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They gavel it is session saturday morning and ten eastern. Watch the debate live on cspan good evening. Every saturday night throughout the summer, book tv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of hard twisted on binge watching. Tonight teacherg author is historian David Mccullough for it is author of a dozen books including bestselling histories, on the american revolutions, and the invention of mans spacefligh for some ofe Northwest Territory in the creation of the brooklyn bridge. Hes a two time winner about Pulitzer Prize and the National Book of board and his appearance he over 75 times. And coming up over the next several hours, we will show you some of those programs. S. First up in 1992, they appear on cspans program to talk about his ....
Effort to bring the Natural World and the man made world into harmony. To bring order, usefulness and delight to our whole environment, and that only begins with trees and flowers and landscapes. Thats from a film created by the johnson administration, with a deeper johnson talking about beautification, her signature issue as first lady. She was a natural campaign, or successful businesswoman and a savvy political partner, are 36 president , lyndon bains johnson. Good evening, welcome to cspans first ladies. Well tell you the story of Claudia Taylor johnston, also known as ladybird. Our two guests are cokie roberts, the host of womens political history, thanks for being here. Betty boyd caroli is the author of numerous books about first ladies, and is working on a new autobiography of labor johnson. Lets start with where we were 50 years ago. What are the immediate challenges ....
Extensive manuscript collections largely comprised of the correspondences and the diaries and the manuscripts speeches, legal and business papers of both senior and junior president adams as well as all the members of this preeminent political dynasty. These documents remain so vital in the efforts to understand the evolution of american democracy, diplomacy and identity. They strive to make the papers and the entire 14 million item collections available to anyone with an interest in american life, culture and history and give it for free. If you value of this and enjoy y programming like todays talks and you are not a supporter, i would encourage you to do so. Tonight represents just one of many program seminars, exhibitions and workshops that we host. If you dont already have a copy, grab one on the way out and its also available on the website. I want to mention we will have copies of the democracy on sale after the program and i think we can get them signed by the authors. Now it i ....
Thank you. Welcome. Good afternoon britt and catherine, president of the Massachusetts Historical Society and i am so happy you could be here with us today as we welcome to celebrated historians as they present their coauthored book, and one. The problem of democracy doubtless, many of you here in this room know mhs is home to the adams family papers and an extensive collection largely comprised of correspondences, letters, books, diaries, literary manuscripts, speeches, legal and business papers of both the senior and junior president s adams as well as all the members of this preeminent political dynasty. These documents remain so vital in our efforts to understand the evolution of american democracy, diplomacy and identity. Mhs strives to make the adams papers and our entire 40 million item collection available to anyone with an interest in american life, culture and history and we do it for free. If you have ....