College. We are coming to life or my home office. In atlanta georgia. We been doing a whole series of Educational Programs that fall under abworking for social justice and encouraging the expression of diverse and marginalized voices. All through these virtual formats. We feel very fortunate that we have the privilege of talking to authors all over the country during this time. We feel that its really significant we continue to do the programming we already have scheduled because folks need history as we move through this historic time. Theres really no i can become no better book to help us focus on the movement for black lives were needs right now. If were white and want to contribute to the movement of black lives can do that now. We have the editor here michael long and Pamela Horowitz who is julian bonds lifelong curator. She is having technical difficulties but abmake yourself at home. We will get to some question and answer in the chat but please keep your cell phone on you. You
Their works theres been on health and Education Programs will present each of the historians and guide a question and answer session toward the end. You think you might like other programs please go to our website. Now enjoy. Hi good afternoon and welcome everyone to the inaugural edition of this new guilder Lehrman Institute of history program. Book breaks brings you some of americas greatest historians they discuss their most recent books. Today will be joined by eric foners he discusses his book, the second founding. But before i formally introduce professor foner i want to go over couple rent home keeping rules. Today is mothers day so i want to wish a happy mothers day to the most important people in history past and present, our moms. Happy mothers day to all the moms were now watching. But we are going to be doing as we will first be going through some of the tech issues, some of the tech aspects for you viewers out there that introduction of myself and the rest of the team and
And the exhibits of what would have happened on the ground didnt matter the closing months of world war tii. To do this we asked our own rob citino. She among the seniors, i will beat him to the punch line and say he has the longest on staff. He is a Award Winning historiah. He taught for three decades including stints at west point, the u. S. Military economy, and the war college. He came in 2013 for the International Conference. He is one of our featured tour historians. He came to our 2015 tour, but he did not come to our 2015 International Conference because we did not invite him that year. We invited him to join the staff as the Museum Senior historian and we could not be luckier to have a topnotch scholar to guide us, so ladies and gentlemen, our friend george citino. What was up in 2015 . What did i do you sit at home and there is a big party in new orleans and youre wondering what happened. Thank you for those comments, ger my. I remember the first time i spoke at the conferenc
Edges closer to sending troops to war torn libya lawmakers are due to vote on a proposal for military intervention that couldnt up escalating the conflict in a country thats a major transit point for mike brooks. Also coming up creating a more Sustainable Future germany designates 2020 as the year of the bio of qana make more on the campaign to promote Green Products and services. I brought in thomas great to have you with us has ordered Mass Evacuations of coastal communities as bush fires rage across the nation now at least 18 people have been killed naval ships and aircraft are delivering food and water to thousands who fled the town of molecules are taking refuge on local beaches Emergency Services say this summers wildfires are already the worst on record. Another devastating 24. 00 alice and this is whats left of the coastal town of monaco. With cooler conditions on wednesday firefighters and residents took a moment to count the costs at once a popular holiday distillation now lo
As we settle in i often pick a word for the day. A kind of how i govern myself often times and my frame of mind. But today im going to take an image of the day if you look at your screen, one of our commissioners shared with me this image and i think it sets the tone and stage and underscores the importance of why we are here. This is a chinese book for kindergartners and even if you dont speak chinese, circled r. Two letters, ai. Kindergarten textbook. The senator talked about us getting ready from grade school to graduate school. Now we are talking about kindergarten or even pre k. If we are going to keep ahead and stay number one when it comes to ai so i just want to start with this image because again it really for me underscores the urgency of why this commission was formed and why its so important as we are here today. We have a broa had a broad mandh concrete steps the government should take to build and maintain a Machine Learning work force to address the National Security def