Somebody who insults women, marks the disabled, marks pows, just wanted to get an education. Watch afterwards sunday night at 9 00 eastern on cspan2s booktv. South dakota, along the banks of the missouri river, chosen as south dakotas capital city in 1889. Reflecting the american frontier is home to cowboys and cattle, the backdrop for iconic American Writer laura ingles little house on the prairie series. With help of our Cable Partners for the next hour we feature the Literary Community beginning with nancy koppel on the Important Role south dakota plays in american history. We are in the research and Publishing Office of the daily Historical Society and also the headquarters of the south dakota Historical Society press. Back in the day in 1997, i felt it was a niche we could fill in south dakota. Nobody was doing our history seriously. I shouldnt say nobody, that is not fair. There was a concerted effort to do publishing for the state of south dakota, to do it right, you have to hav
Died with no heirs the execute for of her estate saw the folder upon folder of material dealing with Herbert Hoover and contacted the library. Of course, the archivists were interested and the collection was donated. Little did they know that it also contained important correspondence between lane and her famous mother as well as drafts of her mothers writings including a version of her own published autobiography. For decades fans have trucked to west branch like pilgrims seeking the holy grail. Theyve asked to see the big chief tablets that contain wilders drafts and our copy of the autobiography. Were indeed fortunate to have with us today Pamela Smith Hill who has recently published the autobiography. Laura ingalls wilder, pioneer girl the annotated auto autobiography, came out last fall and immediately sold out the first printing of 15,000 copies. Its now on the ninth printing and still selling strong. It took years of research, examining the various drafts of pioneer girl in diff
Front. There are two of those. Looks like those are being switched on. Feel free to come on down if you have a question. Hi. Im ryan. I was wondering from your perspective what the public reaction to the governments kind of crackdown on mqm in karachi, if that is seen as an overreach or if it is generally welcomed . Why can they garner so much support in karachi if theyre not a Popular Group there . Thank you. Thank you. Nice question. Mqm is one of the Political Parties which is very strong in karachi. They have had virtual monopoly. They are a political entity with legitimate constituency, but theyve also been a party that have engaged in a lot of criminal activities. They had run karachi and islamabad as a political machine on steroids. And so the military going after them and cleaning up some of that because there was a lot of kind of target killing that the mqm supported, et cetera. There is general support of that and even in mqms own constituency has been very muted in coming ou
To welcome you. Barbara lucas, and the vice regents of George Washington mt. Vernon, also president sheila ba bair, Adam Goodhart and the board of Washington College. And the cofounders and cochairs and all the trustees of the institute. Founded in 2005, the 50,000 George Washington prize is sponsored by our three organizations and is awarded each year to the best work about the founding era. This is the first type the washington prize has ever been warded to a play. And i would add no one anywhere will be surprised that tonight it will be presented to Linmanuel Miranda for his astonishing hamilton. We will hear from lin miranda a bit later, bifirst firsbut firs recognize some of our distinguished guests. Among them, former premiere of bermuda, former u. S. Senator bill bradley, the former u. S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic and then ambassador to france, craig staple ton and his partner in diplomacy debbie stapleton. We also have the former undersecretary for domestic finance and a
Every constructing, rebuilding, and refitting the iraqi army. So now, they are outfitted with modern american equipment, modern conventional training, and of course, supported by this devastating air power. What are some exact examples. Number one, probably the most notable is the crossing. They came to iraq to train the iraqi bridging battalion of how to do bridging operations. This is complex. This is grownup work. This is advanced warfare. I dont know that we have seen a bridging operation in the middle east conducted by middle east armies since the 1970s. So this is advanced warfare, advanced technique at any rate. They use those techniques to bridge the canal, a canal off the Euphrates River, gain a foothold in southern ramadi, and pushed into the center of town. Additionally, we have seen some good work in the combined arms breaching set. The iraqis in an effort to breach the ied minefields that isil has set up along the southern approaches into downtown ramadi. Again, this is ad