Our city store visits detroit, michigan to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For eight years now, we have traveled to u. S. Cities, ringing the literary scene and Historic Sites to our viewers. You can watch more of our visits at the span. Org beauty store tour. Org cities air at the Detroit Museum and we are about to walk into an exhibit called americas motor city. Detroit has been. The motor city capital of the world since at least 1915 when there were over 42 Companies Making cars and another 75 Companies Making parts. While other towns build cars, we built lots of cars. The detroit area enjoyed a wealth of strong manufacturing, a lot of it based in the building of carriage bodies but also in building iron stoves, building Railroad Cars, realworld wheels and the rails that go with them. Understood the manufacturing process but also how to deal with steel, iron, rubber. They had all the engineers, designers and toolmakers and the tools they needed to make an auto
Missionary work for the last four weeks. Think about this. Think about the texts we have read and the work we have gone through. Spanish work on missions in south america by looking at we did work with jesuit relations. The we did the novel and adaptation of the novel into a film. We have been into south america, france, japan. We have been doing this for weeks. The question maybe we can start our seminars off with this thursday is why . Why do we spend so much time talking about the jesuits . I have my own reasons and answers to that. I would like you to develop them. May write that down and make a note to yourself. Why are we spending so much time writing but the jesuits . It is something we can start the conversation off with. One of the things i should say as a way to segue into this discussion of i will come back to that. Really do inform and shape Protestant Missionary work in important ways. You guys probably know this from your western civilization course. The protestants and c
Informed, a republic thrives. Get informed straight from the source on cspan. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word from the nations capitol to wherever you are to get the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan powered by cable. Good afternoon. I am pleased to be that moderator of the third and final panel. Title for this panel is realworld scenarios illness, catastrophee governmental response. The idea is to give a sense of practical realities of 1947 statute. I have a great honor introducing artist and wish panel. Doctor joseph is the e William Davis junior md professor of medical ethics cornell college. He is also visiting professor of law at solomons distinguished scholar in medicine, bioethics law at yale law school. Doctor finz will be speaking about experience in the 1970s for several months is first in line for the presidency. Doctor rose mcdermitt is that david Mariana Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown Un
Good afternoon. My name is roy brownell, and im pleased to be the moderator of participant for the third and final panel. Title for this panel is real world scenarios illness catastrophe and governmental response. The idea is to give a sense of the practical realities of the 1947 statute. Now i have the great honor introducing our distinguished panelists. Dr. Joseph j fins he is the e William Davis jr. Md professor of medical ethics at wild cornell medical college. Hes also visiting professor of law and Solomon Center distinguished scholar in medicine bioethics and law at yale law school. Dr. Finz will be speaking about the experience of speaker carl albert who during the 1970s for several months was first in line to the presidency. Dr. Rose, mcdermott she is the david and Mariana Fisher University Professor of International Relations at brown university. Shes also author of the book president ial leadership illness and Decision Making dr. Mcdermott will be speaking about president ial
Author jeff quinn. You open your most recent book, waco, with this quote from rick perlstein, the historian. A fog of crosscut motives and narratives, the complexity that defies storybook simplicity at a that is usually the way history happens. I think the quote is the most cogent of ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself and its true. Know historic event happens in a vacuum. Its tied to many other things. And thats the fascination in research and writing on narrative, nonfiction, history. What i read a quote from you as well, and this is from 2021 in the cleburne times review. A lot of people no longer want to buy nonfiction to learn things. They want nonfiction books to reflect what they already believ want books to reinforce their opinions. They want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is even worse than they thought. If you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction, for the last several years, theres three categor