Sharing their new releases. Watching the nonfiction authors on booktv is the best television for serious readers. On cspan they can have a longer conversation and delve into their subjects. Booktv weekends, they bring you author after author after author that spotlight the work of fascinating people. I love booktv and im a cspan fan. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everybody. Thank you all so much for coming out tonight for this event. I am lissa muscatine, im one of the coowners of politics prose, my husband and coowner, business partner, brad graham, is floating around in the back somewhere. And on behalf of our terrific staff, we welcome all of you to the event tonight. A few housekeeping matters, i think most of you have been to events here, but for anyone who hasnt, our guest will speak about her book x then well take questions at the end. We do record these events, we also have cspan here tonight. If you can possibly make it to the monas right here next to this pillar, we
Where is the mental thing on some of this . You dont want to irritate the some of these major powers. Where does the mental ideas come . The thinking . Far be it for me to get in the mind of what makes spy master things to convince mexico to go to war against the United States and it works, but it becomes, as always has taught us, a great deal of arrogance of people in power and they think arrogant people think they can do whatever they want. They can change the course of history. And sometimes they do. Th thank you very much. Thank you. [ applause ] youve been watching American History tv on cspan3. We want to hear from you. Follow us on Twitter Twitter cspanhistory. Connect with us on facebook at facebook. Com cspanhistory where you can leave comments and check out upcoming programs on our website at cspan. Org history. Every sunday night at 8 p. M. And midnight eastern a special look at the u. S. Presidency learning from leading historians about president s and first ladies. Their p
This is a map of new england by john smith in 1616. This is yales copy that was done in 1631. I want to pause for a moment and tell you about this map and explain what makes it so important and what makes it so valuable. We all know of john smith from the Virginia Colony down the street from here and his role in founding that and study in 1607. He had sort of a Second Chapter in his life after he was sort of drummed out of virginia for reasons that i wont go into. He started exploring this area that was then just known as north virginia with the idea of founding a new colony there. And he thought that it needed a snappier name so he came up with the name new england and john smith was actually the person who coined that term as a way to claim this territory for his home country and sort of tell the other countries, you know, this is english territory. And he also wanted to claim this territory for himself and make sure that he got credit for discovering it and that he was going to be i
Michael blanding recounted mr. Smileys career as a dealer and thief. This is about an hour. Thank you all so much for coming here this afternoon. Im not particularly pleased to be giving this talk at the National Archives wonderful repository of old books and manuscripts and the reporting of this book i became a great lover of archives, going to the institutions that smiley ended up taking rare maps out of. I got to see a lot of these old documents myself. Theres nothing like seeing an original document and being able to touch it with your fingers and see it with your own eyes. Its really a Wonderful Service that buildings like this provide and providing access to these materials. So im going to dive right in here with a reading from the e i start with the first sentence from the first chapper so theres nothing you need to know going in. Then im going to talk a little about the strange character Forbes Smiley who i got to know very well over the past three years and then show you some
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