Id like to welcome yall here to politics and prose. My name is allen watke and im then events staff here where we host klose to a thousand author events a year at three locations. For everything confirm you can go to the website at politics prose. Com or pick up a monthly printed calendar. Before we get started id like to ask everyone to please silence your cellphones so not to disrupt the event. And when we get to the q a, if you could line up at themake crow phone at the pillar lat would be great because were audio recording and cspan for booktv is filming as well. So wed really like to have your questions in there following the q a well have a signing at the table and if you could just leave your chairs where we are because we have a couple mored reading today. So today were very excited to welcome robert c plumb, celebrate his back the bert angel, five women who changed civil war america. Collective biography of five extraordinary women who came to National Prominence during the ci
Jessica flores on the Chain Reaction accident. Reporter the school bus was carrying a pregnant driver and seven children. They were headed toward allen horsedale elementary school. About 5 miles away. On San Pablo Dam road, chp said a nasty crash set off a Chain Reaction. For unknown reasons, the volkswagen slowed its vehicle. And in an attempt to avoid collision, the chevy clear veered chevy careered r veered off and spun out of control. It crashed and sent 15 people to the hospital. Two in critical condition. Witnesses rushed in to help the kids. The bus driver was pregnant, panicking. I did what i could. Everybody was safe for the most part. But it was really pretty traumatizing to everybody. Reporter chp says doctors checked out the seven children on the bus. And each is doing fine. Its unclear how the pregnant bus driver is doing. But two others, one in the white pickup truck, another in the crushed vw, face serious injuries. One possibly an internal injury. Sounds like they were
So that means everyone has to speak directly into these microphones. I want to introduce our panelists. We have the president of davidson college. She is a long accomplished administrator, and has spent much of her career in houston, where she was a Vice President of international disciplinary initiatives. To her left is the provost of northwestern university. Until he moved to northwestern last year, he was the dean of yale college, and the edmund s. Morgan professor of African American history and studies at yale. He is working on many interesting projects, and has written an introduction for the new addition of dubbois epic souls of black folk, still used in many universities to address the issues of our time. We have the executive dean of letters and sciences at the university of california, berkeley. She is a professor of history and a prizewinning scholar with 20 years of experience teaching at berkeley. To her right is the president of Wesleyan University in connecticut. He was