great hosts and interviewers and interviewees, so please get a copy of this book, "yale needs women," at your bookstore and our next lecture is on thursday night. i hope you join us for that one. thank you. anne: america.on reel a series of programs on dwight d. eisenhower, the supreme commander and the 34th president. first, a 19 623 national council for the social studies film covering significant events during the eight years of the dwight d. eisenhower administration. designed for use in the classroom, the documentary emphasizes major challenges and 1960.53 the second program is the u.s. army film that traces the military career of dwight d. eisenhower from his time at west point through the conclusion of world war ii. then a biographical film produced by eisenhower's presidential campaign that features his accomplishments during world war ii and his role in the formation of nato. the final program documents the funeral services of former president eisenhower following his death on march 28, 1969. ♪

please get a copy of this book, yale needs women, and support your local bookstore. good night everybody. our next lecture is on thursday night. we hope you join us for that. thanks very much everyone. >> thanks so much, mark. take care. bye-bye. cbs news our anchor judy woodruff interviewed, johanna neuman, i author of the book gilded suffragists, about the new york league who joined the suffragists movement in the early 20th century. that is next on american history tv. >> i'm so delighted to be here. i know johanna is. she will have a chance

communities to monitor daily life in bookstores, cafes, nightclubs and even infiltrated muslim student organizations in colleges and universities such as columbia and yale university. when we tolerate this type of racial profiling and the guise of promoting national security, we jep ardize public safety and compromise the basic things set forth in our constitution. policing base on stereotypes remains an entrenched practice in routine law enforcement across the country. the tragic story of trayvon martin has garnered national attention and raised important questions about the role of race in the criminal justice system. while we don't yet know how this heartbreaking story will end, we do know that stereotypes played a role in this tragedy and yet they have no place in law enforcement. racial profiling undermines the trust and mutual respect between police and the communities they are there to protect, which is critical to keeping communities safe. additionally, profiling deepens racial divisions in america and conveys a larger message that some citizens do not serve equal protection under the law. in the context of immigration, racial profiling is explo

i would see it in bookstores and was thrilled. >> can you remember how you felt at that time as you're getting published by yale and reviewed in the new york times. how big of a deal was it? >> unbelievable. and now i'm hooked and going to keep going. because i realized -- the epiphany i had when i was doing research on acheson was i was renting a flat in new haven, and i went to see the grateful dead and bob dylan while i was researching. and it was so hot, and i had been so bored. and i had been waiting for a month for this concert. i just real oozed, i'm in new haven, and i have been slacking. i'm not working hard on my book. so next day i just got into kind of a -- i became a monk. all i did was focus on, i've got to get this done. and i learned that it's a trade, book writing. it's like being a bricklayer or a plumber. a historian is a trades person. and you have to learn your trade. how to properly use footnotes. how to pivot to keep chronology going. some of it is simple, but you've got to learn how to frame it. but that book was hard. i framed it. it did well. and now i realized, with that, i can do mor

it was no use trying to rush this when yale university pressed rightly wanted to get copies of this at the front of of you know, barnes and noble bookstores and that was impossible so we held on and that gave me the chance to go back to the manuscript and go through its sentence by sentence and try to trim it down. it's a very large narrative in any case and to try to get official sufficient and wonderful number of statistical. tables and data and the maps by mapmaker down in maryland mr. wilson all put into this complicated book. i was trying to do if you like. what historians might call a broad delian approach to the naval history of the second world war brodell and his magnificent books on the mediterranean in the age of philip ii said there was an underlying or basic level of causation geography the climate and everything else. there was a middle level of technical technical and technological trading change which affected things. and there's a top level the history of events lee strava anymore, which was that of you know battle of lepanto or the spanish armada. could you try and do broad dell in the mid 20th century? i was going to ha

it was no use trying to rush this when yale university pressed rightly wanted to get copies of this at the front of of you know, barnes and noble bookstores and that was impossible so we held on and that gave me the chance to go back to the manuscript and go through its sentence by sentence and try to trim it down. it's a very large narrative in any case and to try to get official sufficient and wonderful number of statistical. tables and data and the maps by mapmaker down in maryland mr. wilson all put into this complicated book. i was trying to do if you like. what historians might call a broad delian approach to the naval history of the second world war brodell and his magnificent books on the mediterranean in the age of philip ii said there was an underlying or basic level of causation geography the climate and everything else. there was a middle level of technical technical and technological trading change which affected things. and there's a top level the history of events lee strava anymore, which was that of you know battle of lepanto or the spanish armada. could you try and do broad dell in the mid 20th century? i was going to ha

bookstore, is one for all by lily lane. it's a white novel about a character with pots who and it's written by a fencer who fence with yale who has pots. my last shout out be for a nonfiction recommendation which alice wang's year of the tiger, which came out this september it's a memoir by alice wong, who edited the disability visibility. she's a very dear friend and her words really matter. and i think it's a book that everybody should read. okay, awesome. and what are you reading right now, if i may ask? i am currently reading babble by r.f. crank. yeah, how are you liking that? i love it, but i went to oxford for a book, so very academic. yeah, great. well, i think we have some time for a question. the audience, we do have a microphone for folks, since this is being recorded. so who has a question for for elsa, uh, about. yeah. so the book's about for a little bit now and i'm curious if there are any reactions to it that surprised you or any that, you know, you were more excited by. i had someone walk up to me in a bar about six months ago, sobbing and hugging my book like a teddy bear. and she said that it was like someb

yale, my family as well. but thank you so much for this. reading. the second nominated work in poetry is, the co-owner of diesel, a bookstore in los angeles and san diego he judge for the l.a. times book prize in poetry this year and has lent his expertise and passion for poetry as a judge for the aba indies choice book award, the national book award and other prizes. welcome john evans reading. if you see something, say something. from james cagney's martian the saint of loneliness. published by nomad express. james cagney's second book of poems. martian the scene of loneliness for the articulate, contemporary urban life. a place of striking beauty, erotic desire, and layered historical and structural musical, all stunningly visual with giddy leaps of imagination. he brings all his poetic skills to skewer hypocrisies, cruelties and violences in scathing poems which seek relief a less isolated humanity with love, honesty, and a piercing intimacy intimacy. if you see something, say something. i pick up my mail down the street from an ice raid, him boning myself for the title. proof of ownership, a passport license. the sky began hailing handcuffs and zi