Monuments. This is in washington d. C. And they hosted the event and provided the video. I am pleased to introduce todays discussion, during the last several years, how we remember and memorialize the civil war has been a topic in the United States and we have seen a renewed interest in these conversations in the recent weeks. At this site of Political Violence and national memory, we see our work as looking not only to the actions of the past but also how the passed informs to these circumstances throughout the country and the world, people raise questions about the purposes of the leaders who supported or profited from slavery, whether in richmond, boston, or birmingham, monuments and statues have become a flashpoint for the black lives matter movement. Since 2015, ford has held an annual Summer Institute set in stone, memory, monument, and myths that has explored questions of remembrance and memorialization. Each year, we find the spring has brought new and urgent crises that requir
Bristol, england, boston, or birmingham, monuments and statutes have become a flashpoint for the black lives matter movement. Since 2015, ford has held an annual Summer Institute set in stone memory, monuments and myths that explores questions of remembrance and memorialization. Each year we find that spring has brought new and urgent crises that require attention and consideration and this year more than in any in recent memory, demands that and more. Today we explore some of these questions with you. Im pleased to welcome dr. Hillary green and kevin levin to todays cabinet conversation. Both dr. Greene and mr. Levin have written extensively on how a wide range of americans commemorate the civil war and reconstruction. They are currently coediting a book sharing different perspectives on civil war memorials. Theyve also been active in recent debates. Dr. Green is an associate professor of history in the department of gender and race studies and serves as a coprogram director of the Af
Off your cell phones or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. We are thrilled to tonight to welcome acclaimed historian mary beth norton, the author of five books and coeditor of several others inn her textbook people n the nation a survey of u. S. History has been published in ten additions and has sold mores than a 500,000 copies. Norton is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and 201 in the 2,018th president of the american historical association. She is the Professor Emeritus at cornell university. Her new book 1774 the long year of revolution is available for purchase following the program. So now please join me in welcoming mary beth norton. [applause] its really nice to be here. I want to make sure the clicker is on. It doesnt seem to be. There it is. Okay, great. I dont want to show that one quite yet. It is in the collections in the historical society, and it claims the label that is impossible to read unless so theres a quite wellknown object
To start off the afternoon, please welcome philip green walled, hes the cofounder, and the full time contributor to emerging civil war. He is the author or coauthor of two volumes in the emerging revolutionary war series in three volumes in the emerging civil war series. One of his books is downstairs. He graduated with a bachelor of arts degree from wheeling jesuit and has a graduate degree in history from george mason. He has a supervisory park ranger with the park service in florida. You can ask him about fun things he might have seen recently. With that, lets learn about why someone would want to burn down boston. There is a microphone. I am a park ranger in the everglades, so i did not bring any snakes, so everyone can stay in the first and second rows. Todays talk is centered on something farther north. Being a Baltimore Orioles fan, there are a number of reasons i want to see boston burn, especially fenway. Today is the road to revolution and boston at the center of that colonia
Change. Unlike anybody it was a First Responder somebody was a police officer, a fireman, and emt, paramedic, please stay on up. Thank you very much for what you do in keeping a safe every single day and thank you for the mission you do every single day for us. Now in tonight his program is absolute pleasure to have garrett back with us here in the last time he was here, you spoke about the government his doomsday plan from his last book, even rock. The story of the u. S. Government secret plan to save itself where the rest of us die. [laughter] and tonight we are welcoming back to the museum to discuss another various sovereign topic. The terror attacks of 911. Hes collected in 363 account told through the voices of the people who are experienced in his new book, the only plane in the sky. Scruff is in a distinguished magazine journalist bestselling historian and a regular tv commentator has brought more than a dozen years covering politics and technology and National Security. It is