Exhaustion. 11,000 soldiers of the American Revolutionary army starving and freezing in Winter Quarters. Shivering sentinels keeping an wary eye on that well fit british forces, safe and warm and captured philadelphia. 20 miles to the southeast. Morning,one chilling 2000 of the ragtag colonials are without shoes, feet wrapped in rags. One third to one half of them are unfit for duty. Before this terrible winter is over, 3000 of them are to die. On the windswept hills and ridges, huts of clay with floors of dirt provide the only shelter. In all the leak lonely , whiteness, the only cover is blood that stains the drifting snow. A revolutionary poet says this for them bitter words and , bitter memories of the war of king george as they left their bloody footprints on the snows of valley forge. Yes, the revolutionary war could have ended here. Yet somehow, this winter of despair becomes the turning point of the revolution. Corps] from it, comes defeat for the , the birth of the United Stat
For that generous introduction. The phrase beyond my wildest dreams is kind of a throwaway phrase in our culture. But i thought maybe one day i write this book and people notice it, maybe one day the mayor of charleston will be holding it in front of an audience. [laughter] it tells the story of reconstruction and im going to read some passages from it some of which deal with the Police Department and some of which deal with the charleston mayor as the police chief and current mayor here is plain and poignant. We are all errors to something. We have no say we are born where we are and we have no say of what we inherit and what we dont. All we have control over is what we do with it. We are going to recount some of the triumphs of the city and the greatest tragedies so it is for all of you moving on from the tragedy of 2015, youve created this group. You decided intentionally to create this space where difficult issues in the community could be discussed. It would have been easy and hum
He struck out his own name from the registration book. They crossed out their names and dropping out of the school. With the events that were rocking him. Remarkably the northern correspondent noticed them in the library and failed to make the connection between that statue in and the student noting the bust of john hed calhoun and leaves it at that. Many northerners king apparently included assumed that when africanamericans share of the last names of leading white southern families that they or their families have been owned. White southerners did little to disabuse this. The races can no more agree in the same classes in school and college of a the kid of the family. There is no telling how he would agree to this. The bonds of whiteness that connected him to complete strangers among the states caucasian population. They railed in a letter over quotes. And political power. In the wake of henry haynes enrollment. They tendered their resignations in protest. He put out a statement. Thi
We are looking at really nice weather to start your friday and your weekend. 73 degrees outside right now. Temperatures out across long island are looking very nice. Were going to be seeing temperatures that start out around 66 in brook haven, 63 around west hampton. 64 white plains, 58 around poughkeepsie. This afternoon we get to 82. Some absolute gorgeous weather. Were going to talk about a beautiful weekend coming up in your accuweather sevenday forecast. Heathers looking at your commute this morning. Not going so well through westchester. Right near exit 32 this is an ongoing accident investigation. You can expect a lot of delays northbound on the sawmill. Lets show you how things look as you travel across the Staten Island expressway. This is the eastbound side into the area of south avenue. This delay is all because of ongoing construction there thats been with us all week long. This is the bqe as you travel on the northbound side making your way up into the Brooklyn Bridge. We
I am an assistant professor of history at the university of maryland. Im going to be chairing the panel. Im going to offer some brief comments, some thoughts and questions i had to start generating conversation. Our threeto introduce presenters. If we are going to go in the order they appear on the program. They will speak for roughly 20 minutes. Our first presenter is going to be Graham Hodges. He has written on africanamericans and labor in new york city. He has written a political biography on underground railroad activities. He is working on a book and we will hear his ideas about the the secondrea printer is going to be as associate professor of history at northwestern university. U. S. After the war and emancipation. Our third presenter is going to be philip prop. Troutman. He is working on a project that essentially explores of the literature and the images of radical antislavery during the antebellum period. We will hear about his approach that combination of literature and ima