Public library. Im pleased to be hosting the first book festival event. I am thrilled to be kicking off this festival. Its my honor to introduce three people to you. The first is roger rosenblatts work has been polished in 14 languages. The author of five New York Times books of the year end three times bestseller the boy detective and making toast which was originally an essay in the new yorker. The story i am, a collection i am writing that came out in april, life, love and response ability will be out in october. Rogers also written seven, notably the one person speech in america that he performed at the American Theater which was named one of times and best of 1991. Last spring in santa barbara, he performed in the basement, he does nothing which will go to the centers for the arts at stony brook new york next year. He also wrote the screenplay for his bestselling novel, the uprising which will start doctor channing and bobby and his currently in production. Margaret is of rider at
Remembered for killing treasury secretary Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Recounting his political rise and downfall. This was recorded at the gallery of art in washington, d. C. In 201 2012. Thank you for having me back. Im delighted to speak here. I always like to speak in washington, where the audiences are well informed and engaged, but having just finished teaching a semester and for the year at the university of texas, im always delighted to speak to an audience of people who dont have to be here. There will be no test. I say this sincerely. Im very flattered that you took the time and took your evening to come listen to me. And i try to i think that my student, by and large, are interested in the subject but i know perfectly well that if they didnt have tests, if they didnt have papers, that they werent held accountable, then most of the seats would be empty. So none of you have to be here, but you did come. I find that to be very flattering. I could, i suppose, give you a test at
Let me introduce our first guest. He is the director americas of the u. S. Monitor center in newport news, and im sure many of you have been there, if you have not, you need to go, its an amazing collection of material that they have there. Hes the author of 17 books, to that would be interesting to all of you is the csis virginia, sink before surrender, and the monitor voice, the core of the union first. He has received many awards, including the National Trust for president award for Historic Preservation and many others. His top today is the ship that save the nation, please welcome mr. Quarstein. Thank you. On march 8, 1862, there was a terrible day for the union. It turned the tide in favor of the confederacy when the css virginia emerged from the Elizabeth River and sunk two major union warships. The cumberland and the congress. The union navy was in disarray, people were in the white house looking out the curtains, down the potomac, fearing this super weapon, as they would call
Our speaker is smith. She has worked since november 2 thousand. Previous work experience, festivity Document Department supervisor at university of denver and archiver for u. S. Forest service in montana. Masters in history from Colorado State university. And mlis from university of denver. Taught workshops on ethics and copyright law. With society of Rocky Mountain archivists. And it has been president of the society, secretary of the academy of archivists, and collected great photos and videos and audio files to share with us from hoovers Funeral Services in 1964. He died october 20, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Brad. Also want to make note this marks the second year of the third thursdays im happy to be parts of launching what will be next year. Also a note this coming october 27, is world day for audio visual heritage, a Key Initiative of coordinating counsel of audio visual archives. In that spirit, was able to putua together a very video, visual, production of what happen
Ken and lynn have made a new tv series about the vietnam war, we talked to them about the program on the washington journal, this is 40 minutes. Nu joining us now or can burns and ling, the vietnam war which airs on sunday, thank you for coming on the program a lot of stuff and information have come out with the vietnam war, why do you think your version was needed out there. I think will be constantly but unfortunately we have spent more so the last 42 years not discussing it. Theres been so much new information, veterans are coming forward with their story and people involved are coming does, forward. What i think it does is aggregate the most recent scholarship and speak to the veterans of the United States and we have no political agenda, but also interview people in North Vietnam and civilians and soldiers to get a 360 view of it and create a space where we cane finally find a way to do it. Fortunately we had an underwriter at bank of america o that was willing to say we want you