For those watching on zoom some housekeeping remarks. You are an attendee of our zoom event tonight, that means you do not have video or audio privileges but you can interact with our moderator and guest by writing your question in the q and a box. The moderator will be reviewing those during the question and answer session which will conclude tonights program and to introduce the moderator it is my pleasure to pass the program over to doctor robert citino. Doctor robert citino, Senior Historian at the National World War Ii Museum in louisiana, we have a special guest with us tonight. A friend of the museum. My friend and a wonderful writer and author, ian toll, one of those people who doesnt need an introduction as we like to say. The introduction, he is extremely accomplished scholar and writer. He is the author of the epic story of the founding of the u. S. Navy as well as a trilogy called the pacic war, the third volume of which has just been released called twilight twilight of th
Want to thank the commentators and everyone for assembling this deeply honor especially to be giving the William Roger lewis in the flesh. We were on the state Department Committee suffering through a lot of bows and arrows back in the decade prior, and i got to know him well and i feel really honored to give a lecture that is in his name. This book came about and so many of you, my friends, have heard this origin story. This came about because lewis liked the review i had done and mentioned the series that helen was doing that would use my biography to teach history that would pick biographical topics or would use a representative biography to get a broader subject of history. They had just published their first volume. It was on pocahontas. And issues regarding native American History, they were looking for somebody to do something on foreign relations, he offered me the opportunity to put together the perspectives. These were supposed to be short and concise books, that was the idea
Color line migration and black resistance in canada 1870 to 1955 and the forthcoming back the glory of their deeds a global history of black soldiers and the great war era. The professor has earned several International Awards and is a former fellow at the university of hidelbergs center and at harvards institute. And finally we have professor jeffrey t. Salmons, professor at history at New York University where he teaches a broad range of courses in United States and race and society. Hes the coauthor of excuse me, author of beyond the ring the role of boxing in american society, and the 2014 book harlems rattlers and the great war which he coauthored and has been rightfully declared the definitive history of the 169 regiment. Hes received fellow ships from the National Endowment of the humanities he has plans to write a book and im going to hold him accountable to this, writing a book on the heroic and tragic life of Henry Johnson. As far as the format for this, our panelists will sp
To feel the Nervous Energy of the finalists and the champagne would be flowing. The kirkus prize isnt what you may imagine when you think of literary award ceremonies. There is no formal banquet or assigned seating. It is a Cocktail Party with a glamour and energy all on its own. Last year when Entertainment Weekly wrote about the major literary awards they referred to the kirkus prize as golden globes, fun and unpredictable and tonight we want to share that energy with you at home and give you a glimpse of what it is like to attend the ceremony in person. To that end our editor at large, megan, caught up with some of this years finalists so we could connect with them as as we were all at a party together. You can view the full conversations on kirkus. Com, but here is a sneak peek. A typical year we would all be gathered at the Austin Public Library for the ceremony, a Cocktail Party beforehand, everybody mingling. I wanted to ask whe could we find you as a finalis before the award ce
To come in . Because, you know, trump says that he wants the troops home from afghanistan by christmas, and biden has been a bit more nuanced about his position on afghanistan. You know that the military ballots could turn over the margins you just talked about. It depends upon the number of military ballots that there are. I dont know how many military ballots there are from pennsylvania, and i doubt that there are more than 46000. 00 ballots. So you agree with james baker that trump certainly shouldnt have called a halt to voting in a, in a democracy. Oh, of course not. Why would we halt the voting simply because in a democracy the president doesnt call doesnt halt the voting. And the court doesnt hold the body, not under these circumstances. Now, the supreme or the u. S. Supreme court did order, and that ballots that received after november served which was the use shoe that was brought to the or now before that, this will, the election should be segregated and preserved, which they