Lectures tagged "War"

Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy
Paula Butturini
March 2, 2010
00:59:57
Journalist Paula Butturini talks about her new memoir Keeping the Feast: One Couple's Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy. Paula and John met in Italy, fell in love, and four years later, married in Rome. But less than a month after the wedding, tragedy struck.
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Honor Moore: The Bishop's Daughter
Honor Moore
October 8, 2008
00:50:21
Honor Moore discusses her most recent memoir, The Bishop's Daughter, the story of Moore's complex and visionary father, a man who was an Episcopal priest, an activist bishop in Washington under the Johnson administration, and a civil rights leader.
Ramifications of the Russia-Georgia Conflict
Meade Sutterfield
September 11, 2008
00:58:37
Meade Sutterfield, Society of International Business Fellows (SIBF) facilitator; Wayne Lord, president, Southern Center for International Studies (SCIS); Lt.
Great Decisions: The US in the Middle East
John Kelly
January 25, 2007
01:22:12
John Kelly draws on his vast experience in diplomatic posts and with the State Department to provide background on the situation in Iran, Iraq and Lebanon and explore US options for the future.
Vietnam War and the Presidency: Keynote Speaker
David Halberstam
March 10, 2006
00:58:27
David Halberstam, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, gives the opening lecture at "Vietnam and the Presidency", a national conference where leading historians, key policymakers of the Vietnam War er
Zainab Salbi: Between Two Worlds
Zainab Salbi
October 17, 2005
00:56:54
Zainab Salbi reveals the tyrant Saddam Hussein through the eyes of a child, a secretly rebellious teenager, an abused wife, and ultimately a professional woman coming to terms with the horror of her family story. Salbi was 11 when her father was chosen to serve as Saddam Hussein's personal pilot.
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War of Words: The Last Colonial War in American Literature
Wayne Franklin
September 21, 2005
00:52:40
As a young author, James Fenimore Cooper set out to write a series of Revolutionary War era novels, but abruptly changed his plans after his first visit in 1825 to several classic French and Indian Wa
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Empires at War: The French and Indian War
William M. Fowler Jr.
September 7, 2005
00:56:27
William M.