After the american dream. You can also watch all of our past programs any time at booktv. Org. Good evening everyone, i have been working with our coauthors to maximize the visual presence. Theyve written a very engaging book thats attracted many review since it came out a few months ago. The basic premise of the book is that the most important thing that the athletes get is a quality education. The book is structured into four sections, the history of the scholar athlete, profiles of high achieving athletes and how scholar athletes when and how to reform the system. The book makes the case that varsity athletics and Academic Excellence are not mutually exclusive. Both play an Important Role in the development of personal bonds and core values that lead to a happy and productive life. To add to the voice today the current pandemic is causing athletes, universities and the public to question the status quo. We will be using an interview format today there will be plenty of time for audi
American history tv on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. Youre looking at a time laps video reco lapse video, next on American History tvs american artifacts we visit the Thomas Jefferson building to learn. This program is just under an hour. Im sheryl, heim an exhibit director at the library of congress. Im barbara bear. Im a historian in the manuscript division. This jacob riis is a copresentation with the museum of the city of new york. It is the first time that the collections of the library of congress, the jacob riis papers have been married with the collection in the museum of the city of new york. We picked the word copresentation very carefully, because the exhibition here actually follows an exhibit that was at the museum of the city of new york and really that exhibit which was called jacob riis, revealing new yorks other half, was slightly difference. It looks at riis in a d
Good evening and welcome ia and chelsea with a good time to be born how Public Health gave children a future talking with Andrew Solomon. Before we start want to say a huge thanks to the team for making this happen and all of you for showing up we cannot host events without the community of authors and readers we are grateful for your support and to make this conversation so now just some housekeeping and the webinar tonight the speakers cannot see or hear you but you can see account of fellow attendees. A couple functions that you can find at the bottom of the window one is labor chat you can post comments and thoughts in the chat thats a great way to show your appreciation for the author have a specific question please post the and the q a module we will pull questions only from the q a to be answered in the later part of the program. And tonight. [chanting] book a good time to be born and to find actual shopping between noon and 7 00 p. M. Not everyday of the week and you can purcha
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