To tonights program. To our members, it is your support that makes nice like this possible. To the many of you joining us for the first time, a warm welcome. Before we begin, now is the perfect time to turn off your cell phone or anything else that might make noise during the program. Of newuary, 2016, a team york times staffers discovered dozens of photographs in the New York Times archives. The monthlong series explore the history behind the photos, garnering 1. 7 million views and thousands of comments. We are thrilled to welcome tonight two of the authors who were involved in creating the unpublished black history from the New York Times archives. Is a contributing photo editor at the New York Times and the creator and editor of a times blog. Rachel swarns is an author who writes about race and race relations. She is the author of american tapestry, the story of the black, white, and multiracial ancestors of michelle obama. Moderating the conversation this evening is the curator of
Graduatean and Harvard School of architecture. We always like to ask everyone off cell phones and beepers and now lets give barry lewis a warm welcome. You. Dont need wis i that. You know me. Im all over the stage. Interesting i had people talking to me about the lecture. About theally talking whreuBrooklyn Bridge ands as brooklyn. New york would never admit it needed rooklyn but it it. Again, just in case people were series of three lectures i did the first one bout a month ago and in recouping that remember new york and Staten Island becomes a by the 1820s and 180s. In phafrpblt and 1875 one Manhattan Island. That is called growth. 1860s upper left is an print of the built up part of manhattan and new york. Those days new york city feels Manhattan Island and when river you ross the were in the independent city of brooklyn. By the time you get to the 1860s the bridge will begin in 1869. Reason it was needed by the ime you get to the late 1860s downtown new york is the Central Business
He is best known throughout new york for the series of video walking tours presented by channel 13, including the Emmy Award Nominated shows 42nd street, broadway and harlem. He lectured at numerous vienna venues, including columbia, university of pennsylvania and smithsonian and Harvard Graduate School of planning and architecture. We always like to ask everyone to turn off cell phones and electronic beepers. Now lets give barry lewis a warm welcome. Thank you. [applause] professor lewis i dont need that. You know me. Im all over the stage. Actually it is interesting there it i had people talking to me about the lecture. Im not really talking about the the Brooklyn Bridge as much as brooklyn. New york would never admit it needed brooklyn but it needed it. Again, just in case people were not here, its a series of three lectures. I did the first one about a month ago. Remember new york and Staten Island becomes a premier city by the 1820s and 180s. 1830s. 60,000 in manhattan in 1800 and
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College professor bradley bircher, former Washington Post reporter Molly Mccartney examines the u. S. Military industrial complex, jack cashin takes a critical look at the crash of flight 800, and booktv visits peoria, illinois. For a complete television schedule, booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, its 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, its for serious readers. And now were kicking off this weekend with John Strausbaugh, author of city of sedition. Its about new york city during the civil war. [inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose. Thank you so much for coming out here to politics prose for yet another one of our enlightened and lively author talks. You cant hear me . Okay. Well be quiet. [laughter] and at that cue, please let me please silence all your cell phones at this point, and also let me just go through a few other housekeeping details. So the author will speak for about 20 minutes, 20, 25 minutes, and w