Influenced her work and how it formed her view of german citizens during world war ii. It was hosted by the World War Ii Museum in new orleans. Welcome back. This next session is a unique one for our conference. For those who come here regularly, youre used to seeing the biggest and brightest minds in the field of world war ii history. This normally means the bestselling authors of history books, leading professors, dotcomtarians, but when we were planning this years program, we decided to mix it up by inviting a novelist and only the second one that weve hosted in the conferences for the entire time weve been doing these. Don miller is also one of our longeststanding advisers and counselors. Hes a conference press. Hes also like we heard from Rick Atkinson this morning, hes looking into another time period in our important period in our history and will be soon coming out this october with vicksburg grants campaign that broke the confederatety. When the committee decided on this idea
American history tv on cspan3 every saturday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. The u. S. Capitol has been home to the house and senate since 1800. But it is their home districts and states that send members to washington, d. C. Over the next 90 minutes, a look at pivotal u. S. Politicians as we travel the nation in search of their stories. Coming up first, u. S. Congressman and senator, former wisconsin governor, and 1924 Progressive Party president ial candidate, robert fighting bob lafollette. There is work for everyone. It is large. It is a glorious service. This service for the country, the call comes to every citizen. It is an unending struggle to make and keep government representative. Bob is probably the most important political figure in wisconsin history, and one of the most important in the history of the 20th century in the United States. He was a reforming governor he defined what progressivism
Morning . Thanks for giving us that beautiful shot. Thank you so much for joining us on a saturday morning. Im kira klapper. Vianey arana has your microclimate forecast. I havent seen you since. Yeah, it was just me and my boyfriend hanging out. It was cozy inside and as it should have been because it was cold. Right . Its cold right now. Were officially below freezing in the north bay. Fairfax right now is at 28 degrees. That is so cold, can you imagine the patchy frost out there, expect to see it on some wind shields because even in san jose, 34 degrees right now. The winds are light, not really a factor but its so clear. Were not seeing any clouds in sight. Look at how beautiful San Francisco is waking up. 46 degrees. Got nice pink hues overlooking the skyline there. Heres a closer look at what we are monitoring for this weekend. Also heading into the workweek. Dry pattern continues. Full forecast coming up in a few minutes. Wow. Below freezing in the north bay. Thanks so much. A fa
Im looking forward. Its not too far away from virginia tech. Looking forward to having dr. Joins dr. Jones. Hes an expert in a civil war era history. Especially in Civil War Veterans with opiate addiction. Phd athe subject of a binghamton university, also published a recent article in the journal of the civil war era. Hes worked on a book on the topic. This is his topic. He knows it better than anyone. We are fortunate to be the subject of his talks. He will speak for about 35 minutes, so we will have plenty of time for discussion at the end. Inay you can engage discussions with dr. Jones is pretty q and a future. Onwont be able to turn cameras or microphones of the attendees. We will do everything through the chat box. Type in your question, and we will see it and hopefully be able to get to all of the questions. We will wrap up around 8 15. You can ask a question at any time. If something occurs during the talk, we can you can type it in and we will respond to them as we are able. Th
Civilians flee the Northern Region as the deadline for local forces to surrender expires. The governments message to the outside world will handle this crisis on our own. Welcome to the show. One of the greatest Football Players ever to have graced the pitch is with us no more argentinian superstar. Diego armando maradona, died on wednesday after suffering a heart attack at only 60 years of age. He was revered around the world and worshiped and his home country. Ever since he kept and argentina to world cup victory in 1906, lets take a look back at his life, a life of extremes, full of ups and downs, his doctorate aside. This is the last public photo of diego, armando dawna, after a successful brain operation, early november, hed been visibly ill for some time. He was the coach for a top argentinian team, but the 60 year old was having trouble staying on his feet. Marathon i grew up in a poll suburb of corn as it is. His rise to stardom was b. T. R. His goals spectacular. The striker w