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We hope you enjoy these discussions which will now began as a reminder we will take audience questions and encourage you to support at the bottom of the screen we will try to get tour to it to the end of the broadcast vector davis hanson the senior fellow here at the Hoover Institution focus on military history the bestselling author related to 24 books both the National Humanities medal if i had that i would have that hanging around my neck 24 7. Thank you for having me. A lot of us are watching this around the globe cities and suburbs are we know the differences the past couple weeks life is come to us in one a standstill you are a fifthgeneration farmer right now 15 miles outside of fresno and in this agricultural community. There is a sense that life can go on and it will go on by definition with a solitary existence so looking down at the great vineyard or truck ....
Thank you for braving the elements and joining us this evening. I am the president of the Massachusetts Historical Society. As our members and regular attendees know [laughter] that is wonderful, i have not done anything yet. We provide workshops, run National History day, convene academic seminars and mount exhibitions. More than anything, what we do is hold an amazing collection of almost 14 million items, and we provide to historians and researchers for free. In our holdings we have the equivalent of 2. 5 president ial libraries. We have the papers of john adams, John Quincy Adams, and personal papers of Thomas Jefferson. That is important to mention because we have a special program with a special connection. We will hear about the publi ....
Chris bunin. He shows how Geographic Information systems can be used to trace the source and map the spread of diseases throughout history, including cholera, smallpox, and aids. He coauthored the book jamestown to appomattox mapping u. S. History with gis. I am so excited to be here with you. I am joining you from nelson county, virginia just outside of our Albemarle County this is my School Campus where i teach geography, oral history, and geospatial technologies a stones throw away from the border of charlottesville, virginia. If you would like to follow along with some of the links i am sharing today, if you go to this bitly, it is not a perfect alignment to this keynote. I had all the intentions for it to line up perfectly and my children running upstairs had different ideas. I was asked to give this keynot ....