On tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the death toll from stunning explosions in northeastern china rose to 50 today, and was expected to go higher. The blasts erupted last night in tianjin, at port facilities packed with petrochemicals. Jonathan rugman of independent Television News has this report. Reporter this was the Warehouse District of tianjin, one of chinas biggest ports in a country proud of being the manufac
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org and with the ongoing support of these institutions and individuals. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill the death toll from stunning explosions in northeastern china rose to 50 today, and was expected to go higher. The blasts erupted last night in tianjin, at port facilities packed with petrochemicals. Jonathan rugman of independent Television News has this report. Reporter this was the Warehouse District of tianjin, one of chinas biggest ports in a country proud of being the manufacturing and export hub of t
Library many years ago to work on the book, a staff come up to me and say to me, unsolicited, do you know that so and so was here, so and so and listing all the famous historians but then they said to me, you know who our favorite is . David mccullough he was here and he was the nicest and said to this me. He was appreciative. Im enjoying the stories. So what i did was that night before i came in the next day to finish my research, i went out and bought doughnuts for the staff figuring they might Say Something about me. Not in the same breath as David Mccullough but in that respect. One other thing, i think we would all agree and its without question that David Mccullough is the most celebrated, revered historian of our times. Hes a National Treasure. [ applause ] hes a National Treasure not only the president ial medal of freedom and multiple pulitzers, National Book aday and as gay said, too many awards to announce. But also, the voice which was alluded to earlier. I have always love
William seale is the volume of a history of the white house. Anita mcbride, former chief of staff to former first lady laura bush, delivers introductory remarks. This program held at the house across from the white house is just over one hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the White House Historical association. I am Anita Mcbride a member of the board of directors. Our associations president could not be here. Im delighted we are hosting you at the historic decatur house. This is the perfect setting for todays special cspan presentation of the book first ladies president ial historians and the lives of 45 iconic women. The White House Historical suspicion was in fact founded by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy in 1961. We are a nonprofit educationals association. Our purpose is to enhance the understanding, appreciation, and enjoyment of the executive mansion, one of the most important symbols of our democracy. All the proceeds from the sale of the associations books and all our p
Passing legislation to censor reading at a time of war. Within a matter of months they got this legislation overturned. It was amendment so they no longer were going to be prevented from publishing books with a political viewpoint and they ended up being able to publish any books they wanted. That said, some books did upset certain groups of people two books in particular that came under fire were strange fruit by liian and forever amber by kathleen windsor. These books were controversial because they had sex scenes and the publishers thought if the men want to read books that give them books with sex scenes but there were certain groups, religious groups that didnt want them going to the servicemen. The books one was banned by boston and one of the publishers thought this was even greater than the army was willing to distribute to their filters and he was actually quoted in the newspaper saying it looks like all you have to do is get banned in boston so there were attempts to censor a