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Hello, my name is kai bird, im the executive director of the leon leavy centers for biography at cuny, university of new york. We are sponsored by Sheldon Whitehouse and the abto promote the arts and crafts and biography among other things. We been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some years. We are here on a session with the 20th anniversary actually of the National Book festival, the theme this year is american ingenuity. We are going to be talking tonight with two notable publican intellectuals, Harold Holzer is one of the countries leading lincoln scholar, currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer is himself the a ....
Please go to the website and now please enjoy the program. Good afternoon and welcome to this talking on june 14. Todays guest will be professor Elizabeth Varon and her book the armies of deliverance. We are so glad you could find us and to tell us about the institute k12 history and education so the mission is to promote knowledge and understanding of American History through other resources we also provide direct access for those amazing collection. So to find out about the collection please go to the website i am your host here. So if you want to find more about the Education Programs i also have with me from the guild learning collection for you out there in the audience your screens are off and your microphones are off. Know that thats normal so then you say how shall i ask a question . I know we will have a ....
Welcome to book prints, a new Program Sponsored by ambassadors of American History. Im the president of the institute. We are preventing important books in American History which leaves the 18thcentury volumes behind me our current important books by the major prizewinning historians in our country. Also, william roka works on the health and education program. We present each of these historians and guide questions and answer sessions toward the end. Please go to our website, Gilder Lehrman. Com. Good afternoon. On june 14th, welcome, everyone. Todays guest will be professor elizabeth baron. For you guys who are not familiar with the Gilder Lehrman institute, we are so glad you could join us and to tell ....
People will sometimes they northerners wanted to waive hearts and minds wasnt there why wasnt there a Marshall Plan well, there was. The friedman zero often gave more to governors than africanamericans, but it was pro trade as sort of agency of subjugation and oppression and tyranny and so on, so there was no link that lost cause types it would go to to distort history and part of their distortion was sweeping under the rug the evidence of dissent in the south, sweeping under the unity, sweeping under the rug the contributions of the southern black Union Victory in their opposition to slavery and so on to create a fiction and again, northerners and others who had hopes and a change to come in the face of a Massive Campaign of a propaganda. I have been thinking about this and im writing a biography of a james long street, ....
President sheila bair, adam goodhart. And the board of visitors and governors of Washington College. [applause] and the cofounders and cochairs Richard Gilder and lewis , lehrman. And all the trustees of the institute. [applause] founded in 2005, the 50,000 George Washington prize is sponsored by our three organizations and is awarded each year to the best work about the founding era. This is the first time the washington prize has ever been awarded to a play. [applause] i would add that no one in this room, no one anywhere, would be surprised that tonight it will be presented to Linmanuel Miranda for his astonishing hamilton. [applause] from mr. Miranda a bit later. I want to recognize our first, distinguished guests and special friends. Among them the fo ....