Behalf of our board of directors and the small staff. I would like to thank you all for making as part of your week. I would also like to thank Jared Hardesty for traveling across the country. I would like to think cspan for filming us so those who cannot be your tonight can see it at a later date. And thank you to the Abigail Adams Historical Society for giving us this wonderful opportunity. Abigail a policy is a rich history abigails rich history inspires us every day. Midst oftly are in the a campaign for the Benjamin Lincoln house, which is our of theto purchase a home American Revolutionary war hero. Benjamin lincoln received the british word of surrender at yorktown, or as we like to tell schoolchildren, that is Benjamin Lincoln featured so prominently in the trumbull paining at the u. S. Capitol. He also served as constable and selectmen. He also came from a family that owned slaves. And two blocks from here there in the atticters of the Benjamin Lincoln home. Our next major exh
First we are going to talk about general william t. Sherman and what he did in 1865, at least the first stage of his campaign in 1865 when he left the state of georgia and began to move north into South Carolina. He built up a little bit of a base at the conclusion of that campaign and began to talk about heading north. The conclusion of the savanna campaign had a couple questions behind it, political questions, which he did not want to deal with, and a couple of military, after it was agreed he would be permitted to move to the north and go straight into South Carolina. There were repercussions for that on the confederate side and the folks on the Southern Side would begin to react to that. Of course, even as sherman was leaving atlanta, there were folks on the confederate side that reacted to what was going on. One of them, something of an alert fellow, general beauregard, reacted and saw what was on the way. And of course, technology is always a curse in here. There we go. He discus
Offering Historical Context but also reexamining and continuing to look at how we present history and information to our publics and making sure that we are part of a solution on the road and not part of the problem. So i am honored tonight and today to be joined by the secretary of the smithsonian institution, dr. Lonnie bunch. He is also and was the founding director of the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture, and, as a librarian, my first purchase, very recently, with online was his new book, a fools errand creating the National Museum of African American history and culture in the age of bush, obama, and trump. And so we appreciate you, dr. Bunch, for being with us today, and we have a lot of things we would like to cover. I hope you feel free to ask me a few questions too, but i really know that people have been very interested in your perspective on what is going on. And when we planned this, we had the Health Crisis that was going on. Since that time, another
[inaudible conversations] please welcome dr. Carla hayden and susan orlean. [applaus [applause] well, i have to start by, im carla Hayden Library of congress and i want to thank jamie and feline and the angels and the readers for allowing me to be with someone who hassle evaluat evaluated elevated libraries to such an extent. Thank you. Let me say there have been patron saints of libraries, Andrew Carnegie and stuff like that, about you you are now number one. I finally smacked down Andrew Carnegie. You have. Thats great. How does it feel to be the patron saint of librarians . When i started this book, i couldnt have anticipated that part of it. I was drawn in to the story because i really wanted to understand what happened in 1986 that this epic fire that closed the l. A. Library for several years, but more importantly, i wanted to understand why i cared about it so much. I ive often said to me if city hall burned down, i would have thought thats too bad and i assume theyll rebuild it
Serious readers. This made good evening ladies and gentlemen. And welcome to the yale bookstore. We are very pleased to have with us this evening doctor Jennifer Hirsch who is a professor of socio medical science at Columbia University who will be reading from and discussing her new book, sexual citizens, landmarks. You start to feel distressed by what im sharing obviously its fine to get up and take a break. The National Sexual assault hotline is 18656 hope. Its 1800656 hope. Austin was a sweet student, the story of bostons hot summer night had sex with his girlfriend is the sexy story in the book. Thats not the story im going to tell, sorry. But he was a good guy, he was the kind had developed a series of nicknames for the kind of orgasms his girlfriend had. He was committed to making sure that sex is something that felt good for her, too. But austin also sexually assaulted someone. He told us a story about a night freshman year he was in a room with his roommates girlfriends roommat