A lost world war ii bomber crew. It features author and journalist gregg jones. This is a unique fellowship that allows an experienced and talented writer to spend a fall semester at the library of congress and a Spring Semester at the university of nevada las vegas to work on an ambitious writing project. Greggs project is ambitious and he has spent a quarter of a century reconstructing the lives and times of 10 airmen aboard the liberator which disappeared over austria on october 1, 1943. As you will hear gregg has a , personal connection to the story. He has traced the lines of the fallen servicemen, situated them within the larger story of combat deaths in europe, and reflect it on his own personal journeys to the village in southern austria where the men disappeared. This is the research you will hear about today and which will inform his forthcoming book about the subject. He has been a Foreign Correspondent and investigative journalist for more than 30 years. He is the author of
Former chief historian. Astrobiology is a search for life in the universe. The search for origin of life here and elsewhere, the future of life, the implications if we find life. It is a very interim interdisciplinary subject. That is what brought you to the kluge center . We look particularly at the humanistic aspect of astrobiology, which is brought in itself. I looking at the impact on society if we find life. On how is your thinking human beings would respond to discovering intelligent life in the universe . The first thing you have to ask when you approach the subject is how you approach it at all. It is a far out subject. Trying to figure out
Im very pleased to be hosting this event in conjunction with the German Historical Institute. Before i introduce the speakers let me give a word of thanks to three individuals who were instrumental in putting this together. Amanda, the assistant director National Come a center and chris graduate student in history at George Washington university and is serving as an intern at the center. Is one of a series of congressional briefings that the center hosts. This one is in partnership with the German Historical Institute. Its part of an ongoing effort on the part of the center to ng his torque insight historic insight to contemporary issues. The center is strictly nonpartisan and the purpose of this program is not to advocate for any particular policy. But rather to provide Historical Context that can help inform policymakers and the public in general when they deal with difficult contemporary issues. Consensus among historians that immigrant communities have been vital to American Econom
Programming, include varying points of view, and be submitted by january 2015. Grab a camera and get started today. Traveledan history tv to the library of congress kluger center in washington, in. Which was established 2000. The Center Welcomes over 100 scholars every year to pursue Research Interests at one of the Worlds Largest libraries. Next, we speak with one of their 2014 fellows. Joining us on American History tv is stephen dick, a former nasa chief historian. Tell us what astrobiology is. Astrobiology is a search for life in the universe. That involves the search for origin of life here and elsewhere. The nature of life, the future of life, the implications if we find life. It is a very interdisciplinary subject. That is what brought you to the kluge center . We have this chair in astrobiology to look particularly at the humanistic aspect of astrobiology, which is broad in itself. I looking at the impact on am society if we find life. What is your thinking on how human beings
And then the book on Warren Harding, published in 2009. We also have karen who is an archivist, who prepared the harding papers for reader use on july 29. She graduated from brown. Excellent historian and a firstrate person. We have dr. Richard harding, the grandnephew of president harding. He was the president of the American Psychiatric association. I shouldnt make that mistake. I dont need to apologize for that. Very brief description of the harding papers, which is probably unnecessary, given the publicity they have received. But there are about 1,000 the papers. They are approximately 1,000 pages of correspondence between Warren Harding and Carrie Phillips who was the wife of one of hardings good friends in marion, ohio. There was a love affair between the two from 1905 to 1920. The collection, however, only has letters between 1910 and 1920. Most of the vast majority of the letters all of them probably i dont know if there are any carrie letters in there. There are a few. The vas