Lock for these look for these titles in bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on cspan2. And so now im very please today introduce tonights author presenting his acclaimed new book, the book that changed america. Randall fuller works at the university of tulsa as well as the author of from battlefields rising. His work has appeared in the new york times, the wall street journal and other publications. Professor fuller is a winner of phi beta kappas award for best literary criticism. The book that changed america how darwins theory of evolution ignited a nation, explores how five luminaries gained new perspectives on the origin of the species in the leadup to the civil war. Thank you very much for the nice introduction. Thanks for coming out on what to oklahoma feels like a chilly night. I realize it is not really that cold. I am really glad to have been invited by the harvard bookstore. I have spent many hours over my professional li
N our panel. [applaus [applause]. A reminder if you missed any of this conference you can watch it online in the video library. Tonight on cspan2, we have been featuring booktv beginning at 8. Tonight, authors featured on after word will be with us. Tonight, beginning at 8 p. M. Eastern here on cspan2. Yesterday, marked 30 years of gavel to gavel senate floor coverage on cspan2. Our special program featured video from the senate floor going back to the first televised session. Here is a look the senate is trying to make the best use of the technology in the 21st century to remain true. It is difficult to forge compromise. Everybody has to give and that is not photogenic. This indeed is a humbling moment for me. I am honored to serve as majority leader. But i recognize the majority is slim. We have witnessed something that never happened before in senate history. The change of power during a session of congress. Watch that entire program looking back at Televised Senate saturday at 8 p.
What impacted that have on you . Ms. Isenberg she was a very unusual person. She came to the university of wisconsin. She had to create a space for us in History Program and that she was someone who was very aware not only of gender and class and racial issues in all the things she wrote about but i think she imparted to me that you also have to understand the politics of academia and the way in which politics in general, we like to believe in america that we are free agents and we are able to sort of carver own destiny, part of our carve our own destiny part of her own destiny, but we do not always good to make the decisions that we want to. She wanted to think about the larger ways culture, politics, the law shaped the way people think even though they might not be aware of it, but to take that into account in do not just take things as given. Challenge them. See if it is really true. That is something that has really motivated me throughout my career, even when you read good history
Worlds most open economies. A Chinese State run firm will bear about onethird of the construction project led by a French Energy project. Thereeresa may she cited secy concerns because the plant would be considered critical infrastructure. Some observers warned that it could aggravate bilateral ties. In another advance to the Space Program, china is one step closer to having its own space station, an unmanned Experimental Laboratory was successfully launched on thursday. It blasted off from a facility in the gobi desert. People across china watched it on tv as they celebrated the harvest moon holiday. The space lab is an upgrade to the previous version launched in 2011. The modification allows astronauts to stay on board for an extended period of time. Its a complete success. China plans to launch a spacecraft next month to ferry two astronauts to the lab. Theyll conduct various experiments dug their 30day stay. China is beefing up its Space Program to establish itself as a space power
Worlds most open economies. A Chinese State run firm will bear about onethird of the construction project led by a French Energy project. Thereeresa may she cited secy concerns because the plant would be considered critical infrastructure. Some observers warned that it could aggravate bilateral ties. In another advance to the Space Program, china is one step closer to having its own space station, an unmanned Experimental Laboratory was successfully launched on thursday. It blasted off from a facility in the gobi desert. People across china watched it on tv as they celebrated the harvest moon holiday. The space lab is an upgrade to the previous version launched in 2011. The modification allows astronauts to stay on board for an extended period of time. Its a complete success. China plans to launch a spacecraft next month to ferry two astronauts to the lab. Theyll conduct various experiments dug their 30day stay. China is beefing up its Space Program to establish itself as a space power