Books, hisng forthcoming book is southern journey. Welcome, it is an honor to have you. Edward my pleasure, thank you. Jeffrey Joanne Freeman is a class of 1954 professor of American History and american studies at yale university, where she specializes in the politics and political culture of the revolutionary and Early National periods. She is a cohost with edward ayres of a Popular History podcast backstory. It is great to unite these copodcasters together. And she is the author of many books as well, including the pathbreaking. As well as field of blood. Joanne, it is such an honor to have you with us. Joanne thanks for having me. Jeffrey Norman Ornstein studies politics, elections, and the u. S. Congress. His books include one nation after trump, a guide for the perplexed, the disillusioned, the desperate, and not yet departed. And there are other titles, the next one, we did at the Constitution Center. And it depressed us even before we begin the program. It is even worse than it
Quite often and many of our most greatest decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go to a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believed in a rule of law. Cspan and the National Constitution center. Welcome you to the land more cases. Our 12 part history series. Exploring the people and the stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most famous dissidents. Tonight, we will be learning more about the dred scott case of 1857. Let me introduce you to our two guests to tell us about the history and impact of this case. Chris bracey is at George Washington University Law school professor. He is also the coeditor of a book called the dreads caught case and contemporary perspectives. Welcome. Martha jones is at the university of michigan. She is a history professor there and also the chair of afro american and codirector of the race line his
On tuesday, october 2, the National Archives will host a for jamesook launch and mcphersons newest book mcphersons newest book. Todays lecturer is alexander for libertyhor of and equality the life and times of the declaration of independence. He has also written on slavery and reconstruction, the 13th. Mendment, and American Freedom they have appeared or will in a variety of lobar views across the country including the columbia law review, cornell law review, university of california davis law review, Boston College log review, connecticut log review, and wake log review. Is a frequentis presenter nationwide on issues regarding constitutional law, civil rights, reconstruction of the american creed, and hate speech legislation. Please join me in welcoming tsesis to the National Archives. [applause] thank you so much for that kind introduction and i appreciate you making time to hear this presentation. From the time of its signing on july 4, 17 76, the declaration of independence has set
This course, and my what ground we have covered thus far. We have more to cover because we are coming up to the 1850s now. We are talking about the crises of the 1850s that really begin with the compromise of 1850 that moved into the kansasnebraska act of 1854, and we are going to see still more earthquakes occurring. But as we do this, we have a character that we have to meet who is going to play a central role in this entire course, and that is Abraham Lincoln. We touched very briefly in our last session by way of introduction of lincoln, and just to go through some of the details once again, Abraham Lincoln is born in 1809, born the 12th of february. His parents are thomas and nancy hanks lincoln, and lincoln himself is born in hodginville, kentucky in a log cabin quite literally. In 1818, his parents uproot from kentucky and move northwards across the ohio river into southern indiana. That is where lincoln grows up. Alas, that is also where lincolns mother dies. Lincolns father goe
Welcome you offer todays talk. I wish to welcome all of your viewers watching us at home on cspan today as well as is watching us live from the National Archives history channel. Before we get to the topic, id ofe to highlight a couple our new programs coming of the next few weeks. The 220 anniversary of the u. S. Constitution next month, a number of programs and special events. 26, thesday, september president of czars. Livewill also be streamed over the history channel. On tuesday, october 2, the andonal archives will host. Uthor for his latest work about these and are other programs, please visit our website. If youre unable to attend in person and would like to get an autographed copy of the book, please call the archive and dont forget to request the 50 discount. Todays lecture is the author of for liberty and equality, the life and times of the declaration of independence. As well as being an author, he is an associate professor of law in chicago. His other books are we shall ove