Chosen as one of New York Times. One notable books of 2015. Professor moore teaches at the university of oxford and has lectured internationally on 18th century history. He also hosts a podcast called travels through time, which i encourage you to check out. Tonights moderator, richard cohn is the author of making history, a book that we presented in this past year in the american inspiration series. He also has written by the sword chasing the sun and how to write. Like tolstoy, the forming former publishing director of two leading publishing houses, he has edited books that have won the pulitzer the booker and many other prizes 21 books under his watchful. I have been number one bestsellers. Richards written works have appeared in the New York Times book review and in the wall street journal. He is also a fellow of Royal Society of literature. Richard will join us for the second half of our program. But to start us off, peter. Welcome to you. Peter moore. It is such a delight to have
To 100 libraries in 50 states in which we will present programs that invite the community to and about the founding era programs and issues people are talking about today. The project is founded by the National Endowment for the humanities, the largest grant awarded in the last year for which we are eternally grateful. Would tell you a few words about the institute and what we do and how we came to do this project. The Gilder Lehrman institute is rather young. It was founded in 1994. The mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American History through programs and resources. Havee present time, we 65,000 documents in the Gilder Lehrman collection which is the core of our programming. The collection is drawn upon to do programs come outreach, to contribute to a website visited by 7 million people, and also to support a network of 6500 affiliates to whom we send materials on a monthly basis, as well as teachers and seminars. It is the collection that really gives us the
Coralvilles big debt and what to do about it will be a big topic at Tonights City Council meeting. On december 9th, Moodys Investors Service downgraded the citys bond rating. Tts generally seen ap a negative reflection of the cityty financnc and can make it harder for coralville to borrow money. The bond rating dropped to the lowest rating of Investment Grade on moodys scale. The company rated coralville this way becauau of its high debtbtnd liabilities. Liabilities include things like ownership of a hotel and performance center. Coralville has about 267million dollars in debt. In iowa, ly cedar raraids and des moines both much larger cities have more debt. Coralville city Officials Say the rating will have little impact on residents. They say they expect to see the city continue to grow. While taxes do help pay off this debt, those property taxes will not increase. No, theyre not, and we have. And we have never missed a debt payment, we continue to make those payments, and we dont hav
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