervisor dean preston. Our clerk is ms. Erika major. Could you please do you have any inaudible . Clerk yes, due to the covid19 Health Emergency and to protect board members, City Employees and the public, supervisors legislative chamber and Committee Room are closed. However, members will be participating remotely. This precaution is taken inaudible state wide stay at home order and all local and state federal orders, declaration and directives. They will continued through participate in the meeting to the same extent if theyre physically present. Public comment will be available on each item on the addenda. Both channel 26 and sfgovtv. Org are streaming the number across the screen. Each speaker will be allowed two minutes to speak. Comments or opportunity to speak during the pluck comment periodd are by calli
Aware many of you have no idea who i am so thank you for showing up out of the spirit of pure curiosity. I think it speaks very well of you and i know theres really big names at the festival and i feel honored to be among them so thanks for coming. Who am i to mark a few things around i write a column called the undercover economist for the Financial Times. At the pink newspaper thats really good. I recommend it. Thanks baxter. And the second thing is i present bbc radio so im present a show for the Bbc World Service called 50things that made the modern economy. Ive presented a show for bbc radio for aboutnumbers and how we think about numbers and how numbers lead us astray. And sometimes help us understand the world. And i also have a podcast with a gentleman called michael lewis, a gentleman called Malcolm Gladwell called Cautionary Tales which is all aboutthings going wrong , sometimes in amusing ways and what we can learn from them. So in between all that, i tried to write a few bo
Includes nighthawks, doctor kings refrigerator, dreamer, facing a good thing and Middle Passage for which he won the National Book award in 25 years ago now. 1990. Wow. In 2002 he received the arthur letters award in literature from the American Academy of arts and letters. In the format tonight will beam remarks by Clifford Thompson and a conversation by doctor johnson and mr. Thompson and then we have time for your questions. Without further ado, help me welcome Clifford Thompson. [applause] thank you, thank you all for coming. And thanks to the library for hosting this, its great to appear with doctor johnson. I thought what i would do is read the first few pages of the introduction to my book what it is and then lay out the way the rest of the book is set up. Put on my old man specs so i can see. This is from the introduction. I am a black man, brooklynbased, 54 years old as i write this, for many years as i can remember there has been at the core of my being making me who i am or
Good evening and welcome, im rita lerner, daughter of Holocaust Survivors and trustee of the museum of jewish heritage, a living memorial to the holocaust read it is my pleasure to introduce a special evening. Before we begin tonight id like to say a few words about the Museum Museum of jewish heritage is a leading New York Institution dedicated to fighting antisemitism and bigotry. For more than 20 years, the museum has challenged visitors intellectually, a rigorous understand the ways in which the humanization of the people can involve deeply destructive and area and engaging with history, people of all ages and backgrounds inherit our mission to never forget you and to combat intolerance that endures to this day. If youre interested in receiving any information of upcoming events, please join our mailing list, a sign in sheet can befound at the admissions desk. I also invite you to become a member of the museums community, we are honored to have you with us tonight to celebrate the