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Items off the menu first. Todays program is just one of many exciting programs coming up here in the fall season at the National Constitution center. Next week we will tackle the question of is the constitution judeochristian which would be a great discussion. awe moderate that discussion and in just two weeks we are hosting conversation on president ial legacies with Robert Strauss author of the new book worst president ever, theories after this. James buchanan the potus game and the legacy of the least of the lesser president. That should be a, sorted again, a scholar and resident will be moderating that. He is a specialist on some of the more spirited president s. That will be a terrific discussion. Finally the complete schedule of our upcoming tom hawley event. Please visit constitution b7 work for pick up a flyer on the registration table. I also want to thank the ....
We are both very fast eaters. [laughter] we also found out that we share d a common passion for history. I am very pleased to introduce Candice Millard to you today. I am a longtime fan of her work. I think what distinguishes her work from the work of other popular historians is her rare ability to engender suspense despite the readers knowledge of the outcome. I speak from experience. When i read her first book, the river of doubt, i spent a lot of time worrying about if and how Teddy Roosevelt was ever going to get out of that brazilian jungle even though i knew that he would. The suspense was worse because i was listening to the book as i was driving the washington beltway. It was always a race to see who was going to get to the exit first, teddy or me. Reading her second book destiny the republic, i kept hoping that Ja ....
They First Experience selfacceptance. At 10 30 p. M. , government policymakers and officials talk about the 1991 act that established the process of dismantling and destroying nuclear weapons. What we found is that to the russians, the nuclear complex was not in inheritance from hell. Means fort was the the revival of a great russia. Sunday evening at 6 00, fdr president ial Library ArchivistMatthew Hansen and preservationist, christina copack, on their efforts to preserve 10 speeches. We look at the films based on signal based on significant, how often they are requested and quality of the footage. Fdr i see one third of the nation ill housed, ill clad, and ill at 8 00, history professor gil troy looks at israeli relations from president truman to president obama. I told him i would commit political suicide if i d ....
Mental illness and the rise of psychiatry from the 1940s and so the 1960s. I want to first make it clear to you that this is the same era as the era we covered when we were talking about one flew over the cuckoos nest. As you know, this is a segment in the class that talks about two different approaches to Mental Illness. One was the treatment that we saw a lot of in the film and in the book, and also psychotic treatments that we actually started to think about and when about just a few weeks ago. We looked at how in the hospital they were in men and women treated differently because of their presumed sexual orientation, or problematic behavior based on societal expectations on how a woman should act. We talked about that and that is something they actively used, the therapeutic treatments, not the traditional analysis. We also looked at maybe you are familiar with Harry St ....
Mental illness and the rise of psychiatry from the 1940s and so the 1960s. I want to first make it clear to you that this is the same era as the era we covered when we were talking about one flew over the cuckoos nest. As you know, this is a segment in the class that talks about two different approaches to Mental Illness. One was the treatment that we saw a lot of in the film and in the book, and also psychotic treatments that we actually started to think about and when about just a few weeks ago. We looked at how in the hospital they were in men and women treated differently because of their presumed sexual orientation, or problematic behavior based on societal expectations on how a woman should act. We talked about that and that is something they actively used, the therapeutic treatments, not the traditional analysis. We also looked at maybe you are familiar with Harry St ....