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george washington university. before he introduces our speaker today, let me acknowledge our partnership with the national history center and the american historical association we are cosponsoring and co-organizing this seminar with. let me acknowledgment our donors, the george washington university history department as well as a number of individuals giving support for this series. we want to acknowledge roger lewis, the co-chairman of the seminar. he s here all the way from texas. i want to welcome all of you and say thank you to the ones who do the heavy lifting in terms of getting is here and organize. we are grateful to you. [applause] thank you. with that, i think we should turn it over to eric. one last technical announcement, if you have one of these devices, and i suspect everyone in the room does. turn it to vibrate or silence, that will prevent embarrassment and interruption in the next hour and a half. with that, it is my pleasure to introduce this after ....
gw department of history and i m the cochair of the history seminar. is roger lewis. the seminar now in its eighth year is a joint venture between the woodrow wilson international center for scholars and the national history center at the american historical association. our aim is to foster conversations about the past and make history a central part of conversations in the united states and across the world. our efforts are made possible in part by the efforts of many particular,uding in the wilson center and the national history center. these are the folks behind the .cene with us is the director of the national history center, dane kennedy. we are always grateful for the schaeffer,upport of the society of historians of the american nation which helps underwrite this program, as well as gw. it is their support that makes it possible for us week after week to bring distinguished scholars to talk about the work in the wonderful setting that is the wilson center. roger ....
i am the cochair of the washington history seminar. cochairing with me today is roger lewis, the founding chair of the seminar and former director of the national history center. , our aims eighth year is to foster conversation about the past and to make history and essential part of public conversation about these events here in the united states and across the world. possible inare made part by the efforts of many people, but in particular the people at the wilson center and the associate director of the wilson center. they handle the logistics and work out the logistics have. today is danes kennedy. we are always grateful for the ,inancial support of shaver which generously helps to the history department in a number of anonymous donors with their , weort, making it possible the her week, to bring us scholars who do the work at the wilson center. i think that roger now will introduce the speaker. neil, as everyone here knows, is a famous historian. the author of ma ....
thank you very much indeed. great pleasure to be here. and i thought i would say a couple of things by way of pressers. our efforts are made possible in part to the efforts of many people, including the wilson center and the national history center and these are the people who behind the scenes handle a logistics and work out whatever issues we have to make sure that all goes smoothly. today is theus director of the national history center. we are always grateful for the the society of foreign relations which under rights the seminar. support that makes it possible for us week to week to bring distinguished scholar to talk about their work in the wonderful setting that is the wilson center. roger lewis will introduce our speaker. he is a famous historian. of paper andhor , colossus, civilization. he is a fellow at the hoover institution at stanford. his many awards include the benjamin franklin prize for ludwigservice and the ehrhardt prize for economic journalism. he ....
afternoon, fbi director announced the latest review of hillary clinton s e-mails is over. the agency does not plan anything that would warrant any charges. in a letter to congress james comey wrote that none of the new e-mails which were discovered on the computer of the disgraced former congressman anthony weiner is fbi officials any reason to change conclusion they reached back in july. clinton s communication director had this to say after the announcement. we have seen director comey s latest letter to the hill, and we are glad to see as we were, that we found as we were confident that he would, that he has confirmed the conclusion that he really reached in july, and we re glad that this matter is reoffed. meanwhile during an appearance in ohio this evening clinton herself did not comment on the announcement. the news came just hours after clinton left philadelphia, where she spoke at a church in west oak lane. it was one of the several appearances by the ca ....