gilder and lerman created the gilder lerman prize and the lincoln prize, approximately one quarter of a century ago and then the george washington prior. they attracted formidable new scholarships about the 15th president, the phenomenon of slavery and the age of the founding fathers respectively. and i think the same thing will now happen in the much-needed study of military history. four books are the carriers of civilization as barbara has written, without books, history is silent and literature is done and science is crippled. without, the development of civilization would not be possible. they are the engines of change in the windows on the world and as the poet said, lighthouses directed on the sea of time. anything that encourages analysis, understanding, of war and peace for generations to come is to be honored, this is what makes the prize such an important idea. given what is going on in the world today, it appears that we needed more than ever. so in closing i'm particularly proud of the past chairman of the new york historical society were the gilder and lerman archives ar

liz: private banks and thomas lerman. >> we had an amazing investors.nteresting as well is when we were getting started and articulating that vision of helping connect people with a real inspiration, information about different career paths, signing investors who got it and saw that too is important. liz: does everybody want to facebook or silicon valley and how does this give me an edge? >> as catherine articulated one thing that is exciting about thenews is you get a sense what it is like to work there sell a lot of careers don't get that and one of the things that resonated with me is we are focused on helping actually those individuals once they found the dream career what skills they need to acquire to get into that job. liz: if somebody wanted to acquire you -- >> we had a couple of interest but for us there is such a massive opportunity and when you think about the brands a lot of the mark transactional. you go, get a list of jobs, you leave. i want to create a place people come back to again and again. there is an opportunity to blow this indust

josiah bunting, president of the harry frank guggenheim foundation, and louis lerman, co-chairman of the board of the guggenheim-lehrman institute of american history. josiah bunting has written six highly acclaimed books and edited a couple others. he is now finishing his major opus, the life of george catholic marshall, a soldier, general, statesmen, and a great american. louis lerman, author of the wonderful lincoln at peoria, constitutes half of the dynamic duo that build the irreplaceable, indispensable gilder lehrman institute. the other half being richard gilder who i don't think is here this evening. net effect is, the sad fact -- the fact is, the sad fact is, that most book prize, although not all of them, are little noted nor long remembered. but sometimes a prize sheds a light on the subject of such strategic importance that it helps stimulate interest on the part of a new generation of historians, and equally important lovers of history, both young and old. when gilder lehrman craig they gilder lehrman prize, the gilder lehrman created the lincoln prize, approximately a q

she is the gilda lerman institute for the help of operation in arranging this evening. i also would like to very much welcome and recognize alan and francis members of the board of trustees who have taken their time to come here this evening as well. thank you for that. a few brief words of introduction. one of the reasons i was so glad and jumped jump at this opportunity was because this work and the work of professor davis has met such a great deal to us. personally my own work is drawn upon in benefited from professor davis's writings particularly years ago when i was researching anti-separatism and anti-catholicism and to give you a sense of some of the breadth of professor davis's work didn't include slavery which is what we are here to talk about tonight. i -- we are greatly indebted to professor davis' courage and in printing anti-semitism particularly a few decades ago when it was a time of great controversy and great tension and yet he stood up and forthrightly condemned what needed to be condemned and did it in a scholarly and dispassionate manner that left a

that's a great cast of -- >> jennifer connelly, ray winston, sir anthony hopkins, logan lerman, douglaspkins was going to be -- that's right, oh she's great as well. you know, i was going to get you to do a little musical thing. i was gonna try to talk to you. we have a guitar in case, ready to go. [ cheers and applause ] >> why not? >> jimmy: yeah, yeah, do it. >> can i do that? >> jimmy: let's do something. >> cool. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: this is fun. all right. >> all righty. >> jimmy: all right. >> all right, so do you mind if we do an old australian folk song? >> jimmy: yeah, we love australian folk songs. >> by johnny cash. [ laughter ] ♪ ♪ i hear the train a-coming it's rolling around the bend ♪ ♪ i ain't seen the sunshine baby since i don't know when ♪ ♪ oh well i'm stuck in folsom prison and time keeps draggin' on i hear that train a-rolling way down to san antone ♪ ♪ well i bet there's rich folks eatin' in a fancy dining car ♪ ♪ i bet they're drinking coffee smoking their cigars ♪ ♪ you know i knew i had it coming knew that i could not be free ♪ ♪ but that train kee