the executive director of james monroe s home, highland, and she has been the executive director there since 2012. i see that the college of william and mary has moved into their backyard because highland is a department of the college of william and mary. prior to assuming the leadership at highland, she worked as archaeological research manager at monticello down the road from 1999-2012, so she has been on that road for a long time. when i was in law school, i lived on brown mountain, so i know the area very well. she earned her ba magna cum laude from the university of arizona, then headed east and did her phd at the university of north carolina chapel hill, and she has also taught at chapel hill in the university of virginia, so we are delighted this afternoon to have sara bon-harper, executive director of highland. [applause] sara bon-harper: what a warm welcome. thank you. it is a pleasure to be here and a pleasure to be on this lineup and a group that knows so much abo
more than 50,000 security personnel are being deployed across france after the killing of a police officer in paris as the french prepare to vote in the first round of the country s presidential election. terrorism dominated the final day of campaigning. security has been increased before polls in mainland france open tomorrow. karin giannone is in paris for us. saturday market getting on the way and the boulevard but the background to this is anything but normal. the background to the whole election itself. 50 , 000 background to the whole election itself. 50,000 security personnel deployed across france to reassure people that it is safe to come out and vote in the first round of sunday s presidential election. 0n everyone‘s main tier, which the security right to the top of the political agenda, the attack on thursday night which left one policeman dead on the champs elysees just a couple of miles from where we are. this report. the french prepare for an election organise
lasted for five hours, counted 165 bodies. the battle lasted forfive hours, and counted 165 bodies. the battle lasted for five hours, and today dozens lasted for five hours, and today d oze ns of lasted for five hours, and today dozens of injured soldiers were being treated in a local hospital. translation: when i came out of the mosque after prayers, three people with army uniforms and an army vehicle started shooting at us. the taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack and issued this picture of the men it claims were behind it, ten are now dead, one was ca ptu red behind it, ten are now dead, one was captured alive. the assault on the army base is a shocking reminder of just how tough the ongoing battle in afghanistan is. last month in afghan special forces helicopter landed on top of the military hospital in kabul after it was stormed by gunmen disguised as doctors. about 50 people died in that attack. two and a half yea rs people died in that attack. two and a ha
so i m going to tell some stories, and you oregonians may know some of the stories, and you may not know others. but i ll start with how i came to this story. and, actually, what s surprising about it is how this story was very well known in its day. in 1836 when washington irving was commissioned by john jacob astor to write the story of these events 20 years after they occurred, irving s book, also called astoria, was a best seller of 1836. and those events have been largely forgotten in the american consciousness. i think you in oregon know a little bit more about them or i m sure some of you know a lot more about them. but in the national consciousness, they re largely forgotten, except among historians and people who really follow western history. so it is a really important story. it s historically significant, and it s a great adventure story. and that s partly what attracted me to it. and it s also a story that i feel needs to be told because those events have had a b
blum, an investigative journalist and author of the new new york times best-seller become become as well as many other great books. he is currently a contributing editor at vanity fair. while at the new york times he was twice nominated for a pulitzer prize for investigative reporting. several of his books were non-fiction best sellers including, among others i pledge allegiance, the true story of the walkers, an american spy family that was turned into a great mini series on cbs, perhaps some of you watched it in the past. gang land how the fbi broke the mob in 1993. the eve of destruction. the untold story of the yom kippur war in 2003. american lightning terror of mystery and the birth of hollywood and the crime of the century in 2008. a floor of heaven, a true tale of the last frontier and the yukon gold rush in 2011. i should also mention that warner brothers is preparing a film of dark invasion starring bradley cooper as tom, the hero of the book. pleas