Guitar player. But, rob, the show is yours. Thank you, jeremy. Now the whole world. Im happy. Its great to be with john and neil barr, two really outstanding scholars on the history of great battles in World War ii, as well as some other things. The theme for this get together, this final session, as jeremy says, weve been rocking in the free world now for two straight days and its time to bring the conference to a close. We wanted to go out with a bang and we thought a good way to end would be with this concept that is so beloved of military historians called Turning Points. Now, before i introduce the two principle speakers, let me say i have experience in this field as well. A few years ago, i wrote a book which is about the battle of stalingrad and you dont need to know a whole lot of World War ii to know that many people consider stalingrad to be the Turning Point of the war. Im not sure im one of those people. Im dubious of the concept of Turning Point and i wrote the book very c
States center for the humanities and the founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard. Chris is an expert on the early parts of the 20th century. Of course, hes expanding and he and i were chatting about newark he has coming out on ideologies and u. S. Foreign policy. That book itself, that term, that title, was a seminal book in the field in 1987. Im glad that someone has decided to go in and updated shall we say. Theres no better person to do it than chris. He will be talking to us about the 1918 pandemic. I would encourage you as you look at your zoom screen, on the bottom you will see a cue and a button. Please hit that button and submit your questions. In fact, you can see other peoples questions as they come in. If you like theyre question or if you are going to ask a similar question, just hit the thumbs up button. That will actually be helpful because it moves it up the cute. The more people who like something, the higher it gets in life. Just
Whatever gadgets you may have. So they dont interfere with our system here. Thank you, now, as you know warehouse tonight is Justice Sonia sotomayor, we are very pleased to have the justice with those tonight. I want to thank her on behalf of the society for giving her time, when we call upon her to participate in events like this. Because its quite important to us, and quite important to you. And we marry much appreciate it. Ill tell you briefly a little bit about the justice. She is a native new yorker, born in the bronx, very unhappy about last nights baseball game i guess, the boston red sox. She did her undergraduate work at princeton, and then to yell last school. Then joined the District Attorney in new york county, as an assistant District Attorney. After several years there in private practice in new york she was a litigator in the International Commercial law. That attracted attention and before long she had become a Federal District judge on the Southern District of new york
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