Thats at 8 00 p. M. Eastern time here on cspan 3. The cspan radio app makes it easy to follow the election. Get audio coverage and up to the minute Schedule Information for cspan radio and television. Stay uptodate on all the election coverage. C spans radio app means you always have cspan on the go. Next author talks about the compromise of 1850 and the two generations of senators of the debate. Mr. Bordewich focuses on the compromise that preserved the union. The New York Historical society, Oxford University press and the Bryant Park Corporation hosts this event. Its just under 90 minutes. Can you hear me . Good evening. Thank you, paul. And were delighted at the New York Historical society to partner with the Bryant Park Corporation and Oxford Community press on this exciting series. Tonights program will be followed by question and answer session and a book signing. So please do join in for both. Im really delighted this evening to welcome author and historian fergus m. Bordewich.
Banks for coming to this southern festival of books. Were delighted to have you if you enjoyed yourself we hope he will make a donation on our website because this is a nonprofit event we would like to keep a free and open to everyone is really like your donations for that. I am delighted to introduce the professor from Vanderbilt University and specializing of the 19th and 20th century literature with the social critique to Country Music covering a wide variety of topics. In addition to her scholarly work play is welcome cecilia to the podium. [applause] they explore spending an hour to hear about jack london a name that is so familiar but in other ways unfamiliar. Some people they come of surfing with of pioneers loosely we think of the call of the wild these are books that have become classics there are reenlisted junior highs and high schools and and that is the jack london that we think we go. He went for the gold rush in 1897, he found almost as if they but but that cluster of st
[inaudible conversations] do you want to set . Good morning. My name is sharon and im a volunteer for the book festival. On behalf of the state library of louisiana and Louisiana Center of the book. I welcome you to book festival the 11th annual book festival. There will be a book signing with jim cobb afterwards in the bonds barnes noble tent. So if you want to carry on after that he will be happy to sign your books. We are happy to have with us this morning james cobb jr. Who has written flood of lies the saint regis nursing home tragedy. He was a managing partner in a firm. Cobb served as an adjunct professor at Tulane University while at the law school. And since the 80s has taught at Harvard University since 2008. He lives and practices privately in new orleans and we are pleased to introduce to you the james a. Kopp jr. [applause] thanks very much. Good morning. Its cold out there isnt it . Thank you guys for coming and braving the weather. A couple of things about my biography w
Military history professor Christopher Gabel discusses the importance of railroads and Steam Powered locomotives to the union and confederate armies and explains how railroads made the scale of the civil war possible and describes how and why the confederacys powerful Railroad System broke down as the war progressed. The Kansas City Public Library hosted this hourlong event. Thank you very much for the kind introduction and for being here. Folks, you know when we look back at the onset of the american civil war, we view it through the lens of the war, itself. That shapes what were looking at. If you view the onset of the civil war a little more objectively instead of being all seeing all of the differences between north and south, youll tend to spot all the similarities. Think about it. The two sides in this conflict. It was a war of brother against brother and in some cases literally so. The two sides shared a common language. They had similar cultures and religions. They shared a ver
Advantage for the north, maybe that statistic is not really important either. Its whether or not the railroads actually were that significant in the conduct and outcome of the civil war. And if the answer to that question is no, we can save a lot of time here tonight. Ok. Well, this is the game changer right here. Water turns to steam and expands 1600 well so what . People have known this for thousands of years. Ok . Well, in the 1820s somebody figured out how to take that expansion and turn it into forward motion. You collect excuse me you collect the steam. You send it down to a piston. The piston drives the rod back and forth. The wheels go around and around and it goes forward. All right. So what . Well, here is the so what. With a Steam Powered locomotive pulling a train, you can carry more cargo farther on the same amount of fuel than you can by muscle power. A sixmule wagon carrying 1 1 2 tons of cargo can go roughly 333 miles on one ton of mule fuel. So you multiply 1. 5 tons t