Afghanistan, and other nations. He is a washington ancestor. A descendent. You are not that old. He is the fifth great grandnephew of George Washington through his brother. He began his writing at uc berkeley, covering the rugby conflict reporting on burma and cambodia. He has interviewed many important leaders. Includingpublications the Atlantic Monthly and the new york times. He is the author of two other books. My brother my enemy. Al qaedas greatest escape. He has received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his articles. Most importantly among all of this he has been one of the Research Fellows at the mount vernon Research Fellows. He is somebody who puts us off to go cover a war. That is unusual but we are very accommodating. We welcome him in suggesting presenting his newest book read writing with riding with george sportsmanship and chivalry in the making of. Ericas first president lets give a warm welcome to him. [applause] phillip thank you very much. It is obvious a incredi
Lunchtime lecture series at u. S. Capital historical society. I want to end the series with something instructive, of course but also, not light and frothy by any means but something a , little less serious. By that i made, there is going to be a lot of visuals and i figure visual intelligence is something we can all lay a little bit of a claim to. For those of you who need the more traditional scaffolding, like an outline, we can start off with a few pages of that. For those of you to respond to competitiveness, have a couple door prizes i will give out at the end to people who can answer a couple questions that might occur during the talk. But mostly this is going to be visual. We are going to wait through to going to wade are through two centuries, works of art, mostly paintings, stump statuary of George Washington portrayed in art i should say a little bit about myself. They say i am chief historian, i am not an art historian, but anyone who appreciates the multiplicity of doing hi
Lunchtime lecture series at u. S. Capital historical society. I want to end the series with something instructive, of course but also, not light and frothy by any means but something a , little less serious. By that i made, there is going to be a lot of visuals and i figure visual intelligence is something we can all lay a little bit of a claim to. For those of you who need the more traditional scaffolding, like an outline, we can start off with a few pages of that. For those of you to respond to competitiveness, have a couple door prizes i will give out at the end to people who can answer a couple questions that might occur during the talk. But mostly this is going to be visual. We are going to wait through to going to wade are through two centuries, works of art, mostly paintings, stump statuary of George Washington portrayed in art i should say a little bit about myself. They say i am chief historian, i am not an art historian, but anyone who appreciates the multiplicity of doing hi
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 15, 1865 (he succumbed to the bullet wound of the previous night on April 14) at the Ford's Theatre in Washington DC by stage actor John Wilkes Booth. Sujoy Dhar visits the Ford's Theatre museum ahead of yet another death anniversary of the US president whose resolve to end slavery cost him his life.
A Boston-based auction house on Saturday sold a pair of tickets for a performance that President Abraham Lincoln attended on the night of his assassination in 1865 for $262,500, the company said.