Americas third president Thomas Jefferson, focusing on his words and actions on slavery and race. This video is courtesy of the university. Its from their great live s lecture series. I am pleased to announce a special miniseries of six lectures entitled great president ial lives. This series is particularly attractive for two main reasons. The first being its timeliness. A president ial election year, it will be an insight all of us can be in. The second is the speaker himself. Our esteemed umw professor, william b. Crawley, who has just completed 50 years on the faculty of the university of mary washington. During a half century, he has contributed in innumerable ways and significant ways. Certainly not least of all the creation of our renowned Historic Preservation program and the creation of this amazing great lives series. But it is for his excellence and teachings that he is perhaps best known, and to literally thousands of our students who have come through our halls, he has rec
Its hard to find an opening to my story. A tale of a small footnote in the history of our region. I can only write my own private memories of these 3 years of hope and anguish. Is this a tale of triumph. Or defeat. The ending to our story has not yet been written. If they werent believe im that stupid. Perhaps i should start with one decisive wednesday in july of 1902 professor he has failed call me up with a dangerous proposition to join him for a secret meeting with our sworn enemies the Palestinian Liberation Organization known to all as the p. L. O. Joined us fighting shoulder to shoulder with the palestinian revolution against the zionist and of palestine all of palestine is an era arab arab an arab. The p. L. O. Was a terrorist Organization Led by Yasser Arafat a man many israelis considered hitlers successor. Arafats believed in Armed Struggle fighting for palestinian freedom he took pride in the slaughter of the athletes at the munich olympics opening fire on schoolchildren in
Light was on. She america is in the war. Why did that such you so much . It had gone lucid. What did that mean for you and hungary . I didnt cry then. How old are you . I was 18. That interview with the late author john lucas. In depth was formed 20 years ago. Since 2000, 230 leading nonfiction and fiction authors have appeared on in depth. Alice walker, bob woodward, Neil Degrasse tyson, george will, just to name a few. Over the next 3 hours our goal is to review the last 20 years of in depth and to ask you a couple questions. Who was your favorite in depth the guest, what book are you reading now, and who is your favorite Nonfiction Author . We will be showing you video from the past 20 years but here is how you can dial in on the twentieth anniversary of in depth. 2027488200 for those in the east and central time zones, 2027488201 if you live in the mountain and pacific time zones and you can text him what your thoughts are as well, 2027488903. Text number only, 2027488903. Your fir
Here at georgetown, the institute for migration. Spent a great partner for several years now. We welcome them in and thank you for all of their collaboration here. Let me remind you the webinars being recorded. Will post this event on our event page and a day or two. If you preregister for the event you will get an email with a link to the video as well. This time i think we are all zoom veterans. Just in case your memories are not what they should be, you notice on the tabs at the bottom of the screen theres q a. As a good deal of time at the end begin submitting your questions as soon as they pop into your head. Do not wait until the end that gives us a chance to sort through them but the best ones to jessica. Im so pleased that jessica can join us. Shes written for the york times, the atlantic, the washington post, los angeles times, teen vogue, among other places preach as a phd in literature from the university of texas and she served as a melon writing fellow and interim Writing
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