Marjorie Cohn will discuss her thought-provoking book (Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues) about the use and impact of drone warfare in today's world. Cohn spoke at…[...]
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Kelly Carlin will discuss her book (A Carlin Home Companion: Growing Up With George) sharing her experience of having a comic genius as a father. Arguably the most influential stand-up…[...]
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Science writers Marcia Bartusiak (Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved) and Thomas Levenson (The Hunt for Vulcan: .…[...]
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Authors Ron Bailey (The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-first Century), Jonathan Cannon (Environment in the Balance: The Green Movement and the Supreme Court), and Jedediah Purdy (After…[...]
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Authors James Robertson, Jr. (After the Civil War), Mark Tooley (The Peace That Almost Was), and Joseph Wheelan (Their Last Full Measure) discuss their histories. The authors spoke at the…[...]
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Authors Dwight Hughes (A Confederate Biography: The Cruise of the USS Shenandoah) and Charles Neimeyer (War in the Chesapeake: The British Campaigns to Control the Bay, 1813-1814) discuss specific aspects…[...]
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Authors Matt Burriesci (Dead White Guys: A Father, His Daughter, and the Great Books of the Western World), Mark Edmundson (Self and Soul: A Defense of Ideals), and Michael Pearson…[...]
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Bruce Hillman (The Man Who Stalked Einstein) shares a fascinating history, which explores high-stake competitiveness in early 20th century physics and how the antagonism between Einstein and Nobel Prize winner…[...]
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William Heath (William Wells and the Struggle for the Old Northeast), Gregory D. Smithers (Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement and Identity), Mary Stockwell (The Other Trail of…[...]
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Michael Suarez discusses the criminal levels of low-literacy in the United States and their social and economic cost. A member of the Library of Congress Literacy Awards Board, Suarez considers…[...]
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Authors Katherine Loflin (Place Match: The City Doctor's Guide to Finding Where You Belong) and Robert McDonald (Conservation for Cities) will talk about the power of place and the importance…[...]
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Authors Daniel de Visi (Andy and Don: The Making of a Friendship and a Classic American TV Show) and Gustavo Pirez Firmat (A Cuban in Mayberry: Looking Back at America's…[...]
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