Presidencpresident s into the bos featured historians, visit cspan. Org the president s available in paperback, hardback and ebook, wherever books are sold. Welcome to the program supposed to be cosponsored by the university of history. My name is jim andsign presidenand im president of theg important books in American History which 18th century volumes behind me or current important books by some of the major prizewinning historians in the country. William roka at the institute most recently on the Hamilton Education program, william will present the historians and then died the question and answer session towards the end. Other programs sponsored by lehrman. Good afternoon everyone is welcome to the Gilder Lehrman book break here on june 14. Welcome, everyone. Todays guest will be professor Elizabeth Varon in her book, armies of deliverance. For those that are not familiar with the Gilder Lehrman institute, first welcome. We are so glad you could join us. To tell you just a little bi
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A historian at the museum asking about the new book the women with silver wings thank you for joining us today and i thank you for having me. She has a great stream photo photos. Lets see if i can figure this out. This will just roll its nothing specific. This is a wonderful new book from april 21st document back is associate perversity at coincidentally and that is home of the archive. And then im sure she will talk about her journey getting the book to publication. How did you get started on this topic . Thats a great question. That this is that moment in time and thats her with all the aviation people curtis is one of the coolest airplanes ever. That in june 1993 and somebody pointed out that curtis was in the shade of the hanger over there. I said i will go say hello. So as a champion of the 1951. And also in world war ii. Ive never heard of any of them. So hasnt one of my friends said i just decided that was wrong. These were incredible and did a lot of great things and flying dur
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Reat are you learning . Reporter do and jim, an extremely sad development. Police just confirmed a short time ago a juvenile is now dead, and a man in the hospital after both were trapped in a ditch at a construction accident. I want to give you a l tk at construction scene behind me. There it is over there. Asappears to be an empty lot of now, possibly for a new home. Police tell me the child and the adult were doing work here at the construction site when both of them got stuck in a ditch and had to be pulled out by First Responders. Now the adult is expected to be okay. The juvenile did die shortly after. Now you can see the construction sion is set up a slope. I spoke to a neighbor a short time ago who told me he had walked by the site and he wasco erned because of the recent rape, and he felt like some of the ground there looked unstable. Now its unclear how old the wa juvenile who was killed. Police say privacy laws prevent them from saying, a and keep in mindto according virgini