Fascinating stories that are full of courage that weve never heard about. This evening he will share from his new book escape from paris, a true story of love and resistance in wartime france which is based on official american french and german documents, history, personal memoir and as well as personal interviews. It is a thrilling wartime adventure story of american aviators rescued by fighters taken to not the and hidden under the noses of gestapo. Please join me welcoming stephen harding. No pressure there. I would like to personally thank you all for coming, i really appreciate it when people show up, and hope not to bore you. I want to give you some quick background on my stuff, people wonder how you military history. I was born and raised in Southern California long time ago and my father and all my uncles fought in world war ii in the pacific. So i grew up hearing their stories of fighting the japanese in sealing the broad ocean and Everything Else. When i was 19 i am listed i
Redeeming and welcome to the National Archives im david i am the archivist of the United States and im least that you are joining us for tonights program whether youre here in the theater or joining us on facebook over youtube and a special welcome to our cspan audience. Before we hear from mo rocca i would like to hear you about two other programs coming appear in the theater. On tuesday november 12 at noon Richard Brooke kaiser will tell us about his new book give me liberty, the history of americas exceptional idea. Which examines 12 documents. On thursday november 14 at 730 we will host a veterans tribute world war ii soldier, photograph or target first with the u. S. Army signal corps, photo collection at the National Archives, offer of the new book with aftershock of the human toll of war and will join historians for discussion of the wellknown images of the war and to keep informed about these events and others throughout the year check our website, archives. Gov or sign up to t
Washington who is author of tonights book , boss of the grips, the life of James H Williams and the red caps of Grand Central terminal. This is part of an ongoing series of programs posted in conjunction with our series the ballad of harlem. If youve not had a chance to look at the exhibition it will be up through the end of december. There are all these things inside the exhibition that i think you will hear about tonight and also it might feed your own historical knowledge about how the ballot for harlem examines several strands of black place making in the 20th century offering viewsof president s and institutions dedicated to education , politicalengagements , cultural affirmation and creativity. The exhibition as i was mentioning earlier highlights includes the brotherhood of sleeping car porters which was the first union of black workers particularly plowman porters and youll also find selections from ruby dee and aussie davises collection which we recentlyacquired. Also items fr
The issues facing the issues of Rural America in tight robe. Enjoy tonight and on the weekend, cspan2. A very warm welcome to the first lecture of the general society, labor, literature and landmark lecture series. I am karen taylor, Program Director of the general society. The labor, literature and landmark lecturere series are supported in part by public funds from the new York City Department of cultural affairs, in partnership with the city council. For those of you who may be less familiar with the general society and if you dont mind i will ask how many of you here f this evening will this be your first visit . Okay. Right, warm welcome and of course a welcome back to previous attendees. The general society was founded in 1785 by 22 artisans in today are 234 yearold organization continues to serve the people of the city of new york. Ek do this through our culturl and Educational Programs and they include our lecture series of which tonights lecture is a part of and general Societ
Sense to call this microbes, viruses, and destiny because of our writers we have. This is ed yong, site letter for the atlantic, author of a new book called i contain multitudes. Its about the micro biomes, the microbes of our panel title. And carl zimmer a a science wrr for the New York Times and author of many books including most recently a planet of viruses. Im sonia shah, and author of a book called pandemic which is about how microbes cause epidemics in the past and future in all these books will be for sale by barnes noble and will be signed aftery this session at signing table h. Of you guys can, joint us for more discussion there, too. First before we start id like to ask if anyone here actually is aua microbiologist . We have four. We can make anything up. [laughing] you guys correct us if you see nothing a wrong. I think its a really interesting time to talk about microbiology because of theres been a paradigm shift in recent years. If you think back since the late 19th cent