This week on q a author and Senior Advisor for baseball operations for the boston soiks is bill james. Mr. James talks about his book the man from the train the solving of the centuryold erial killer mystery. Host bill james, the man from the train your first sentence i have long been fascinated that knowledge can be created about the past. Tell us more about that. Bill the easiest example is dinosaurs. For thousands of years people didnt know these great beasts had ever existed. Now we have not only created an information about them but its so widely that every 4yearold child has a collection of little plastic dinosaurs. Much of what academics do is create is sort out the conflicts of what was said at the time to create a detail and more accurate picture of the past so we know things about the romans that the romans didnt know. We know things about baseball in the 1960s that the Baseball Players of the 1960s didnt know. Host when did you know you wanted to write this particular ook .
Tells more about that tell us more about that. Bill the easiest example is dinosaurs. For thousands of years people had no idea that these great beasts had ever existed. Now we have not only created information about them, but disseminated it so widely that every four euro child every for your old child has a collection of little plastic dinosaurs. Ist of what academics do sort out the conflicts of what was said at the time to create a clearer and more detailed and accurate picture of the past so that we know things about the romans that the romans didnt know. We know things about baseball and the 1960s that the Baseball Players in the 1960s did not know. Brian when did you know you wanted to write this particular book . Bill i stumbled into it without making a decision to do it. I was supposed to be working on a book with my wife, which i am still working on, about the history of kansas. About thes show murders in villisca, iowa and thought i would put a couple of hours into tracking
Josiah bunting iii back to the New York Historical society. 2016, heretirement in served as president of the Guggenheim Foundation in new york city, and is the former superintendent of the Virginia Military institute in lexington, virginia. To newbeen a great fan York Historical for many years, serving as advisor to our fabulous exhibition and most at the New York Historical society. He is the author of several books including ulysses s grant, and a forthcoming biography of george c marshall. Before we began come as always, i would like to ask you to make sure your cell phones are switched off. And now, please join me in welcoming general bunting to the stage. [applause] thank you. Good evening. It is a pleasure and an honor to be here and to talk about my favorite person, excluding those of you. [laughter] i should begin by talking a little bit about our cultures feeling about the Second World War. At thefrom time to time museum, or rather the program that honors the second what were
The first speaker today is , the author ofnd five books about the men who rode with john mosby during the civil war, his first one is mosbys rangers, which deal with withen from bmi who served mosby, and who has subsequently which tellre books, the story of 110 more men who arved with mosby and it is fifth volume at press right now with will probably be the final volume in that area trade in that series. Hes received the Jefferson Davis historical gold medal. Mr. Buckland is a graduate of the university of kansas and had a 22 year career in the u. S. Army in which he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, slightly higher than i got to when i was in the army. And he has many awards and serve much of his career in special forces. If youve seen some of the awards he received her in that time, we certainly thank him for his service. Works for the United States government and lives with his wife, maureen, in centreville, virginia with three sons in the title of his presentation today is jo
Id like to remind you we have a book table outside in the atrium so i would encourage you to check that out at some point during the conference. We would also like to thank our sponsor, the United States just as charitable foundation, and like to cspan for filming and were broadcasting this lecture. This is titled, millennials for flirtation with socialism. We will focus on the american fixation with socialism, and in particular my generations fixation, which im as shocked as many of you are by. It is my pleasure introduce three professors who will speak to us today. Dr. Andrew mitchell is an associate professor of history who earned his bachelor degree his masters and doctorate from ohio state university. He contributed a chapter for a book about this limits of empire. The limits of empire, european formation in early modern rock history. To dr. David hofstetter earned his ba, ma, and phd from ohio state university. His published articles on reader response the transatlantic classicis