Impact of the americans with disabilities act. Barnum swaying on his experiences as us speech writer for former South Carolina governor mark stanford. An account of the lives of people on the gulf coast in the american revolution. And British Consul turned spy, charleston, South Carolina in the lead up to the civil war. For complete Television Schedule visit booktv. Org. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television joy serious readers. Here is a look at the books president obama is reading this summer. The list includes three nonfiction titles which looks at race in america. And elizabeth colberts pivot to prizewinning report on the relationship between humans and precipitous loss of in the sixth extinction and biography of George Washington which won the deal a surprise for biography in 2011. President obama is reading three novels this summer. The lowlands, all that is, about a man who has recently returned home from world war ii and the Pulitzer Prize winner for fict
The role of kansas. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] we continue with d. W. Carter, author of mayday over wichita the worst military aviation disaster in kansas history. It is about the 1965 crash ofan air force tanker into an africanamerican neighborhood in wichita. The crash killed the planes seven crew members and 23 people on the ground. All of a sudden the house was shaking and i looked out the window and the house was on fire and i raced downstairs to get my sisters and brothers. I came down to get them. I couldnt get here fast enough. It looked like everything was getting in my way and i couldnt realize what was going on. I started running up and down the street until i got here. Until i get in the house. E crash occurs 9 30 a. M. The plane went down at 20th and piatt street in wichita. Ofcrash landed in a section wichi
Missed that. Every time i speak about this event in a community setting, i see a healing occur. I can see families come out and talk about it and it gives us, in a way, we are getting this off of our chest. We are expressing this for the first time. There are many loved ones who lost loved ones at the time who never spoke about it. Now they have an avenue to talk about it. Inspired by lewis and clark, kansas pioneer samuel reader kept the diary starting in 1849 about his travels in the kansas territory. Up next on the cspan cities to work, a state archivist reads portions of samuel readers diary. Michael samuel reader was a kansas pioneer, farmer, soldier, artist and photographer, among many other things. He capped a daily kept a Daily Journal from 1849 to 1913, from age 13 to 878, i believe. The diary was donated to the society by his daughter right after his death in 1914. He created 15 journals over his life, but we only received 13 because in 1890s farmhouse burned and they were on
Through the turmoil forced upon me by a system designed by the u. S. Government to destroy my culture. I am finding my way back to the lakota way of life. I didnt know the medical words, so i called the problem what i felt it to be the thick, dark fog. [slow electric guitar melody] youre supposed to get look excited. [laughing] see . Happy. Oh, my god. Its a book. [laughs] its not even the hardcover. Its a start. Walter decided that he wanted to write down his memories for his children. And shortly into it, he reached a block where he had started talking about his boarding school years and he couldnt keep talking. He withdrew. He became very tearful. My own children im estranged from them, simply because i never figured out how to be a father or even how to be a human being. And i realize that they didnt know anything about me, because i never talked to them about what i was. It took us four years before we finally came to the end of what he had to say. So when the roads are bad, you k
Here are a few of the book festivals we will be covering this spring on cspans booktv. We will visit maryland for live coverage of the gaithersburg full book festival with congressman tom davis as well as former Senior Adviser to president Obama David Axelrod and we will close out me at book expo america new york city where the Publishing Industry showcases their upcoming books. On the first week in june we are live for the Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest including three and our live in Depth Program with pulitzer prize, on booktv. Welcome to topeka on booktv located in the northeast region of kansas, topeka is its capital city with a round 127,000 residents. Leading into the civil war this region was the site of many border clashes will screen pro and anti Slavery Forces earning it the nickname breeding the the leading kansas. It became known as the site of the landmark 1957 Supreme Court case brown vs. The board of education which declared racial segregation in Public Schools u