Good evening and welcome the bancroft prize program. Columbia university is honored to cosponsor this annual celebrate with the Columbia Department of history each year. The history. Selects one of its leading historians to chair a panel of three jurors chosen the finest scholars in the field hailing from Top Research University across the country. We are delighted that American History tv elected to expand its partnership with us this year by Recording Program for airing an archiving on its website. We will circulate word when the air date and Online Access are available. Were also thrilled that so many guests are joining us for tonights program which features brief interviews with the book prize winners. Their scholarly works delving the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. It is a joy to celebrating books tonight. In addition to the important prizes that are awarded the endowment left to Library Libraries by, Frederick Bancroft enables us to continue to acquire both rare archival material
Celebrate with the Columbia Department of history each year. The history. Selects one of its leading historians to chair a panel of three jurors chosen the finest scholars in the field hailing from Top Research University across the country. We are delighted that American History tv elected to expand its partnership with us this year by Recording Program for airing an archiving on its website. We will circulate word when the air date and Online Access are available. Were also thrilled that so many guests are joining us for tonights program which features brief interviews with the book prize winners. Their scholarly works delving the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. It is a joy to celebrating books tonight. In addition to the important prizes that are awarded the endowment left to Library Libraries by, Frederick Bancroft enables us to continue to acquire both rare archival material and new publications of Scholarly Research conducted by historians around the world. It is a privilege to wo
Good evening and welcome the bancroft prize program. Columbia university is honored to cosponsor this annual celebrate with the Columbia Department of history each year. The history. Selects one of its leading historians to chair a panel of three jurors chosen the finest scholars in the field hailing from Top Research University across the country. We are delighted that American History tv elected to expand its partnership with us this year by Recording Program for airing an archiving on its website. We will circulate word when the air date and Online Access are available. Were also thrilled that so many guests are joining us for tonights program which features brief interviews with the book prize winners. Their scholarly works delving the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. It is a joy to celebrating books tonight. In addition to the important prizes that are awarded the endowment left to Library Libraries by, Frederick Bancroft enables us to continue to acquire both rare archival material
The president and ceo of Americas Promise Alliance is here for a conversation this morning about the social and educational issues affecting our nation youth. Thank you for being here. Remind our viewers what Americas Promise Alliance is and what its mission is. Guest if the nationss Largest Network of organizations, communities and individuals devoted to improving the lives of young people. We have over 400 national organizations, 200 communities and thousands of leaders across the country. All of whom are focused on creating conditions of success for all young people in america. Host it is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year . Guest this month. Cspan covered walltowall the original event, the president s summit for americas future in philadelphia in 1997. Host all living president s. Guest and that he reagan representing her husband came to philadelphia to call the country to attention and action on behalf of young people. Host how and why was this organization founded . Guest
That is just one way that karl jacoby exciting new book, the strange career of William Ellis, the texas slave who became and mexican millionaire is so important. He is at Columbia University in new york where he lives with his wife and son. Two previous books, two tells to adjust some of the largest issues in American History. From the role of the environment in shaping human power relations to the challenges representing phone. This indigenous people. Jacoby brings life the story of ellis. The book strips away the layers of mysteries surrounding ellis, revealing a history of slavery and emancipation of racial mixing and racial segregation in the us mexico borderlands. The result is a study that casts into sharp relief the intimate and tangling across National Boundaries that have rented mexico and the United States inseparable element of a shared north American History. So please join me in welcoming karl jacoby. [applause] good morning everyone. When michael and thought we would do i