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I think of students in college as the best thing to do is to take the teacher, not the course and hear to take these incredible authors and to be in the room, whatever they are talking about. The problem with this festival is there is somebody in every room you want to be with. Douglas brinkley has written biographies of more president s than most of us have ever heard of. Other interesting things a prime focus on the space program. The great space race. Be watching for that. And hes a cnn historian. He has a little basement studio envy of jon meacham. And Margaret Macmillan is trying to make the deal with cnbc. The great historical deal one of those transformative books but so important and jon meacham has written so many wonderful biographies, former editor of newsweek. The assignment is to talk about your favorite historical figure. I want to make that a fun thing so maybe we will get into some other elements. John why dont ....
Best and worst chief executives. We hear from author rosen, Michael Gearhart and from Robert Strauss. His book is worst president ever about james buchanan. [ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center. I am Jeffrey Rosen, the president of this wonderful institution and this is such a happy day to celebrate the great collaboration between the National Constitution center and cspan. Cspan has an inspiring nonpartisan mission to bring unfiltered information about the u. S. Government to american citizens, and that coincides with the National Constitution centers mission which i now want all of you to re ....
44 states. Ladies and gentlemen, ronald reagan. Good evening. Im here tonight to announce my intention to seek the republican nomination for president of the United States. Im sure that each of us has seen our country from a number of viewpoints, depending on where weve lived and what weve done. For me, its been as a boy growing up in several small towns in illinois, as a young man in iowa, trying to get a start in the years of the Great Depression and later in california for most of my adult life. Ive seen america from the Stadium Press Box as a sportscaster, as an actor, officer of my labor union, soldier, Office Holder and as both democrat and republican. Ive lived in an america where those who often had too little to eat outnumbered others. Ive seen financial ....
Election and his defeat in 1980 by mr. Reagan. Mr. Balmer spoke at the Jimmy Carter Museum in atlanta back in 2014. Welcome. Its a pleasure for me tonight to introduce randall balmer, professor of arts and sciences at dartmouth college. I have followed his career for a long time. His under graduate work was done at a school where my father was a dean and my brother joe attended that school at the same time. And randy has turned into one of our great, modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great is he really minds the resources of president ial libraries. He really mines the resources of president ial libraries. He has come to the carter library, gone through and found very interesting documents that other people had not seen before. And he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that, he has also mined the resources of the archives on various evangelical organizations that have beco ....
By the emerging civil war blog. Good afternoon. Its my pleasure to introduce ray andrew redd, a native of washington county, pennsylvania. He holds a bachelors degree in history and english from Waynesburg University and masters degree from the Indiana University of pennsylvania. His certification is in secondary education and is also from Indiana University of pennsylvania. Holds a masters degree in Library Science from the university of pittsburgh. Hes currently the director of the library at Waynesburg University. Hes the author of the Gettysburg Campaign guide, a study guide. His essay, the point of no return is part of the ....