This is about an hour. Okay. Its 11 00. I think we know you are excited to be here and to hear Adam Hochschild tell us about the legacy of the First World War today. Thank you for being with us over these past three days. Its been very exciting for us to see how excited and engaged history educators are. Thank you so much for that. If i didnt say it, im grace leatherman. We are loving doing this online conference with you. Its a pleasure to be with you, because really there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with than teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life from high school, from college and also people who are involved in teaching public history by working in museums, historical sites and so forth. All that has had a huge influence on my life. I dont think i would be writing History Today were it not for two very good history teachers that i had when i was in high school. Let me tell you a little bit about how i came to the subject t
Site. Your thoughts are important to us so please take a couple of minutes to fill one out and submit it to the festival committee. Mr. Mccutcheon and mr. Mark will be signing books immediately after this presentation, copies are also available at the politics and prose tent at the festival here. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event and we want to keep it that way it does help the book festival if you buy a book here. The more books we sell for our events the more publishers will want to send their authors to speak with us, and purchasing books from politics and prose benefits the local economy, supports jobs and the book festival. So if you enjoy the program and youre in the position to do so, please purchase a book. Mr. Mccutcheon is the coauthor of the 2012 and 2014 editions of National Journals almanac of american politics and was coeditor of Congressional Quarterlys politics in america 2010. Mr. Mark is a former Senior Editor at politico and political
And books during a career that can attest to the breadth of his passes and his profound curiosity including one that will examined americas greatness and its flaws. I am not a pass fist. I dont believe in the dismantling of the military improvise. I spoke at the 6th synagogue. Welcome to al jazeera . Pleasure. To write the story of the juice, to write the to write the story of the jews, 5700plus years of memory. Right. People who hold fast . Its called chuzpah. On . When the bbc said we would like to do the story of the jews, i thought, you know, how many years have we got left . You cant not do this. Partly because jewish history for people who are not jewish tends to be so overwhelmingly dominated by the holocaust and the israelipalestinian conflict, those rightly exorcise the world but they in some way close off the accessibility of jewish history, a rich and complicated and not always horribly tearful story as one might manual. So here is the possibility and i think even the possib
Hoffman back to life. Lined say moran is an analyst. She is showing us the Virtual Reality that may bring peace to our traumatized war vets. I am phil torres, an entymologist. Lets do some science. Welcome to techknow. You guys have some very fascinating stories today. Rita, lets start with you. As a society, we have really started to value where our food comes from. We dont always think about whats happening in the process specifically how our food is picked. I got the checkouts and innovations in agriculture that are taking robots out of the lab into the fields and it might mean in the not too distance future you are eating food picked not by a human hand but by a robot. Lets check it out. Do you eat strawberries a lot when you are here. I do and for breakfast. The terri family has been farming in ventura county, california since 1890. The world has changed dramatically since then. One hasnt. In 1969 we put a man on the moon but brought him back safely but we are harvesting a strawbe
And books during a career that can attest to the breadth of his passes and his profound curiosity including one that will examined americas greatness and its flaws. I am not a pass fist. I dont believe in the dismantling of the military improvise. I spoke at the 6th synagogue. Welcome to al jazeera . Pleasure. To write the story of the juice, to write the to write the story of the jews, 5700plus years of memory. Right. People who hold fast . Its called chuzpah. On . When the bbc said we would like to do the story of the jews, i thought, you know, how many years have we got left . You cant not do this. Partly because jewish history for people who are not jewish tends to be so overwhelmingly dominated by the holocaust and the israelipalestinian conflict, those rightly exorcise the world but they in some way close off the accessibility of jewish history, a rich and complicated and not always horribly tearful story as one might manual. So here is the possibility and i think even the possib