Its our pleasure to introintroduce our speaker. I sat at the library my name is catherine katz. My last class at harvard and reading this article for my course on the British Empire was my last assignment. In it, he described his childhood realization that he was growing up in an era of an ending, that his was a generation that hung by its finger ends on the coat tail of the British Empire. The upon yant words resinated deeply that night as i reflected on the end of my journey at harvard. More importantly, across the bridge from childhood to adulthood. And there in the middle of the library i began to cry. I finally met in person last year at the church hill Center Leadership awards dinner in new york. Since then hes rescued me on two particularly frustrated spreadsheet sfiled days with chilling conversations for which im most grateful. And fortunate to know him not only as a world class scholar, but also as a tremendous listener, adviser and wisdom. So david is the dodge professor of
Dinner the next morning i would have my last class at harvard and reading this article for my course on the British Empire was my last assignment. In it, he described his childhood realization that he was growing up in an era of an ending, that his was a generation that hung by its finger ends on the coat tail of the British Empire. The upon yant words resinated deeply that night as i reflected on the end of my journey at harvard. More importantly, across the bridge from childhood to adulthood. And there in the middle of the library i began to cry. I finally met in person last year at the church hill Center Leadership awards dinner in new york. Since then hes rescued me on two particularly frustrated spreadsheet sfiled days with chilling conversations for which im most grateful. And fortunate to know him not only as a world class scholar, but also as a tremendous listener, adviser and wisdom. So david is the dodge professor of history at Princeton University having previously taught at
Its our pleasure to introintroduce our speaker. I sat at the library after dinner the next morning i would have my last class at harvard and reading this article for my course on the British Empire was my last assignment. In it, he described his childhood realization that he was growing up in an era of an ending, that his was a generation that hung by its finger ends on the coat tail of the British Empire. The upon yant words resinated deeply that night as i reflected on the end of my journey at harvard. More importantly, across the bridge from childhood to adulthood. And there in the middle of the library i began to cry. I finally met in person last year at the church hill Center Leadership awards dinner in new york. Since then hes rescued me on two particularly frustrated spreadsheet sfiled days with chilling conversations for which im most grateful. And fortunate to know him not only as a world class scholar, but also as a tremendous listener, adviser and wisdom. So david is the dod
Its our pleasure to introintroduce our speaker. I sat at the library after dinner the next morning i would have my last class at harvard and reading this article for my course on the British Empire was my last assignment. In it, he described his childhood realization that he was growing up in an era of an ending, that his was a generation that hung by its finger ends on the coat tail of the British Empire. The upon yant words resinated deeply that night as i reflected on the end of my journey at harvard. More importantly, across the bridge from childhood to adulthood. And there in the middle of the library i began to cry. I finally met in person last year at the church hill Center Leadership awards dinner in new york. Since then hes rescued me on two particularly frustrated spreadsheet sfiled days with chilling conversations for which im most grateful. And fortunate to know him not only as a world class scholar, but also as a tremendous listener, adviser and wisdom. So david is the dod
Ho a the gun that built an american dynasty. We are having this talk taped by cspan. During question and answer if you can step to the microphone in the middle and speak loud and clear to it, that would be fantastic. Laura has worked for the bbc since 1993 reporting for radio and television programs. Vi her first book a very british family, chronicles for engine luish roots. Tonight we are exciteed for her to share her american roots. Are you a weeks ago during a lantern tour i gave a tour around the site. I would not have known was his simple tombstone meant. Oliver and his family have also buried in evergreen. Its time for his great, great grandfather to share for about the win chester. [applause] amy, thank you so much and thank you to all of you for being here. I cant tell you how touch i am that you are here listening to me talk about what i thought was a pet project. Im thrilled to see that it has a wide audience and thank you to c span. When i was a congressional intern i watche