Studies institute. I began our institute back in 1995. The institute was born in the midst of the controversy around the enola gay exhibit which was going to be held at the Smithsonian Institution but got canceled. This was an attempt by the smithsonian to do an honest and balanced exhibit about the decision to drop the bomb and the consequence of the atomic bombing. This was in 1995, the 50th anniversary. The smithsonian a civic got canceled. The museum in hiroshima and nagasaki asked to bring some of those artifacts to American University and do an exhibit here on the 50th anniversary. While we were planning this, the museum, and your shame and nagasaki, asked that we would bring some of the artifacts to the American University. That was the first time that the abombma and nagasaki museums didnt exhibit as an japan. They have been doing it ever since. This is the 20th anniversary of our exhibit and the 70th anniversary of the actual bombing. We decided to do it again at American Univ
Vice president. It is my pleasure this evening to introduce dr. James oakes, who is title is a distinguished professor of history at the City University of new york graduate center. He began his academic career as a student of one of the greatest mid 20th century exponents of the causes of the civil war and an understanding of slavery. And that is professor kenneth stamp. Before he speaks, i just want to mention some of the works he is well known for. An early work called slavery and freedom. Biography ofual Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, the radical and the republican. Awardwinning freedom national. Recently, a most little collection of essays called, the scorpions sting antislavery and the coming of the civil war. I will leave these on the table and you can come and look at them afterwards. And maybe decide to order one or two. So, without any more introduction, Professor James oakes. [applause] going to take me a minute to get my paper out here. Right one. Well, thank you a
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King i think a Writers Institute is something that is very important within the culture. We are a culture of words, of voices, words are key to our imagination, our capacity to envision things, we ourselves are not completely tied to print on the page senses of writing, but i think that there is no other art form so readily accessible other than perhaps film which we work with too, but it is there is something in literature that just captures the human spirit. This weekend join booktv, American History tv and cspans local content vehicles as we look behind the scenes at the history of literary life of new yorks capital city albany today at noon eastern on booktv on cspan2 and sunday at 5 00 p. M. On American History tv on cspan2 un cspan3. Up next Beatrix Hoffman presented history of the American Healthcare system. She presents her thoughts on why the United States has been one of the few developed countries to not adopt universal health care. And examines why the issue is so divisive.
To have a lot of access to members. So i looked at newspaper articles, internet services, all kinds of Public Record documents. I interviewed a couple of them, but after a while i decided to stay away from the interview perspective and i really tried to take the view of ion the outsider. If somebody wanted to find out about numbers of congress in the outside and obviously im an overly interested outsider so im not the typical outsider, but if somebody wanted to find out about members, what would they have to do to do that . Theres an amazing amount of Public Records sources out there. You can find out a lot and enough to get a good picture, get a reasonable picture of what a member of congress is doing. This week, ray kurzweil and his latest book, how to create a mind the secret of human thought revealed. And it would National Level of recipients attempts to determine how the brain works and apply knowledge to the creation of Intelligent Machines. He discusses the research of the edito