The civil war in the east from gettysburg appomattox. His newest book is darkness at chancellorsville it was released late may. In addition to offering over 30 books, ralph has been a u. S. Army enlisted man and career officer, a columnist and media commentator, a strategy and security analyst, and a researcher in the developing world. His fascination with the study of our civil war dates back to his early to his childhood entering the wars continue. At the present he is working on a novel set during the cold war and is a contributor to the Hoover Institute publication on military history and its impact on world affairs. Without any further introduction, i give you ralph. Thank you. [applause] its always good to be back here. Its terrific. Thank you for coming. I know many of you would much rather not being this condition him and would much rather be out in the 95degree heat but thanks for making a sacrifice. Tammy, in covering my biography, left out one very important thing. I was als
Chosen as one of New York Times. One notable books of 2015. Professor moore teaches at the university of oxford and has lectured internationally on 18th century history. He also hosts a podcast called travels through time, which i encourage you to check out. Tonights moderator, richard cohn is the author of making history, a book that we presented in this past year in the american inspiration series. He also has written by the sword chasing the sun and how to write. Like tolstoy, the forming former publishing director of two leading publishing houses, he has edited books that have won the pulitzer the booker and many other prizes 21 books under his watchful. I have been number one bestsellers. Richards written works have appeared in the New York Times book review and in the wall street journal. He is also a fellow of Royal Society of literature. Richard will join us for the second half of our program. But to start us off, peter. Welcome to you. Peter moore. It is such a delight to have
Was not the case several hours ago. This woman took video of a white big rig that got lost at the dead end at 37th street. The big rid hit a power pole and the wires fell across both areas of 880 between high and fruit roll around 1220. He keeps trying to back out. People are telling him to make a u turn but he would not listen and tried to back out. When he backed out, he hit the pole. The truck driver left the scene. She showed the video to the chp and the Highway Patrol and Oakland Police had made contact with the driver. Both southbound and northbound driver came to a standstill where traffic is bad to begin with. Luckily this happened before the start of the rush hour and no motorists were hurt. Pg e crews removed the wires including from underneath this car on the southbound side. The c hp opened the free way at 1 40. As we come back out traffic flowing on 880 in both directions and at this point, police have contacted the driver of that big rig and unclear if charges are citatio
We have an engineer and eight textileconservator a conservator with us to talk about the tent. As you will hear many people say, it sometimes take a village to preserve these artifacts. If you have questions afterward, please feel free to grab any of us after the event. We will divide this up into three sections. I will talk about the history of the object itself and when we began to contemplate putting it on to display at the new museum of the American Revolution. Alex will talk about the engineering challenges of taking what was possibly the most historic and significant textile object since the starspangled banner has been put on display in a museum. So, to face the unique challenges of displaying this threedimensional textile object. Virginia will talk about the challenges of conserving that object and preparing it for display. The history of the engineering and conservation science to ensure the longterm reservation of this markable object. I will start with history. Where do we b
Vicki insulator another explosion near a crowded. If you vicki of the dramatic videos coming to our newsrooms of our. Pam this bill for a very tight security were looking how to attack like this could be prevented in america. Vicki guy and is tracking the latest out of 30. Reporter last at your office the third Busiest Airport to. Hundred 84 flight destinations of 113 countries not to ease airport its the World Airport part of its symbol explosions and gunfire. Surveillance cameras captured when the suicide bombers falling to the ground. After several moments people around him starts to run away and the bomb explodes into a fireball. Reporter 8 us more insight on how this attack went down its the three attack road at a taxi to the airport to gather to two of them detonated this suicide vast outside the internet terminal. Pam this is after 8 00 in the morning there in the airport reopened since the attack earlier last seen lots of cars and people going in and out things look normal but