he took the tour and enjoyed it. he got to thinking on his way back, mobile is close to 300 years old, and he heard his family discussed a lot of the discuss about a lot of the contributions african-americans had made, so i think this is something we could do in mobile and do it well. he started looking around the city for someone to take on the opportunity of a challenge just depending upon the perspective they looked at it from. after nine months of searching, he found a young lady that said, i will take on the opportunity. her name was dora franklin finley. dora was my double first cousin. that s another tour. we won t take that one today, but she accepted the opportunity. she spent five years of her life doing research on places that african-americans had made significant contributions to the city of mobile. when she finishes, she had 39 locations throughout the city. we will visit about 20 of those today. i took you on all of them. i have to find out how you like your
said african american heritage trail. he thought it sounded interesting because it was kind of a novelty, it was prior to most of the museums we see today. he took the tour and enjoyed it. he got to thinking on his way back, mobile is close to 300 years old, and he heard his family discussed a lot of the contributions african-americans had made, so i think this is something we could do in mobile and do it well. he started looking around the city for someone to take on the opportunity of a challenge just depending upon the perspective they looked at it from. after nine months of searching, he found a young lady that said, i will take on the opportunity. her name was dora franklin finley. dora was my double first cousin. tour. another we won t take that one today, but she accepted the opportunity. she spent five years of her life doing research on places that african-americans had made significant contributions to the city of mobile. when she finishes, she had 39 locations thro
greetings, everyone. i am ellen alan clark and i am the library director for the american revolution institute and it is my special pleasure to welcome you and to introduce our speaker, dr. christy pichichero. she is the associate professor at george mason university. her talk this evening is being held in conjunction with our current exhibition revolutionary reflections french memories of the war for america, which is on view behind this fireplace. will be discussing war and the enlightenment in the context of french experiences during the american revolution. many french officers of this era, such as rochambeau, consider themselves military philosophers who brought enlightenment and philosophical spirit to their military enterprises. their experiences had a profound impact on their experiences and worldviews when they returned to france after the war. these themes are at the center of her book military war and culture in the french empire from louis the 14th to n
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essentially an economy that is ruled by power and real-time. .. and tonight s event also includes audience q&a and after that time please for the sake of the tv audience raul have a microphone here. and everyone on tv can hear you as well after the talk we ask you go that direction when the time comes and have your book signed afterwords now please give a welcome to david. [applause] thank you all for turning out here at powell s and portland are literary hotspots so how many people here in the audience have read the book themselves? half a dozen or so. i m not surprised anybody here ever thought about writing a book? [laughter] yes. that doesn t surprise me. so i will start by asking you to go along on a thought experiment. if you are pitching it to an editor i want to think about that with me. with a couple of bits of advice. and with this new york editor do not say this will be a 400 page book on molecular science. [laughter] don t even say the lighter side. i promis