Part of a twoday symposium hosted by the National World war i museum and memorial in kansas city, missouri. I would like to introduce our next speaker of the day, dr. An associate, professor of history at the United States army command and general Staff College at Fort Leavenworth kansas. Prior to this position, he was an active duty marine Corps Officer and retired in 2009 as a Lieutenant Colonel after 22 years of service. Today, we have the honor to welcome his welcome him for his talk that will explain how forces battled for air superiority during world war i. Listen truly for how he will how skyfought battles lead to the modern development of the concept of total war. Welcomeoin me in a warm for dr. John curatola. Thank you. I appreciate the introduction. If you notice when she went down my biography, im a marine officer who works at an army school who studies airpower, so i have kind of a schizophrenic background on that. Today, we will look at airpower as it pertains to 1916. Fir
In the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first to have done so. Throughout history, humans have been fighting diseases, waging neverending wars against violent contagions. In fact, there has never been a time when humans were not affected with microbes. During this time of the south described as the detective, our speaker aside his own brushes with Infectious Diseases and contagion. He worked in my workers in zaire for the first ebola crisis. After 9 11 he after 2003 he was called to quarantine big guns. These are some of the stories he crafted in the next pandemic. As an epidemic intelligence officer, a Disease Center at the welcome his mission for over two decades was to lead the efforts to prepare the public for the outbreaks and health emergencies. While docked there khan told with microbes will be problem, he writes that not all epidemics and pandemics are inevitable. In fact, most outbreaks can be mitigated if not prevented. The question is how end do we
Those. Thank you all. [applause] i would like to thank all of you for your attention, fill out your evaluations and enjoy the rest of the festival, sonia shah and Karen Masterson will sign books. 48 hours of Nonfiction Book and doctors every weekend. Here are some featured programs this weekend. Wall street journal Political Columnist kimberlys trostle argues the left is utilizing tactics to usurp the political process in her book the intimidation game. Government abuse is unsighted. There are a couple reasons for that. I care about freespeech and the first amendment. I libertarian when it comes to this. I have no allegiance to one party or the other. I have written about the abuses on the left in my column on the wall street journal but i assumed i would find stuff on the right too. I didnt. On sunday, in depth with jeffrey toobin, will take your calls, text and email questions at 3 00 pm eastern, Mister Toobin will discuss his latest book, the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and
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David nasaw recounts the life of joseph p. Kennedy patriarch of the political family that included president john f. Kennedy and senators robert f. Kennedy and edward kennedy. The author examines Joseph Kennedys career in business and politics, which included ventures in wall street, hollywood and the founding chairman of the securities and Exchange Commission. This is a little under an hour. [applause] thank you, all. Delighted to be here. As i tell my history students at the City University of new york in the ph. D. Program thank you. [laughter] as i tell my history students until they want to choke me the past is a foreign country. We can visit, try to learn the customs and the white smith the fragrances, recoil at the foul odors but we are foreigners in a strange land. This is true as much in the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. Writing about the recent past is not easy as it is this time around. First there are people you have to talk to. And while