And chairman of the National Governors Association Larry hogan. Governor hogan was sworn in as the 62nd governor of the state state of maryland on january 21, 2015. In 2018 he was overwhelming reelected to a second term receiving the most votes of any maryland gubernatorial candidate and becoming only the second republican governor to be reelected in the 242 year history of the state. During the conversation Governor Hogan discusses his brandnew book launches on the date of this Virtual Event entitled Still Standing surviving cancer, riots, a Global Pandemic, and the toxic politics that divide america. Governor hogan originally submitted the book is published on february 1 just before the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States. They delay the publication for two months so he could add five chapters about combating the coronavirus, the economic crisis and dealing with the white house which he said made for more timely and interesting book. We now invite you to enjoy our Virtual Prog
The end of last year but were nothing if not adaptable and we know that many of you watching right now probably could not have physically gotten to grow rich books tonight that you can join us virtually. Again, i will reiterate on what was said that you should treat this as if you were in the bookstore. In the bookstore for reading, youll buy books so please do that. It would be great if they were debbies books but really buy a lot of books because were here in a bookstore, you dont just buy one, you buy a lot of books so i imagine with this crowd debbie needs no introduction but i will just briefly say, i think was great is if you look ather body of work , you see two very there is strong themes. The theme of social justice and the theme of defining america and to get to who gets to defineamerica. Used on this and picture books freedom summer and hes done in belgrade county books and she did it in the interesting intersection of middle grade and why a with the 60s trilogy and got so m
Eight weeks, american artifacts takes viewers into Historic Sites around the country. The vietnam war started on january 30th, 1968 with we had kong and north Vietnamese Forces attacking without 100 cities, towns and outposts across a broad swath of south vietnam. We visited the news ian in washington d. C. To tour an exhibit on the ted offensive and the battle of weighed, where some of the most intense fighting took place. We speak with john austin about the photos and the experiences in the battle. In 1967, i arrived in vietnam as a u. S. Army draft men. Scientists are coming to vietnam i was a highly motivated photojournalist. In fact, a combat photographer. I ended up with one of the best jobs that one could have in vietnam. I was only the target for their assigned to the newspaper stars and stripes, and they gave me total freedom to do what i wanted to do. I spent a year there photographing combats throughout the country. And january of 1968, the tet offensive broke out. If you ar
Greene discuss how roomy remember the civil war and whether to remove or contextualize confederate monuments. Then sunday, at 6 pm eastern, on american artifacts, we will preview photographs of native americans. Which includes more than a half million images. At 8 pm on the presidency, a look at president ial retreats, including abraham lincoln, harvard Hoover Mountain fishing camp, and stories of the kennedys. Clintons, and obamas, and marthas been yard. And monday night, at 8 pm eastern, august mark the 75th anniversary of the bombings up hiroshima and nagasaki. American history tv and washington journalist back of the events that led to the bombing and their legacy with author ian toll, and president trumans grandson, Clifton Truman daniel. Exploring the american story. Watch American History tv, this Labor Day Weekend on cspan three. From our lectures in history series, San Diego State University Professor Pierre Asselin teaches a class on the vietnam war. Looking at the conflict f
Me i would test myself against them and i did i didnt complain when i was there i got wounded twice i mean i did a lot of fighting i saw a lot of combat. When i brought it on myself i wasnt whining about it but i felt like i was lucky i survived and if you saw platoon you remember the end of it i found a meaning to my life in that war which is to say i really go on and teach what i know to others good teach goodness and teach experience teach the good things of life that i can garner that i can turn on and thats what ive done to the best of my ability one thing ive done which makes me very proud so i documented the war before you people knew our give me about vietnam through other sources and when it came to films and pictures it was the pain of the american saying in the in the deer hunter but he do say that he killed people and we had maybe stop the rape of van demis nels but you came back knowing the lie i just want to skip a lot on a bed to midnight express because the Prison Indus