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To mark the 198th anniversary of Ulysses S. Grant’s birthday, the Grant Monument Association hosted a discussion between retired General David Petraeus and Elizabeth Samet, editor of an anno…

West Point Professor Elizabeth Samet talked about her book, The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, an annotated edition of the 18th president’s autobiography that primarily covered his m…

Elizabeth Samet talked about her book No Man’s Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9/11 America. In her book she explores what it means for soldiers to be between deployments and to be…

David Goodman talked about people who have protested the loss of civil liberties, including librarians fighting the loss of privacy in libraries due to the Patriot Act and conscientious obje…

Elizabeth Samet was interviewed about her book Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point. She talked about the importance of teaching literature to sold…

Elizabeth Samet talked about her book, Soldier’s Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. In her book, Elizabeth Samet recounted…