British writer diana, i regret we cant be with you in person this evening at the Ronald Reagan President Foundation institute. But we are here both spirit and virtually our foundation. Toby philanthropies is proud to support George Shultz fellowships and lecture series. We established this program in december of 2020 in honor of georgias hundredth birthday. It was pleased to have his legacy enshrined in this manner. One short month later, we said goodbye to him, as you all know, George Shultz had an illustrious career in government academe and in the business world. He was a mentor to many myself. He was also my journalist friend, taught our privilege to play a part in distinguished scholars together for a series of roundtable such as this evenings program, which honors georgias life leadership and legacy. We look forward to a future occasion where we can meet with you in person. Thank you for being here this evening. My name is Anthony Eames and i am the director scholarly initiatives
Step out of partisan boxes and work with me to find Real Solutions to real problems. Weve done it time and time again. This time it didnt work. Nearly four months later, im still deeply disappointed that we didnt solve the border crisis for my state and for our country. But to use this failure as a political punching bag only punishes those who were courageous enough to do the hard work of finding compromise in the first place. So, who will be courageous next time . Who will stand up and do the hard work . Who will take the risks . Who will say yes, ill help solve this big challenge our country faces . Why would anyone . We dont leave today with a political victory. No one wins. No one gets the higher ground. Instead, were saying to each other, dont step out, dont try to solve big problems, stay in your partisan corner, yell some more, blame the other side. Today, yet again, the senate has chosen politics. But my state is still suffering, and as i said on the floor back on february 7,
By celebrating emily this phenomenal panel and this phenomenal. Well, joining us on American History tv is beth bailey, a professor at the university of kansnd lawrence, the author of this book, an aus army confrs racial crisis in the vietnam era. Well talk about that in a minute. But dr. Ba, teach at duke . Mainly military history. Us military history, occasionally history, gender and sexuality, which was my previous incarnation before i became convert to military history. How did you get into military history . I hate say it, but it was actually a televisionommercial Army Recruiting commercial. They weredvertising postcold war pre 911. And really how do ll the army when supposedly is the end of history and its all resolved they were selling the army as social good as you know taking men who were either at risk potentially problematic for society and helping them become the people that they could be helping them not disappoint their third grade teacher or their mother, whomever who be
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Good evening and welcome to the bancroft Prize Program. Columbia University Library is cosponsors. This important event with the Columbia Department of history as our dedicated historians say, the work of historical scholarship is never finished and we reexamine it through present day lenses. Today, especially today, it seems it seems important to lift up that critical work of examining and reexamining history. History is happening right now, and i am grateful for all of the hard labor that goes into researching and writing history, including not only the history in, but also the labor of librarians, archivist sites, curators, editors, and other workers whose critical work, work and support deserves to be acknowledged. A jury is chosen each year by our history to award the prizes to outstanding historians of the americas. One of the leading historians and that department is selected to chair a panel of three jurors representing the finest scholars in the field from Excellent Research u