university professor at harvard university and owners included national humanities medal and macarthur genius grant in the frederick douglass prize and in her new book texas born historian examines her own path and her lone star state roots and juneteenth rated and simmering review and new york times, praise book for the authors to combine clarity subtly questioning her own assumptions and showing the historical understandings is a process not an endpoint. tonight gordon reed will be in conversation with award winning broadcaster journalist and longtime friend and a three minute series. what have you with us and the screen is yours. and it is quite an honor to be here tonight when the professor annette gordon reed and this book has gotten rave reviews and if you have not yet picked it up make sure you do that to get it through the joseph fox bookshop but we are delighted to have this time together and we would encourage you as andy said, to ask questions because we left tim
diaries. in those during the late thirties when klaus fuchs was there he was always showing up in some little piece of paper i had from the boards. he was showing up is a nice person. he was taking their children out to the movies. he played cards with them. he was in there a little ensemble that they had at their house. and people like him. he was very quite anti. he was a nice person. all of a sudden he was a spy. they were dumbfounded. and i came into this information because i did not know much about him when i was first working on it. so at that point as i was writing about it, i was like, i should find out more about fuchs, an interesting person to put in the book. i went into the archives in london. and there were three little skimpy files. the very last when i looked at had a letter, a memo in it, from somebody in the administration saying where my supposed to do with all of these fuchs files, his trial? the person who received said throw them away. when i saw this i
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he is a guy looking for a second chance here in texas. he has been the governor of tennessee. he s 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 we re on the move in there on the move because there s opportunity and there s 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 don t have land, you can
the speaking portion is almost always e. and open to the public and we are able to do that because you come here and buy your books and your stocks and greeting cards and we appreciate you keeping it local. it s about our guest will be speaking tonight. the event will be recorded by c-span, so an extra special reminder to silence your cell phones. after the guest is done speaking there will be an opportunity to ask questions, and we will have microphones available so your questions can be picked up as well. if you would like to stick around afterwards to get it signed, we can accommodate that we just ask that you first purchased the book downstairs. they are available right when you walk in at the information desk. tonight we are excited to welcome back to the store h. w. brands. he is a professor here at u. of t. and he holds five senior chair in history. he is a new york times best-selling author of 30 books on u.s. history. if you can keep history that interesting that y