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2012_VA_CWT_Goodheart_120610 | 31 | CWT Annual Conference (2012) in Richmond, VA -- Adam Goodheart talk |
2012_VA_CWT_Breakfast_120610 | 36 | CWT Annual Conference (2012) in Richmond, VA -- Closing Breakfast |
2017_DC_NHC_CWMon_171023 | 72 | National History Center -- Congressional Briefing on the History of Civil War Monuments @ Rayburn House Office Bldg The National History Center invites you to attend our
Congressional Briefing on the History of Civil War Monuments
Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2044
The recent violence in Charlottesville accelerated debate about Confederate monuments in public spaces across the US. While some regard these... |
2012_DC_Goodheart_120118 | 23 | Natl Archives -- Adam Goodheart ("1861: The Civil War Awakening") 1861: The Civil War Awakening:
Adam Goodheart presents a gripping account of how the Civil War began in 1861: The Civil War Awakening. Early in that fateful year, a second American revolution unfolded to free the country of slavery and end paralyzing attempts to compromise over it. A book signing will... |
2011_DC_NBF_Goodheart_110925 | 14 | Natl Book Festival 2011 -- Adam Goodheart Adam Goodheart
Adam Goodheart is a historian, journalist and critic whose new book is the New York Times best-selling and critically praised "1861: The Civil War Awakening" (Knopf). He has contributed frequent essays and reviews to The New York Times (where he also served as deputy editor of the Op-Ed... |
2023_DC_Goodheart_230917 | 78 | Politics & Prose -- Adam Goodheart ("The Last Island") w/Wil Haygood Adam Goodheart -- The Last Island: Discovery, Defiance, and the Most Elusive Tribe on Earth - with Wil Haygood
A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese people want to be left alone and will shoot deadly... |
2010_DC_Fischer_100501 | 143 | Reynolds Center & Washington College -- David Hackett Fischer ("Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware") Historian David Hackett Fischer on Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware
The American Pictures series offers a highly original approach to art and portraiture, pairing great works of art with leading figures of contemporary American culture. Each American Pictures event features an... |
2009_DC_Holzer_090418 | 117 | Reynolds Center & Washington College -- Harold Holzer ("John Henry Brown's Abraham Lincoln") -- People American Pictures: The American Pictures Distinguished Lecture Series offers a highly original approach to art and portraiture. This series pairs great works of art with leading figures of contemporary American culture. Each American Pictures lecture features an eminent writer, thinker, historian, or... |
2010_DC_McPherson_100410 | 90 | Reynolds Center & Washington College -- James M. McPherson ("Alexander Gardner’s Antietam, Md., Confederate Dead by a Fence on the Hagerstown Road") Author James M. McPherson on Alexander Gardner’s
Antietam, Md., Confederate Dead by a Fence on the Hagerstown Road
The American Pictures series offers a highly original approach to art and portraiture, pairing great works of art with leading figures of contemporary American culture. Each American... |
2010_DC_Feiffer_100417 | 121 | Reynolds Center & Washington College -- Jules Feiffer ("Bob Landry’s Fred Astaire in Puttin’ on the Ritz") Cartoonist Jules Feiffer on Bob Landry’s Fred Astaire in “Puttin’ on the Ritz”:
The American Pictures series offers a highly original approach to art and portraiture, pairing great works of art with leading figures of contemporary American culture. Each American Pictures event features an eminent... |
2009_DC_Chast_090426 | 128 | Reynolds Center & Washington College -- Roz Chast ("Charles Adams's Boiling Oil") American Pictures: The American Pictures Distinguished Lecture Series offers a highly original approach to art and portraiture. This series pairs great works of art with leading figures of contemporary American culture. Each American Pictures lecture features an eminent writer, thinker, historian, or... |
2012_DC_Horwitz_120407 | 83 | Reynolds Center & Washington College -- Tony Horwitz ("Midnight Rising") Pulitzer Prize-- winning journalist, travel writer, and historian Tony Horwitz has written four bestselling books. His subject is a gripping portrait of abolitionist John Brown in captivity -- a painting that hides as much as it reveals.
The American Pictures series offers a highly original approach... |
2011_DC_Goodheart_110423 | 23 | Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Author Talk: Adam Goodheart ("1861: The Civil War Awakening") 1861: The Civil War Awakening"
Historian, journalist, and travel writer Adam Goodheart discusses his new book 1861: The Civil War Awakening, a gripping account of the early days of the Civil War. Goodheart is director of Washington College’s C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.... |
2012_DC_SIPG_Tour_120407 | 37 | Reynolds Center (NPG) -- Tour: Adam Goodheart Civil War tour for Washington College |
2012_DC_Rosin_120911 | 96 | Sixth & I -- Hanna Rosin ("The End of Man") w/David Plotz Hanna Rosin In Conversation with (Her Husband and Boss) David Plotz
Men have been the dominant sex since, well, the dawn of mankind. But as Hanna Rosin revealed in her groundbreaking The Atlantic cover story “The End of Men,” this long-held truth is no longer true. By almost every measure, women are no... |
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2024_03_23A1_Lincoln | 181 | Abraham Lincoln 2024 Symposium @ Fords Theatre (Page 1 of 2) Abraham Lincoln Institute Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium
“The Latest in Lincoln Scholarship”
Abraham Lincoln Institute, Inc. (ALI), provides free, ongoing education on the life, career, and legacy of President Abraham Lincoln. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., ALI offers resources for educators, g... (Partially reviewed) |
2024_04_09A2_Ghosts | 205 | Library of Congress -- Event: Library Hosts Cast Members of CBS Comedy Ghosts Library Hosts Cast Members of CBS Comedy Ghosts
Event to Feature Panel with Asher Grodman, Danielle Pinnock, Richie Moriarty, Rebecca Wisocky, Román Zaragoza, Library Items Curated for Each Ghost’s Time Period and Special Episode Screening
The Library of Congress will host cast members from CBS’s hi... (Partially reviewed) |
2024_03_23A4_Lincoln4 | 179 | Abraham Lincoln 2024 Symposium @ Fords Theatre (Page 2 of 2) Abraham Lincoln Institute Twenty-Seventh Annual Symposium
“The Latest in Lincoln Scholarship”
Abraham Lincoln Institute, Inc. (ALI), provides free, ongoing education on the life, career, and legacy of President Abraham Lincoln. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., ALI offers resources for educators, g... (Partially reviewed) |
2024_01_14B1_Gonna_Take | 196 | Labor Heritage Foundation @ McGinty's Public House -- MLK "Gonna Take Us All Ball" (Page 1 of 2) MLK "Gonna Take Us All Ball"
Recommit to Dr. King’s dream of equality and justice for all and celebrate Elise Bryant’s well-deserved retirement from LHF!
By Labor Heritage Foundation
Tickets are now FREE! Thanks to the Maryland State and DC AFL-CIO, AFSCME 112, the International Association of Heat ... |
2024_02_13B1_USCHS_Freedom | 218 | USCHS -- Freedom Award (2024) to Cheryl L. Johnson (Page 2 of 2) Everything else We look forward to your attendance at the Freedom Award Reception honoring Cheryl L. Johnson, the 36th Clerk of the House of Representatives
The U.S. Capitol Historical Society is honored to present its 2023 Freedom Award to Cheryl L. Johnson to recognize her exceptional leadership and pivotal role ... (Partially reviewed) |