The book received eventually every prize in the world i think elizabeth, the lincoln prize, our Jefferson Davis award, the richard b. Harwell book award and the Richard Slatten award for excellence in virginia biography. I personally had the opportunity to read aloud an expert from an uncorrected proof of that book standing at this podium during the introduction of our 2007 simple pose yum about robert e. Lee. A sanchez often true, there is a story behind elizabeths emergence as a major civil war historian. She earned an m. A. In history from the university of pennsylvania studying withdrew gilpin faust, the now the president of Harvard University and i must tell a story about drew. When she was made the president of harvard people were sayingment is this an unbelievable, she is the first female to be the president of harvard. And i commented to her, i thought it was more remarkable that she was the first friend of the museum of the confederacy to be the first president of harvard. [ l
To write about the comanches in the great plains which is as far from connecticut as the frozen moons of jupiter. I will not bore you with the details of my past but to put it as briefly as possible i had my little epiphany in the spring of 1970. I had just been admitted to Princeton University and i was traveling there for a weekend where you see if you want to go there. It was a glorious day. Kind of like this morning actually. The spring was in full bloom per full bloom. I had taken a train and the last leg was on a smaller train which was the princeton to Princeton Junction that took the right to the campus. On the trip, i happened to be reading a book by f. Scott fitzgerald called this side of paradise. It was about life in princeton. At the time, it was absolutely magical. I happened to finish it as the train was pulling into the station. It is cute as a button. I was finishing it just as the train old in and i walked out and up onto the campus and i walked by 12 University Place
Panel, is going to focus on policy issues, policy issues who gets to come into the country, how, who gets to be naturalized, how, those kinds of issues, state governments, and also policy issues that have to do with the church itself, integration of our catholics. My apologies. Proper integration of catholics into american life. So those kinds of issues were going to focus on today. We hope to have a great discussion about what catholic policy issues are like, what catholics opinion, roles positions in policy debates of today, but we also believe the Historical Context, the history of catholics dealing with these kinds of issues, is also important. That will be provided as well. Im going to introduce our speakers and the order they will appear. Were going to begin with todd scribner, the Outreach Coordinator for the migration and Relief Services at the u. S. Conference of bishops. He focuses on issues of migration, Catholic Church, American History, dealing with immigration. He has a p
Our next speaker Elizabeth Brown pryor burst onto the scene in 2007 with the publication of reading the man, a portrait of robert e. Lee through his private lettersle. The book received eventually every prize in the world i think elizabeth, the lincoln prize, our Jefferson Davis award, the richard b. Harwell book award and the Richard Slatten award for excellence in virginia biography. I personally had the opportunity to read aloud an expert from an uncorrected proof of that book standing at this podium during the introduction of our 2007 simple pose yum about robert e. Lee. A sanchez often true, there is a story behind elizabeths emergence as a major civil war historian. She earned an m. A. In history from the university of pennsylvania studying withdrew gilpin faust, the now the president of Harvard University and i must tell a story about drew. When she was made the president of harvard people were sayingment is this an unbelievable, she is the first female to be the president of ha
Chairman. I have no idea what it is is like now. Think you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for joining us. Chairman mccaul thank you for having me. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] thursday, admiral Michael Rogers talks about Cyber Security. He is the keynote speaker at the sixth annual afcea Cyber Security technology summit. We will bring live coverage of his remarks at 12 15 p. M. Eastern. Coming up the Brookings Institution hosts a discussion on the state of the iran Nuclear Talks. Then a discussion on u. S. Preparedness for a biological or chemical threat. And the former Committee Chair talks about the role of congress and by a defense preparedness. Here are some of our featured programs for this Holiday Weekend on the cspan networks. Saturday at 8 p. M. , former texas state senator and gubernatorial c