On just that focus on the website. Well her first from elizabeth varon about some of the stories that this project has revealed and then well turn to will kurtz to learn more about the website itself. So with that i am pleased to introduce my colleague elizabeth warren. Professor veron is the langborn em williams professional professor of american history and a member of the now centers executive council. Her books include a biography of Union Spy Elizabeth Van Lu and an account of lees surrender to grant at appomattox her most recent book armies of deliverance a new history of the civil war when the 2020 Guilderleman Lincoln Prize and was named one of Wall Street one of the Wall Street journals best books of 2020. Please join me in welcoming professor van. Thanks so much. So in the summer of 1887 the Cleveland Gazette leading black newspaper of the late 19th century published a Feature Story on prominent clergyman who had triumphed over the barriers of Slavery And Prejudice as a paper
University. The notion is this our university should be empowered to look in the mirror and be honest with herself, we use it in a way of talking with leadership and talking about our society that institutions that are healthy and secure and should be willing to recognize whatever is going well and to be willing to say that we have a way to go. Its empowered to be honest with itself. In the subtitle which is shared leadership, culture change in academic success starts with the notion its not about one person, is not just about the University President , its about all of us working together with the vision of educating students, that is the notion of empowerment. I found the subtitle interesting because if you look at the cover of the book, you dont have one listed higher than the other or greater priority, you really have them almost laid out as a circle that we all rely on each other. Thats exactly right. Why was that you really tell important stories in this word the university is ne
Today, or he plans to sign an executive order on medicare. We will have live coverage on cspan starting at 1 10 eastern. We are joined by tom , he covered mike pence in the statehouse at indiana. For the associated press, fort cnn and the indianapolis cnn and the indianapolis star. What made you write a profile for the Vice President . Guest i was standing outside the u. S. Senate chamber right after the 2016 election, doing what we always do, shacking quotes firm senators, from senators, tracking them down before they run to the subway. I was looking at the marble bus. Out of all the Vice President , because they are the presiding officers of the chamber, i was like mike pence is in history. Marbleill be a chiseled bust of mike pence here. I have to go deep on this guy. I never understood him when i was covering him daytoday. Talking to other reporters, they said the same thing. I had to pull back, try to go deep and understand his faith in a real way. Outside of the politics. And, th
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the knew see yums knight tved studio and another edition of inside media. As the 2020 president ial election rapidly starts to invade our daily news feed and with joe bidens announcement fueling the fire this week, what better time to looking back at the history of the presidency and to examine the character and dignity of the men who have held the office. We dive in deep to that topic today as we discuss new cspan book, the president s noted historians rank americas best and worst chief executives. The title tells it all, and in just a moment youll be hearing from susan swain, coceo of cspan, who will discuss how the book came together based on its historians survey off president ial leadership. Following susans presentation, i have the distinct privilege of speaking with brian lamb, the founding ceo and chairman of cspan, who over the course of many years conducted the interviews with president ial historians that make up the conte
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