Washington Journal's annual holiday Authors Week series continues with psychologist and former Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) discussing his book "The Christ Cure" and the mental health crisis in the U.S.
Washington Journal's annual holiday Authors Week series continues with psychologist and former Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) discussing his book "The Christ Cure" and the mental health crisis in the U.S.
Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr. and Christopher Bensen discussed their book, "A Few Days Full of Trouble: Revelations on the Journey to Justice for My Cousin and Best Friend, Emmett Till."
Washington Examiner senior political analyst Michael Barone discussed his book "Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America's Revolutionary Leaders."
Executives with the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) and its associated organizations testified on issues facing athletes. Topics included promoting the Paralympics and diversity, athlete-representation in administrative positions, and financial management of USOPC. The testimonies were given before the Commission on the State of U.S. Olympics and Paralympics on Capitol Hill.
On the cover of R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s memoir is a photo of him holding a 3-olive martini. It was obviously his choice and part of a message he chooses to send his readers about his life after 79 years. Mr. Tyrrell founded the American Spectator magazine in 1967. In the author's bio in the back of the book it says: "He has never had another job, though he came terrifyingly close in the late 1960s when the Vice President asked him to join his staff. After strenuous negotiations, the Vice President settled for Tyrrell as a consultant. After that the Vice President resigned." The Vice President was Spiro Agnew.
University of South Carolina Professor Nicole Maskiell teaches a class on the early development of slavery in the northern American colonies. The University of South Carolina is located in Columbia, South Carolina.
Republican Gerald Ford and Democrat Jimmy Carter -- political rivals in the 1976 presidential campaign -- became lifelong friends who found common cause in the decades after they left the White House. What gave that friendship staying power - even as the country became more partisan? The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation & the Carter Center hosted this event.
Author Michael Worden discussed the 1892 lynching of Robert Lewis, an African American man hanged on accusation of assaulting a white woman in Port Jervis, New York. The D&H Canal Museum in High Falls, New York, hosted this event.
John Lawson and Reverend Noelle York-Simmons talked about President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proclamation of a National Day of Prayer for January 1, 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill worshiped together that day in George Washington's hometown church.
"Father of the atomic bomb," Robert Oppenheimer's life and evolving legacy was the topic of a discussion hosted by Indiana Wesleyan University. Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird ("American Prometheus"), Washington Post reporter Jada Yuan ("Unleashing Oppenheimer") and Department of Energy advisor Narayan Subramanian participated in this event.
University of South Carolina Professor Nicole Maskiell teaches a class on the early development of slavery in the northern American colonies. The University of South Carolina is located in Columbia, South Carolina.
Republican Gerald Ford and Democrat Jimmy Carter -- political rivals in the 1976 presidential campaign -- became lifelong friends who found common cause in the decades after they left the White House. What gave that friendship staying power - even as the country became more partisan? The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation & the Carter Center hosted this event.
Author Michael Worden discussed the 1892 lynching of Robert Lewis, an African American man hanged on accusation of assaulting a white woman in Port Jervis, New York. The D&H Canal Museum in High Falls, New York, hosted this event.
John Lawson and Reverend Noelle York-Simmons talked about President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proclamation of a National Day of Prayer for January 1, 1942, following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill worshiped together that day in George Washington's hometown church.
"Father of the atomic bomb," Robert Oppenheimer's life and evolving legacy was the topic of a discussion hosted by Indiana Wesleyan University. Oppenheimer biographer Kai Bird ("American Prometheus"), Washington Post reporter Jada Yuan ("Unleashing Oppenheimer") and Department of Energy advisor Narayan Subramanian participated in this event.
On the cover of R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s memoir is a photo of him holding a 3-olive martini. It was obviously his choice and part of a message he chooses to send his readers about his life after 79 years. Mr. Tyrrell founded the American Spectator magazine in 1967. In the author's bio in the back of the book it says: "He has never had another job, though he came terrifyingly close in the late 1960s when the Vice President asked him to join his staff. After strenuous negotiations, the Vice President settled for Tyrrell as a consultant. After that the Vice President resigned." The Vice President was Spiro Agnew.
