America. Benjamin franklin slavery and the American Revolution. He has written for the New York Times book review, Boston Review and the atlantic, among other publications. And he is joined in conversation by annette gordonreed professor at harvard university. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award, and she is the author of six books. Her honors include fellowships from the guggenheim and macarthur foundations and the National Humanities medal. She shes a fellow of the American Academy of arts and sciences, the American Philosophical Society and the british academy. Tonight, they are here to discuss the odyssey of Phillis Wheatley, a poets journeys through american slavery and independ. Since this new biography is the fullest account to date of wheatleys life and works and carrie greenidge writes in the New York Times book review that the odyssey of Phillis Wheatley is at once historical biography at its best literary analysis, at its sharpest and a subversive indic
Welcome to American Historical Association congressional briefing on immigration along the southwestern and and southern border of United States. These often get conflated as we just talking about in ways that are not necessarily productive, even though weve done it ourselves. Im jim glassman, the executive director of the american historical. Because this program been on covid induced hiatus for three years, id like to quickly provide at least a little of context for what well be doing this morning, as many of you know, are obsessed with context, which is why were here. The hhs congressional briefings date back to 2005, provide staff, journalists and others in the policy community with the historical background necessary to understand the context of current legislative concerns. The program rests on the premise that has a history and that anyone involved in influencing policies, decisions of any kind, whether in corporate world, government nonprofit world, influencing and decisions of
Welcome to American Historical Association congressional briefing on immigration along the southwestern and and southern border of United States. These often get conflated as we just talking about in ways that are not necessarily productive, even though weve done it ourselves. Im jim glassman, the executive director of the american historical. Because this program been on covid induced hiatus for three years, id like to quickly provide at least a little of context for what well be doing this morning, as many of you know, are obsessed with context, which is why were here. The hhs congressional briefings date back to 2005, provide staff, journalists and others in the policy community with the historical background necessary to understand the context of current legislative concerns. The program rests on the premise that has a history and that anyone involved in influencing policies, decisions of any kind, whether in corporate world, government nonprofit world, influencing and decisions of
Spent about one third of the time ripping on the president , he gave me a call. The next morning early on, he actually really like the speech. He told me that he watched it on t. V. And thought it was great which i thought was really weird. The president watches t. V. . [laughter] so this dinner, the rtca dinner, the first dinner was 73 years ago. You know, you want to get the stories that they go on about the first night. It was incredible [applause] look ai should not rip like that because chuck and nancy are not here this evening. I regret that it is not possible. Apparently it is been all night at the white house tonight. [laughter] look, i understand adam to be her as well. Cannot blame a guy. That guy has a big job. You think those couple of minutes on msnbc are going to do themselves . I will admit, i am looking around and i see that you are really welldressed people. They told me that this thing was blacktie. I had to tell you, i thought that you were all about relaxing the dre
Was the plea deal that was agreed to on monday. And just a short time ago the judge approved the terms of that deal. Lets take a look at the details here. 12 months, thats the sentence. And former Fairfax Police officer adam torres has already been behind bars for about ten months now. And hes going to get credit for that time already served. So he will be free very soon, were told. Now, under the deal torres pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, thats a lesser charge. He had been facing seconddegree murder. Now, the victim, john gere, unarmed involved with a confrontation with police on the doorstep of his springfield home in 2013 following a domestic call to police. Now, torres opened fire killing the father of two. Now, the victims mother spoke in court just a little while ago. She said where is the justice for john. And just a short time ago within the last half hour she spoke to the media in front i would like him to have gone to the penitentiary for some years. So that ever