Our next speaker Elizabeth Brown pryor burst onto the scene in 2007 with the publication of reading the man, a portrait of robert e. Lee through his private lettersle. The book received eventually every prize in the world i think elizabeth, the lincoln prize, our Jefferson Davis award, the richard b. Harwell book award and the Richard Slatten award for excellence in virginia biography. I personally had the opportunity to read aloud an expert from an uncorrected proof of that book standing at this podium during the introduction of our 2007 simple pose yum about robert e. Lee. A sanchez often true, there is a story behind elizabeths emergence as a major civil war historian. She earned an m. A. In history from the university of pennsylvania studying withdrew gilpin faust, the now the president of Harvard University and i must tell a story about drew. When she was made the president of harvard people were sayingment is this an unbelievable, she is the first female to be the president of ha
Want to capture, you take it off of your wrist and it is simple. It will expand and be as easy as gesturing. It is completely autonomous. There is no remote required. There is a direction and it will stay close. If you throw it, it will go further away. It is completely autonomous. David cameron takes questions from the house of commons, followed by an election preview. After that, a Senate Hearing on treatment for alzheimers. David cameron answered questions from members of the coalition ahead of the general election. Cameron announced his next turn would be his last. This is 35 minutes. Thank you mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker i know the whole house will wish to join me in offering our deepest condolences to the family and friends of all those killed in yesterdays airbus crash in france. It is heart breaking to hear about the schoolchildren, the baby, the families whose lives have been brought to an end. As the foreign there were british nationals involved. Three have been identified. The
Way toward the lounge. What are you talking about . Erik this was the night before the lusitania was torpedoed. The next day, the ship was going to enter the socalled zone of war declared by the german navy. The water surrounding the u. K. Had been designated as a zone of war. The night before, captain turner was going into the lounge to talk to passengers during the intermission for the nightly talent show, one of the features of transatlantic voyages. He had some sobering news, but also some comforting news. He wanted to, first let everyone know that they were entering the war zone the next day, but the good news was that he said that they would be comfortably under the protection of the british navy. The royal navy. Brian and where they . Erik no, it turns out they werent at all. Brian and this is 1915 . What is going on in the world . Erik what is going on in the world is war. America is not in the war. The war broke out in august of 1914 and very quickly the war has proven to the
White house, and you will see that wilson, you kno and you will see that wilson even when he was a College Professor and College President , his real concern, having been relatively poor ministers on force to lever the Playing Field onomally and socially so when heet white house the real through line of the new freedom is a very Progressive Agenda was about introducme teardown big business, that was. What he really wanted to do was give every american the opportunity to get ahead. After the civil war has inevitably happens in many countries after wars, the desire for a change in leadership and in this case they got a very drastic change, warren harding, a conservative, a very republican agenda that tried to undo most of Woodrow Wilsons thinking and his agenda. A friend of mine is reading wilson and she says with in the first ten to fifteen pages she basically learned Woodrow Wilson was a sex addict. I wouldnt say he was a sex addict. You withheld the american. That he was passionate an
Good was it all . And churchill looked at him unbelieving. World war ii had destroyed n churchills mind, hitler and mussolini and the dictators. It had saved democracy, it had saved western civilization, so cur chill thought. And kennedy blazed hatred at him. Booktv is the only National Television network devoted exclusively to nonfiction books every weekend, and this fall were marking 15 years of booktv on cspan2. Here are some programs to watch this weekend on booktv. At 3 45 p. M. Eastern, juanita patience moss talks about the forgotten black soldiers and white regiment during the civil war. Tomorrow at noon well be live with representative john lewis for three hours. The congressman will be taking your calls, emails, tweets and facebook posts. Then at 5 p. M. Eastern, booktv brings you some books on iran. Visit booktv. Org for a complete television schedule. Pulitzer prizewinning biographer a. Scott berg presents his book, wilson. This 45minute presentation aired during the Nationa