Forest University Professors david lubin shares images from his book. Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan 3. Each weaker, american artifacts takes to you museums and Historic Places to learn what artifacts reveal about American History. Now we visit the newseum in washington, d. C. To mark the 150th anniversary of lincolns assassination. The New York Herald special Edition Published on april 15th and 14th, 1865 show how the news unfolded after the first Associated Press report that the president had been shot. Im the cure rater and direct or collections here at the museum and we are in our new exhibit called president lincoln is dead. This exhibit has a really sort of tight focus on seven additions of the New York Herald, which was the most widely circulated newspaper of the time that were published in the 18 hours immediately following lincolns assassination. So it is the minute by minute story of the news as it happened, as people were getting it in this country about the
Diplomacy, beginning with artifacts from the cold war. We are in the thick of the cold war now. And1950s, the late 1950s, there was some not so much thawing, but conversations happening. To exchange culture and to understand each other better between the United States and the soviet union. And so in 1959, there was this big exchange of National Exhibitions. So the soviets sent their National Exhibition to new york city. That was in 1959. Here is the exhibition booklet. As you can see on the cover they , featured sputnik. Their grandest achievement. So their exhibition covered sputnik and soviet industry, agriculture and cultural arts. Foretelling americas role, president eisenhower flew to washington for a preview tour in a lastminute decision. As for Vice President nixon, he and the russian delegation toured the elaborate show. The show is a counterpart of an american exhibition to be opened in moscow next month by mr. Nixon. In an elaborate cultural exchange, fullscale models of our
So, again, encouraging people to take their seats. Good evening, everyone. My name is kai bird, im the new executive director of the Leon Levy Center for biography which is celebrating its tenth year now all due to shelby white and the leon levy foundation. And i want to advertise, first of all, our new alliance with bio. This is our first sort of jointlysponsored event with them, but we are also, courtesy of will swift here the president of bio, we are also going to be doing, cosponsoring their great annual conference on biography next may. And that will also be happening here at cuny. Should be a great event with over 200 biographers. I also want to advertise and put out the word, we have a december 15th deadline for our new, our annual fellowship, and there are four fellowships given out every year of 65,000 a pop for aspiring biographers. So if you know of people who are aspiring, please encourage them to apply. And finally, i just, you know, im really thrilled that were able to do
Talk about tensions in the gulf region and his countrys relationship with the u. S. The American Enterprise institute hosted this event. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Sorry for the brief delay but i think youll find that this is a conversation that youre going to find extraordinarily interesting. We are delighted to welcome today his excellency Sheikh Mohammad bin bethani, excuse my pronunciation, appointed minister of Foreign Affairs of qatar in 2016, and the deputy Prime Minister in 2017. He is responsible for all of the ministry of Foreign Affairs issues including planning, implementing Foreign Policy, and hes here for a series of highlevel conversations with the department of defense, the department of state, and the white house that we are looking forward to hearing all of the details of. Whats going to happen today, the minister will join us at the podium for a brief statement, then hes going to sit down on the stage with our resident or v
The American Enterprise institute hosted this event. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Sorry for the brief delay but i think youll find that this is a conversation that youre going to find extraordinarily interesting. We are delighted to welcome today his excellency Sheikh Mohammad bin bethani, excuse my pronunciation, appointed minister of Foreign Affairs of qatar in 2016, and the deputy Prime Minister in 2017. He is responsible for all of the ministry of Foreign Affairs issues including planning, implementing Foreign Policy, and hes here for a series of highlevel conversations with the department of defense, the department of state, and the white house that we are looking forward to hearing all of the details of. Whats going to happen today, the minister will join us at the podium for a brief statement, then hes going to sit down on the stage with our resident or visiting fellow, excuse me, im getting your title wrong, is easier one, with our visi