Rough Crossings – Simon Schama Speaks at Google

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“Rough Crossings” is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence. With gripping, powerfully vivid story-telling, Simon Schama follows the escaped blacks into the fires of the war, and into freezing, inhospitable Nova Scotia where many who had served the Crown were betrayed in their promises to receive land at the war’s end. Their fate became entwined with British abolitionists: inspirational figures such as Granville Sharp, the flute-playing father-figure of slave freedom, and John Clarkson, the ‘Moses’ of this great exodus, who accompanied the blacks on their final…

Global Philanthropy Forum 2007: Keynote Address

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Keynote Address: Financing Poverty Alleviation

Introduction: Sheryl Sandberg, Vice President, Global Online Sales and Operations, Google

John Danilovich, CEO, Millennium Challenge Corporation

Part of the Global Philanthropy Forum 2007, a project of the World Affairs Council of Northern California.

“Talking Back” – Andrea Mitchell speaks at Google

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NBC News’ Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell spoke at Google on March 16, 2006.

Mitchell has reported on politics for over 30 years, covering all the presidents from Carter through George W. Bush. She has done exclusive interviews with both the famous and infamous including Fidel Castro, sat in on high-level negotiations in the Middle East and North Korea, and much, much more. The story of her career in journalism and the tales of what she has been a part of are simply fascinating.

Andrea’s latest book is titled “Talking Back: …to Presidents, Dictators, and Assorted Scoundrels.”

This video is part of the Authors@Google series. Credits: Speaker:Andrea Mitchell