Nomination, and Adlai Stevenson accepted the nomination. In 1948 the first televised conventions where president harry truman accepted his partys nomination. The failure to do anything about high prices and the failure to do anything about housing. My duty as president requires that i use every means within my power to get to laws the people need on matters of such importance and urgency. And at 6 00 on american artifacts, well take an early look at the new Smithsonian Museum of African American history and culture with its director, lonnie bunch. The museum opens its doors to the public in september this year. Were able to get an amazing collection of movie posters such as the ones behind you. Thats an early movie poster from the 1920s. And that is part of our job to help people relearn the history they think they know. That movie poster is from spencer williams. He is known by most people playing amos andy. Yet he was one of the most important black film directors in the 30s and 40s.
Into law by lincoln five years earlier and the only one in that original group founded in lincolns home state. Indeed one of the reasons i was drawn to come to illinois last year to take the job as law dean is the prospect that the university of illinois can build upon the legacy of, and become linked with lincoln in the way the university of virginia is associated with Thomas Jefferson. Who to my mind was not as great a president and not as great a person. This brings me to a fourth question, why bob woodward . That might be the easiest one of all. Many people consider the New York Times the countrys newspaper of record. But bob woodward of the rival Washington Post is americas reporter of record. He has been at the post for 45 years and is responsible for two of its Pulitzer Prizes for investigative coverage of water gate and also 9 11. But mr. Woodward is much more than a reporter. He has an inciteful and prolific historian of, among other things, americas president s. In this regar
Women and distinctions of gender. We are not guiloing to talk abo all of distinctions today but well deal with this question of whos black and some way set the table for the rest of the sessions during the next two days. My colleagues on the platform, most of you know who they are. They a their bios are in the program. Miles, just to the left of me at the university of michigan, sheshe does just about everything, africanAmerican Culture and native American Culture and going down the list it is quite impressive. My colleague at the university of maryland. Elsah Barkley Brown will lead off our discussion today trying to put a frame on what we would like to talk about and the next to elsah and at the end cleaning out for us is debra graywhite. Appearing in that order according to the instructions that we have been given that i have been given. According to the instructions that i have been given, everybody has ten minutes or theyre about to give a generous ten minutes but not that genero
Ways about the war. And so its very hard to its very hard to pin that down. But i really think that the kinds of evidence that im looking at, it is not just data. These are the words that the participants used, and everyone says nothing but slavery. Now you mentioned in passing, reconstruction. Thats a whole nother book and whole nother field. But basically my take on reconstruction, very subjective. Just like Everything Else ive been saying. Reconstruction would not have been so bad if the southerners had done had responded appropriately to what the war was about, and that, in good faith, ended slavery and truly ended slavery, and slavery relate practices and provided blacks with the right to participate in politics, to vote, and to have representatives in government which was only allowed for the short time while the north was there to enforce it. So the stories about all the economic ravages on the south, there wasnt much left to ravage. And what the south was really concerned about
It featured profiles of seven american icons were control freaks, from Thomas Jefferson to steve jobs. These were people with character disorders that had difficulty relating to other people but were amazing movers and shakers. And i wrote a chapter on jefferson. And jefferson, of course, is americas most articulate proponent of freedom and most articulate enemy of tyranny. But with his own daughters, he was a control freak. He told them what to do, what to wear. So here he is, and jefferson also was an amazing politician. We all know how brilliant he was. But in the election of 1804 he 74 of theed by vote. It brought up the question of how one leads a nation and how one leads a family. Jefferson was a great visionary thinker and a great leader, but as a dad, soso. He also neglected his daughters a little bit. When he goes to paris, he sticks them at a convent school. One of his daughters famously had to be shepherded from london when she comes to visit him in paris. And so this questi