Welcome to the kansas city public library. I am henry fortunato, director of public affairs. I want to thank you all for participating in my ongoing Stealth Campaign to provide speaking opportunities for all of my buds from graduate school. My all the guys i went to graduate school with at the university of kansas. Tonights entrant in that category is brian allen drake. An up and coming environmental historian who studied under the incomparable donald warster and now a lecturer in history at the university of georgia. But before i tell you any more about brian, let me introduce the topic of his talk by adapting an opening line that another one of our fellow graduate students used every fall on the first day of the undergraduate history classes that he taught. 100 years from now, he would say, all of you will be hows that for a wakeup at 8 00 in the morning . For a sleepy undergraduate . 100 years from now, all of you will be dead, and unless you accomplish something utterly extraordina
Include Albert Einstein and steve jobs. And on American History tv on cspan3 on saturday the civil war cowboys in postcivil war years. How the cowboy became symbolic of unified america. Andly well sturtour the house that was the headquarters of collarlara barton. Let us know about the programs youre watching. Call us at 2026263400. Email us at comments cspan. Org. Like us on facebook. Follow us on twitter. This sunday on q a, neuro scientist dr. Francis jenson on recent discoveries about the teenage brain. They dont have their frontal lobbies to actually reason. Their concepts of actions are not very clear to them because their frontal lobes are not at the ready. They have frontal lobes, its just connections arent at the ready for split second decision making. And dont forget the hormones are changing in both young men and women and the brain hasnt seen these yet in life until you hit teenage years. So the brain is trying to learn how to respond to these new hormones that are rolling a
Unified america. And sunday evening at 6 00 on american artifacts well tour the house that was the headquarters of the american red cross. And learn about the life of its founder, clara barton. Find our complete Television Schedule at cspan. Org and let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Call us at 2026263400. Email us at comments cspan. Org. Or send us a tweet tweet cspan comments. Join the cspan conversation. Like us on facebook. Follow us on twitter. Next the chair of the federal Energy Regulatory commission on u. S. Energy policy and its role in the implementation of the epas Clean Power Plan. Setting rules to cut Carbon Pollution from power plants. The epa announced it will finalize the plan by midsummer. Good afternoon and welcome. My name is john hughes. Im an editor for bloomberg first word. Thats the breaking news desk here in washington for bloomberg. Im also president of the National Press club. The club is the worlds leading professional organization
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Anything can be anywhere, cadillac jack. Another aspect of mark twain that i got into more recently is miniature books. All of the books in this cabinet have some tiein with mark twain. Theyre either, they were either a story about him or one of the stories that he wrote that was translated or, im sorry, not translated, but miniaturized. So this is a story to he wrote about the civil war called luck. And these are, these have bookplates in them from previous ownerrings. Some of this is owners. Some of these are famous people from the miniature book world. And the artwork is all miniaturized. And then its just illustrated and bound. Then this is an interesting one here, the little teenyweeny book. I dont know if i can get it out of there. Do you want to see that . Because im not sure, i think its by barbara rehal, and shes noted for doing the really smallest miniature books. And she does all this artwork by hand. And its actually got printing in it. You have to read it with a, like a 20