Dallas Jewish Bookfest

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To register for this free event,

go to  http://www.jccdallas.org/main/bookfest-2015.

NICK KOTZ, American journalist, author, and historian, presents his most recent book,The Harness Maker’s Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas. As a reporter for the Washington Post and the Des Moines Register, and in six path-breaking books, Nick Kotz won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the National Magazine Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, and eight other renowned prizes. Among his works are exposés of government corruption and studies of national defense, civil rights, social justice, and labor unions. His most recent book, The Harness Maker’s Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas, received a 2015 San Antonio Conservation Society Publication Award. The Texas Institute of Letters named it a finalist for their Carr P. Collins Award for Non-fiction.

 

 

 

Nick Kotz at Washington Hebrew Congregation Prime Timers Luncheon

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On Monday, May 18, 2015, at the Washington Hebrew Congregation’s Prime Timers Luncheon,  Nick Kotz will discuss his latest book, The Harness Makers Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas and talk about how to research and write your own family’s story.

To attend, send a check payable to WHC Prime Timers ($12 for Prime Timers, $15 for all others) to Sandra Grant, 4940 Sentinel Drive, #202, Bethesda, MD 20816.

For more information, go to http://www.whctemple.org/groups-and-activities/adult-groups/seniors 

2014 NATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL: AMERICAN FAMILY HISTORIES: LOST, FORGOTTEN, FOUND

Nick Kotz at 2014 National Book Festival August 30, 2014 Book Discussion on The Harness Maker’s Dream Nick Kotz talked about his book, The Harness Maker’s Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas. Nick Kotz spoke in the History and Biography Pavilion of the 14th annual National Book Festival, which was held August 30,2014, by the Library of Congress at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C.

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C-SPAN Broadcast National Archives — A Nation of Immigrants: How They Have Shaped America

Nick Kotz Panel-NARASaturday, May 31st, at 2pm EDST, C-SPAN will broadcast the National Archives panel discussion—A Nation of Immigrants: How They Have Shaped America moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Nick Kotz, author of The Harness Maker’s Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas, and featuring journalists Steven V. Roberts (From Every End of the Earth: 13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America) and Sanford J. Ungar (Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants)—on their weekend American History TV channel-C-SPAN3.  The program title is “Jewish Immigrants in America.”

For additional information about this engaging discussion:  http://series.c-span.org/History/Events/Jewish-Immigrants-in-19th-and-20th-Century-America/10737444336/.
To schedule an email alert before the program airs:  http://www.c-span.org/video/?319146-1/jewish-immigrants-america.
To check the C-SPAN-3 schedule by time zone:    http://www.c-span.org/schedule/?channel=3.
After the broadcast airs, C-SPAN will upload the video to their website.

 This National Archives program was presented in partnership with the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington in commemoration of Jewish American Heritage Month.

A TEXAS-SIZED PARTY!

partySeated in tents and around picnic tables in the shade of live oaks at the Kallison Ranch May 1947 gathering, visitors devoured barbecued beef and goat, quaffed Pearl and Lone Star beer, cheered at a rodeo with bull riding and steer-tying contests, and examined a display of the farm products sold at Kallison’s “Big Country Store.”

Bootleggers!

Bootleggers in the Family? (Who knew!)

bootleggerWith the help of documents from the National Archives, Nick Kotz uncorked secrets bottled in his family’s past. Here is the photographic “evidence” in the government’s prohibition case against his Russian-born grandfather Nathan Kallison: hooch-making supplies for sale in the Kallison Block Building (June 1927). The verdict: Not guilty!  Did the feds target immigrant shopkeepers rather than crack down on major league bootleggers? Read more about the case on page 101 in The Harness Maker’s Dream: Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas.

On May 14th at 7 pm at the National Archives, Nick Kotz will moderate a panel The National of Immigrants: How they Have Shaped America featuring Steve V. Roberts, New York Times bestselling author of From Every End of the Earth: 13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America, and Sanford J. Ungar, President of Goucher College and author of Fresh Blood: The New American Immigrants. For details go to www.nickkotz.com  or view the Archives Calendar of Events at www.archives.gov/calendar.  This program is free and open to the public.