it's my pleasure to introduce professor paul lockhart to you today.but before i tell you a little bit more about paul, i want to thank both professor, alpena sharma and the department of english for hosting this event and the college of liberal arts and university libraries for sponsoring it. be sure to stop by the friends of the library today table today, too. hi. i likewise want to thank nick warrington and becca webb from cola for the work. they've done to help make this event happen and give a shout out to seth bogus and jim hannah and w

paul lockhart. welcome everyone. my name is crystal lake and i'm a professor here in the department of english language and literatures at wright state. it's my pleasure to introduce professor paul lockhart to you today. but before i tell you a little bit more about paul, i want to thank both professor, alpena sharma and the department of english for hosting this event and the college of liberal arts and university libraries for sponsoring it. be sure to stop by the friends of the library today table today, too. hi. i likewise want to thank nick warrington and becca webb from cola for the work. they've done to help make this event happen and give a shout out to seth bogus and jim hannah and wright state's communications for the help. they provide it to promote today's talk, and i also want to welcome c-span and book tv to write state's campus. we're thrilled that you're here and we hope to have the chance to see you again. finally. i want to acknowledge that we are located on the homelands of the sessian hopewell, ed

professor paul lockhart has been a member of the faculty of wright state university since 1989. in addition to teaching public how picks such a history of the gun, history of kings and queens, paul has published seven books on military history in the history of scandinavia. paul has also had fellowships from the american council blended society and the american scandinavian sound asian. he has been a visiting lecturer at the university of southern denmark. he has been the anomie for the humanities visiting professor at potsdam. in 2014, paul was named a braise golding department of research professor here at right state. he was named the ohio distinguished historian by the ohio center of history. he lives with mary, her wife. one poodle, and three, according to paul, dim-witted cats. paula's most recent book which you will be hearing about today is firepower a magisterial history on how changes and weapons technology have not only shape changes in warfare but also impacted almost every aspect of modern human society. especially the structural power from the west in the renaissanc

lockhart, bbc news, westminster. a special constable serving with the metropolitan police has been charged with rape, in connection with an incident in shropshire. ao—year—old paulappear at kidderminster magistrates' court today, facing a total of four charges. he's been suspended from the met and the case has been referred to the independent office for police conduct. the body of the former japanese prime minister, shinzo abe, has been taken to tokyo after he was shot and killed yesterday at a political rally. a 41—one—year—old man — armed with a home—made weapon — said he carried out the attack. but questions have been growing about the speed of the response of security officers, as our correspondent mariko oi reports. ina quiet in a quiet residential street in japan, hundreds of people gathered as they waited. after a long drive back from the city of nara where he was assassinated, the car arrived. the body of japan's longest serving prime minister, shinzo abe, has now returned home here in tokyo. you might be able to see hundreds ofjournalists and camera operators behind me but you also have many members of the japanese public awaiting for many hours for his