Virginia, having earned her, one of her m. A. s and phd at the university of virginia. At oberlin, she created the history design lab that allows students to develop scholarly projects involving methodological approaches that range from digital humanities, exhibit design, oral history, podcast, historical fiction and public history. Remember what i said earlier about our speakers and their commitment to mentorship and education. Shes the author of essays published in 2018 and 2019 in the civil war and transformation of american citizenship. As i was preparing this introduction, i read her work in the flagship journal civil war history, part of a roundtable discussion about new civil war revisionism. Her book manuscript, mentioned in your printed program at the women,ld of slavery, slavery and the boundaries of freedom in washington, d. C. Is now under contract, i am pleased to say. It explains how black women in the Nations Capital made claims to liberty during the civil war. It is fro
Causation . Im going to come to that. I dont know. You have been talking long enough. [laughter] you can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Said john miller, what did you do here . Guest im the director of the Journalism Program which means i oversee a program that includes a campus newspaper and a Radio Station and a bunch of scholarships and i keep some classes. Host what dow . The dow is the dow, great michigan, a business name from midland, michigan,. Host and that contributed to hillsdale . Guest the program is named after herbert h. Dow, an individual gift but hes of that family. Host what do you do at National Review . Guest im a writer for National Review. Ive been on the staff for 18 years. It was a fulltime job for a long time. I lived in washington, d. C. And worked out of the washington bureau. Five years ago i got recruited to come to hillsdale and i remain on the staff of the National Review but its become very much a parttime thing. Host you are from mi
Welcoming Chandra Manning. Thanks to all of you for coming today. Im surprised to see anybody. With the election just three days ago and the outcome we know will make history going forward, i was not sure if anybody would care about what happens 150 years ago but im glad you did. The story really matters. It is a story of refugees at the center of american history. A story of success and failure and how those things are often intertwined, a story about making and defining citizenship not once and for all but on an ongoing day in day out basis. It affects all of us bearing responsibility. What i want to do is talk about how this book came about. I will give you a glimpse into what it says. I want to ask if any of you have been to a psychorama . Do you know what it is . An enormous secular painting. One is the battle of gettysburg, it is 377 feet long and 42 feet high. Imagine a football field end to end including the end zone, 42 feet high, and every inch is painted in intricate, exquis
About the fragile and chaotic nature of the freedom and enduring dignity of the people who secured it. W join me in welcoming chandra manning. [applause] thank you. Thank you very minute to all of you for coming today. Im a tiny bit surprised to see anybody. With an election just three days ago and an outcome that we know is going to make history going y forward, im i wasnt quite sure if anybody would show up ay but im glad you did. He its a story of refugee see center of American History and skis do ash story about page asking defining citizenship as a day in and dayout basis. Want to talk about how thisf particular book came about, how i came to write it. Ill give you a glimpse into what it says and then id like to end with what i hope this book achieves. Wayne to start by being if any of you have ever been to a. Psychorama, an enormous painting, a sicker already th sicker you walk into thee middle of it and every inch is painted. Y inch in intricate, elaborate detail. Thats a sick l
Introduce Chandra Manning of the Radcliffe Institute for study at Harvard University and not their what this cold war was over. A calf a wholly original play but it was like to escape slavery, how emancipation happened and how citizenship in the United States was transference. In the wall street journal, mark smith plays the troubled refuge striking with a highly engaged narrative with this sobering ineptitude started the Journey Towards freedom. In her superb telling, we learn something valuable about the fragile chaotic major the coming of freedom and the dignity encouraging the people who secured it. Please join me in welcoming Chandra Manning. [applause] thank you very much to love you for coming today. To tie you the truth, im a tiny bit surprised to see anybody with an election just three days ago and an outcome that we know will make history Going Forward i wasnt quite sure if anybody would show up to listen to what happened 150 years ago, but im really glad he did because they