To submit your questions and ill try to get to them as many of them as time allows. Medicares is retired physician geneticist. The other madisons is a first book and a follows a newly 30 your quest. Its been called roots for a new generation. Thank you for being with us. Very happy to be part of this program. Most of us grew up thinking of James Madison as the fourth president , one of the founders of our country, wrote the first draft of the u. S. Constitution and bill of rights. What did you think or what we you told about him growing up . I was told mostly what everyone else was. As you said, this important figure of American History. But i was also told that he was my great, great, great great grandfather through his relationship with one of his enslaved cooks. So he was one of my ancestors. And remind us of this. You are a madison. You come from african slaves and a president. What did that mean to you as a child . To me it set some clear expectations of it was intended to be forc
Person whose name is on the show,michelle me out. Thank you so much john. Welcome to the michelle me out show. It is your a through z covering the lgbt and everyone in between. Our special guest is the founder of the free radical project, a Global Network of former extremists who were the radicalizing others, trying to lead the movement by providing counseling. Hes an and in any Award Winning producer, proud father of two and an author and here to talk about his new book breaking hate confronting the new culture of extremism is christian picciolini. Welcome to the show. [applause] so this book and its your second book and wow, i flew through the 200 pages so quickly, like a hungry child afterschool. Unand because i was just craving some of this truth but before we dive into all these truths the book does share stories from other individuals that you encounter whether direct or indirect and through your work. I think we should start with telling your story and how that encounter with cl
To museums and Historic Sites as we learn about the history of the city and surrounding area. The cspan cities to her, taking you on the road toys for the american story. Host good evening everyone we are happy youre here tonight. We are very happy to have megan here with a new book, their three quarter, the union the confederacy native peoples in the site for the west. This is an engrossing narrative account which shows the civil war, the indian wars, and western expansion, were all interconnected. The 1860s were truly at times, National Conflict which involve not only the more pleasant south but also the american west. Her primary Source Research involved letters and diaries, military records and oral histories and photographs and maps from that time and nestor i specifically about nine individuals who worked towards it selfdetermination and fight for control of the region. Some of these people are generally well known to us like frontier carson. Others, like wanting to a navajo late
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Here they can be part of the cultural life of new york city and people like you and me can come and be informed, energized and engaged by scientific ideas and discoveries. And interact directly also with some of the scientists. Secret science club regular hangout in brooklyn in the gowanus part of brooklyn but secret science club north we are back here tonight in manhattan as part of our fifth miniseries here at symphony space. We like to thank all the people at symphony space, the staff, particularly kathy landau, johanna thompson, rebecca white, mary mead, james lutz on zach and ricky for helping us to expand our university and we hope yours also. [applause] a very big special thank you to the park dahlia, we have the bar to the back and left if you havent visited yet. Theyve concocted our cocktail individual or however you say it. Its called the atlantis. Its a fabulous blue glowing drink. Its named for the Space Shuttles on which our speaker was a crewmember. And its very tasty. We