Here they bought tickets for a thousand places in america. Here they traded their drachmas, their liras, and their rubles, for dollars. Here they sang their First American songs, experienced their First American christmas, and hanukkah. Here they waited to be given permission to pass over to the new land. Tens of millions of us have relatives who came this way, sat in this room, part of the largest human migration in history. Of the many who came, some were turned away. But even they would leave part of themselves in america, to remind us why they had come so far, why they had made the journey. Woman you never know how hard it was to leave her. That was the hardest thing i think i ever had to do. Man she said if you leave, why, i dont ever want you to come back again. Woman long hard life it was. Narrator europe had always lost its children to america, and now there were new reasons to leave. Industrial change and political unrest brought increased joblessness and poverty to italy and
The social science division. He received his masters and phd in history from the university of south carolina. Around, he is an avid fan. He has been a member of the faculty since 2005. He previously taught history at Jefferson Davis Community College. Some do not associate the Community College with scholarly production of writing and research. He proves the addition to the academic discussion of history and events is alive and well in Community College. This is his third book to be published. He has appeared on syndicated programs in support of those works. He has published Opinion Pieces on current events. While doing all that, he and his wife have found time to raise a family. They have a son and three daughters. I know they are very busy. We need to get on with the reason we are here tonight. I am pleased to introduce the author of the Founding Fathers guide to the contribution constitution, brion mcclanahan. [applause] brion how are you doing . Great. Thank you for coming, i appr
Tls and panamerica, and its a total delight to discuss the issue of free speech which never seems to go away. As i edit a literary magazine, i thought id begin things with a literary angle. In britain he wrote the polemic against [inaudible] and in it he said this which has continued to resound, give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties. But before we get mistyeyed though, he also said this those which otherwise come forth, if they be found mischievous and libelous, the executionist will become the remedy to follow. He was the godfather of i believe in Free Expression but, which has been active as a brigade ever since. As were going to discuss over the next 50 minutes, free speech is never in practice absolute. The question before us today is how much it should be championed over other rights, especially in universities. And those rights might include the right not to be offended, but also the right to live free from abuse and
You can watch them on our web site, booktv. Org. Booktv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what theyre reading. Heres what oklahoma congressman Steve Russell had to say. I read all kinds of stuff. Im a voracious history reader. Not much onion fiction although there are some. I just finished a fiction book, i should say im not much on fiction. But i did just finish a fiction book by Derek Robinson that was kind of a british antiwar protest on a world war i setting, and it kind of reflects the times. But i have a great interest in world war i. My great grandfather and his brothers were world war i veterans, one of my relatives is buried in france, killed in the first world war. And since were in the 100th anniversary of our entry into that war and our participation in the campaigns, ive been reading quite a bit about that time. Congressman, youre also an author as well. Could you kind of talk about your experience as an author . Well, it is i have a Great Respect fo
We are honored to have you here today. I am chairman of the in the league club authors group. And to have all of you here today. We have a couple tables from our American Legion post here. So Everybody Knows who you are. And the American Legion post. So whether it was books or dvds or cds or even ipods, batteries, some of the things that theyd let us know that they needed, and we collected a few boxes and sent them to the troops. Each year its gotten bigger and bigger and bigger, and i think last year we sent over 300 boxes to the troops, and we collected a lot of money which, of course, if you come to the event and you havent brought a set of batteries, you dont need to feel bad because we have, like, 25 bags, 50 bags, 100 bags, 40,000 bags if you want to bring that. And well fill them full of things that they need. So thats on november 8th starting at 6 00, and youll see here who our speakers are, and they are equally spectacular. So i hope youll come and bring whatever you can. Brin