He is a guy looking for a Second Chance here in texas. He has been the governor of tennessee. Hes got military experience with the u. S. Army. He was an officer. Houston wanted to preserve himself in texas for a better day. Sam houston honorably led an started the process of the texa republic. Welcome to san antonio, texas. Behind your famous building bir that is the Church Inside the alamo were famous battle took place. We will talk about this battle in a way in which you never heard before. Before we do that, i want to flashback. Flashback to what texas was lik in 1920 when moses austin started bringing americans righ here. What brought americans to texas in 1820 . What was the attraction . People were on the move in there on the move because theres opportunity and theres also hardships to escape. What texas offers is both of those. You come to texas because the opportunity is the land and at that time, lee and his livelihood. If you dont have land, you cant make them living. Many pe
My name is Christian Pinkston and we want to welcome you to our new home but we are so honored and they fall you are here but we are not here for us. All of you probably know ryan kill made from his job, hosting box and friends. [applause] it is the most popular morning cable news show on the planet for 213 months and two weeks and four days, is that right, brian . You might also know brian from his nationally syndicated radio show which the ryan kill me to show which is almost 150 radio stations across the country and he was named one of the ten most important talk radio host in america in between get this everybody between tv and radio ryan is on the airway six hours a day, five days a week. And yet he has found the time to write a string of New York Times bestselling books. George washington secret six, Thomas Jefferson and the pirates, Andrew Jackson and the miracle of new orleans all told his books have reached over 2. 5 million readers around the world which is fairly impressive
And we want to welcome you to our new home but we are so honored and they fall you are here but we are not here for us. All of you probably know ryan kill made from his job, hosting box and friends. [applause] it is the most popular morning cable news show on the planet for 213 months and two weeks and four days, is that right, brian . You might also know brian from his nationally syndicated radio show which the ryan kill me to show which is almost 150 radio stations across the country and he was named one of the ten most important talk radio host in america in between get this everybody between tv and radio ryan is on the airway six hours a day, five days a week. And yet he has found the time to write a string of New York Times bestselling books. George washington secret six, Thomas Jefferson and the pirates, Andrew Jackson and the miracle of new orleans all told his books have reached over 2. 5 million readers around the world which is fairly impressive that mac these are history boo
Cspan2. Here we go. Excellent. Thank you so much for coming tonight we want to welcome you to our new home we are so honored and thankful that you are here. We are not here for us to probably the you know brian kill mead from his job on fox and friends. It is the mosthe popular morning cable new show on the planet 213 months two weeks and four days you might also know brian from his National Syndicated radio show the brian kill mead show which 150 radio stations across the country and was named one of the ten most talk radio host in america. Between tv and radio he is on the airwaves six hours a day five days a week but yet he has found the time to write bestselling book George Washington secret six Thomas Jefferson the tripoli pirates Andrew Jackson the miracle of new orleans each have reached over two. 5 million readershed around the world which is very impressive. His latest book which we are celebrating tonight is sam houston and the alamo avengers another bestseller that debuted l
perhaps the best known the hemmingses of monticello and american family received 16 book prizes, including the national book award and the pulitzer prize. i m reminded when i was reading her rereading her bio last night. i was reminded of the year that there was a grammy awards where the the person who won for best album. that ll give you an example of how how long ago that was. he thanked stevie wonder for not having produced an album that year because had he produced it. he would have won the award. he had won several times and this is actually what i think of when i think of professor gordon read her work has been so phenomenal. she has also received the douglas prize the macarthur fellowship the google guggenheim fellowship and the national humanities medal. she is making her second appearance here at the forum with her latest book on june 10th. and here is a copy of that. there s several others of her books in the symposium bookstore as well. i was up until 1:30 this mor