We will begin this weekend with Alice Baumgartner she recalls lives of slaves escape the south from mexico. Would like to welcome everyone to this webinar. We are tremendously gratified by your interest. In joining us we have hundreds of you out there today which is very, very exciting. We are here to engage in a conversation with my usc friend and colleague Alice Baumgartner and distinguished american historian from texas a m university. This is all being made possible by the publication of alices book, south to freedom, runaway slaves to the civil war. An exciting project of the intersection of a number of fields. The history of mexico, the sectional crisis of civil war, the history of slavery. It is a remarkable accomplishment, i want to congratulate alice on the publication of the book. And i want to think the professor for joining us as well. Our plan is to have professor baumgartner offers some opening remarks and imagery on the making of this work through talented scholarship. A
National security, veterans affairs, and adherence to constitutional principles. During todays conversation congressman gates discusses his new book firebrand a book he is quoted as saying is your invitation for the front lines of our fight. Join me with ivan diaz, Energy Images and stories, this is not my chronological diary, you can watch me on television for that. This is how we prevail with joy and exactly how unexciting president is leading the way against all odds. We now invite you to enjoy our Virtual Program coming to you from our air for one leadership pavilion with ab congressman matt gaetz, welcome to the ablibrary at which we had you here and not socially distance as you are on the different coast but what a terrific congratulations. Thank you so much it was a joy writing it and its particularly a joy to participate in a vibrant movement in our politics today. Whether one is on the political right or political left what we see is a lot of Energy Passion and enthusiasm, i w
You pull them together in this book with a larger argument about the failures of liberalism. I thought it might make sense for you to. [inaudible] reading a little bit from that introduction. Oh, sure. Absolutely. The emphasis in essays in this book were written in response to the Anglo American delusions that climaxed in brexit, the election of donald trump and, finally, a calamitous response to the covid19 outbreak. These range from the 19th century dream of imperial liberalism long championed by the colonists in which capital, goods, jobs and people freely circulate through the proclamation of an American Century of free trade and modernization, the attempt by american cold warriors to seduce [inaudible] away from communist revolution and into the gradual u. S. Alternative or consumer capitalism of democracy to the catastrophic humanitarian wars and demagoguic explosions of our times. Wrote in 1957 at the height of the cold war are the fanatics of western civilization who regard the
Thank you for going to show us around memphis today. Producer,rd winner you have been a lifelong resident of memphis. Yes. I been here all my life and i grew up, i had a crazy childhood growing up with the temptations of the house and the duty , just yound al green know all these cool people. We will go by the stax museum into the civil rights cesium and the Lorraine Hotel in just some cool memphis places. Should we go . Were going into the downtown now. Townis is a cool part of this just been under development for the past 10 years. Blacks is predominantly and any of maybe 60 africanamerican. Know, i think the Race Relations today are way cooler than they used to be an memphis have a lot of nightclubs and restaurants where you see blackandwhite and all races, all classes. We are driving on to beale street right now, beale street is known as the main through way for memphis. Beale street, nicole at the home of the blues because this bobby blue king and bland and all the blues greats ca
Circumstances of the assassination of president john f. Kennedy. To dealy plaza to recreate that fatal motorcade ride. Believing rifle tests conducted by the Warren Commission were less than adequate, we conducted a test. We found new evidence and film that the killer had more time to get the shots off. And we concluded that beyond reasonable doubt, oswald was at least one of the killers. But was there more than one . Interviewedght we eyewitnesses that said all the shots came from the School Book Depository. We tested, more exhaustively than did the Warren Commission, the controversial single bullet theory. We found that one bullet could indeed have wondered the president and governor connolly. Dr. Breakhe autopsy saye years of silence to that he has reexamines the president s body and so has no doubts that all shots came from behind. There was no second gunman. But even as the only gunman, was oswald, as the Warren Commission reports, a lone gunman . We found that a partial descripti