About Books With Patrick Oliver
Patrick Oliver, founder and CEO of Say It Loud! Readers & Writers, discussed the need for literary arts programs and his efforts to promote reading among children and young adults.
99 viewsPatrick Oliver, founder and CEO of Say It Loud! Readers & Writers, discussed the need for literary arts programs and his efforts to promote reading among children and young adults.
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CNN chief political correspondent Dana Bash looked at Louisiana’s Reconstruction-Era gubernatorial election of 1872, and the political and racial violence that occurred that year. Politics a…
43 viewsAuthor and publisher Peter Osnos talked about “LBJ and McNamara,” a book-length Substack serial and soon to be book about President Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s handlin…
107 viewsHistorian Garrett Graff talked about his book, The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11, in which he provided a history of September 11, 2001, by utilizing newly declassified docum…
2,878 viewsFollowing an attack by hijacked airliners on the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, President Bush addressed the nation from the Oval Office about the incidents. He said the U.S. wa…
19,998 viewsPresident Biden and 2024 Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris delivered remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 2024 Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washi…
2,954 viewsFormer Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross talked about how he succeeded on Wall Street and in life. He also talked about his experiences in Washington during the Trump administration. This ev…
23 viewsAmerican History TV followed a tour of Georgetown’s historic Mount Zion and Female Union Band Society cemeteries - located in the nation’s capital and the final resting place of African Amer…
164 viewsSen. Laphonza Butler (D-CA) spoke with Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE) and Angela Alsobrooks (D), the respective U.S. Senate nominees for Delaware and Maryland, for a discussion on the impo…
34 viewsFormer National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster talked about his time in the Trump Administration and lays out a blueprint for a potential second Donald Trump term. The Hoover Institution’s W…
59 viewsThe Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library & Museum hosted President Biden during a commemoration of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The 60th anniversary events featured civil rights veteran and …
27 viewsNobel Prize-winning economist Michael Kremer and White House official Dr. Paul Friedrichs discussed innovation and pandemic preparedness during an event at the Center for Global Development …
139 viewsRenée DiResta looked at how propagandists use social media and algorithms to undermine faith in democracy and government institutions. This event was hosted by the Commonwealth Club of Calif…
51 viewsFrederick Hess & Michael McShane presented their plan for a conservative alternative to the U.S. education system. This event was hosted by the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D…
460 viewsArcheology curator Stephen O’Neill talked about how findings from excavations at the Alden House helps recreate the daily life in 17th century Plymouth Colony. Plimoth Patuxent Museums in Ma…
158 views“The Violence Against Women Act is my proudest legislative accomplishment, in all the years I’ve served as senator, vice president, and president,” said President Joe Biden in remarks from t…
305 viewsAuthor and journalist Sebastian Junger talked about his near-death experience and what it taught him about the possibility of an afterlife. This event was hosted by BookPeople in Austin, Tex…
70 viewsVirginia Commonwealth University professor Kathryn Shively argued that the Union Army of Virginia logistical failures contributed to the military loss in the August 1862 Battle of Second Man…
126 viewsThis 1963 U.S. Information Department film captured the spirit of Americana at the Texas State Fair, with its amusements, competitions of agricultural products and cattle, and exhibits of ne…
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