Emancipation. It documents the end of slavery, family ties and private victories and challenges facing the newly freed. The New York Times review of his , edwardook baptist declared that ira berlin ranks as one of the greatest historians of slavery in the United States. When people argue about what the past means, they are usually debating about the present and it would be hard to think of a period in American History more relevant to the present then reconstruction era. The arguments about whether reconstruction worked, what to do today to ship tomorrow shape tomorrow. Ira berlin has written extensively on American History Atlantic World in the 18th and 19th century. Please welcome ira berlin. [applause] professor berlin thank you so much for that very, very generous introduction. Said, archivist to whenever i come back to the national archives, i feel like im coming home. The first volume of the project came out in 1982, but we had been working at the archives since 1975. , we hadbee
They were more valued, then listened more, tried to understand what they wanted and needed, plus the fact that some of these women a surprise themselves and then to ice supposed by becoming brighter waiters and decisionmakers. Goldmining is no sure income and meanwhile the children are hungry, so these women would have a boarding houses or bake pies or took in a laundry and they were successful, much more successful that earning income than their husbands or a goldmining. I would like them to get a sense of sacramento is a rich history and what i have done is try to present it through the womens point of view, what they experienced, with a witness, so there is that aspect of it and also an appreciation of what these women were like. Each of the women in here led different kind of life and came from a different place. They had different goals. Of course, they had the same goals also that women today have and they want a safe place for their children to be raised. They wanted schools, ho
I would want to hear you say. It is so easy to say this person is an atheist were going to have to step outside our comfort zone. [inaudible question] we have become without my state. The head at least two people that voted. He showed up. That simple. Person went on to tell his family he had become a republican. Is that i appreciated, but it starts with that showing up being involved. I dont think its rocket science. That is how you grow. Would you talk about your own similar experience . The infamous bush versus gore. I would never try to tell you had about. I was not political. Im conservative. Well, my initial interest because of the Clinton Lewinsky affair. I have another question. The chair give a report i dont know if you have read the book, but they were good. I believe it starts have a lot in common. Their spiritual minded. If you walk in there with the mentality of the people come become successful. Case in. , that had very positive mindset, 25 on a minority members. For examp
This is our twiceayear book fair where we have 60 dealers from all over the west coast to come to exhibit. We use sort of to differentiate ourselves from what might be like a book fair at a school, because if we just say book fair, people dont necessarily what it is. But what we sell here isnt necessarily old, a better definition might be old and collectible but there are many relatively modern books here for sale. Some of the specialties that dealers have, Childrens Books are very popular, cook books, cowboys, indians, gold mine, world travel, specially china and japan but all over world travels, anything with maps, say like captain cook. Anything done by him is very popular. It depends really on the dealer. Were all individual businesses so we all represent what we like or what we think is interesting or valuable. This is a fun, small row book fair to do. The camaraderie of getting to see old friends out a semi regular basis. Being a bookseller, we are all recluses back home and this
The immigration of the mon a monarchs. Few are taking flight. Good morning, welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im Morgan Radford, live from new york city. The next chapter of the ukraines political crisis is unfolding. Polls of opening in the black sea peninsula, crimea. They are voting whether to join russia or become more independent of ukraine. The e. U. And u. S. Called the vote illegal. Lets go to Jennifer Glasse in the crimean city of sevastopol. 1. 5 Million People are eligible to vo. How eligible to vote. How is ut turn out so far . This is a heavily ethnic russian city. Its its own region, and will count its own votes and announce its own results. Crimea we are up in central crimea this morning, and despite rain here, snow up in central crimea where it was freezing this morning. People were coming out in large numbers. Not everyone is going to vote here. Its a divided country. The crimean tat tars are boycotting the vote. Ethnic ukrainians feel they dont have a stake. Theres two q