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We are going to continue our wonderful afternoon with our next and it is my personal and absolute pleasure to introduce him to you my colleague, my friend, my mentor and the wonderful brains behind entire operation. This weekend, dr. Paul quigley. Dr. Quigley is the James Earl Robertson junior associate of civil war studies and, the director of the Virginia Center for civil war studies here at virginia tech. He is the author of shifting grounds nationalism. The american south, which received numerous awards including the association for american studies book prize and is currently writing a book on brooks. And i encourage you to ask about that. This afternoon he will be giving a talk entitled George Mcclellans expedition up the peninsula and into Early American History. Please join me in welcoming paul quigley. Thank you so much, mollie and thank you all for being here very much as can tell, i think from my title decided to go all in with theme of civil war journeys. Of course as the o
Brandeis university. Hes the author, the Award Winning book torchbearers of democracy, africanamerican in the world war one era, and the coeditor of charleston syllabus readings race, racism and racial violence. His writings and op eds have appeared in the atlantic, the washington post, time the conversation, joining him tonight is Henry Louis Gates jr. Alphonse Fletcher University and founding director of the hutchins for african and African American research at Harvard University and emmy peabody Award Winning filmmaker literary journalist, cultural critic and institute and builder. Professor gates, his most recent books are stony the road and the black church. This is our story. This our song. Tonight, they will discuss chads latest book, the wounded world a sweeping story of hope betrayal, disillusionment and transformation and a one of a kind glimpse into how a crucial moment of International Crisis impacted one of the greatest american intellectuals of the 20th century. Robin d.
tonight on 360, the latest moves in the former presidents attempt to avoid any criminal accountability for january six. and two cases that can make any president immune for anything that they do in office. also tonight, congresswoman aoc on her calls for clarence thomas to recuse himself after the appeal to stay on the colorado ballot. and reports tonight of bolts on the door applauds a boeing 737 max 9, after a terrifying incident in the sky that left a hole in the same model plane with few answers as to how it happened. good evening, thank you for joining us, we begin tonight with new developments in the former presidents push to make any criminal charges against him disappear. he will be an washington tomorrow in court by choice we should add. as a federal appeals panel hears oral arguments on his claim for presidential immunity in the january 6th case. today he filed an immunity claim on similar state charges in georgia. if they go his way, especially in the federal