Enigma of Clarence Thomas. As some of you know the kallman center selects 15 fellows a year for a nine month term. Fellows receive an office in the Center Access to our collections and a stipend so they can focus exclusively on their work during their fellowships. The fellows are some of the very best and most promising academics independent scholars poets playwrights journalists dramatists artists and fiction writers at work today. They come here from around the country in the world to use the unparalleled collections housed at this library to write the books of tomorrow. The program was founded in 1899 and to date it has supported the work of gordon 300 fellows. The deadline for applications of next year is friday. [laughter] its free. I encourage you to come back in november for free new exhibition that will open on the third floor of this Building Made at the New York Public Library will feature more than 30 works written right here with the support of this librarys collections, th
b coleman center for scholars and writers here at the library. as some of you know the common centers selects 15 fellows a year for a nine month term fellows receive an office in the center access to our collections and to stipend so they can focus exclusively on their work during their fellowships. the fellows are some of the very best and most promising academics independent scholars poets playwrights journalists dramatists artists and fiction writers at work today. they come here from around the country in the world to use the unparalleled collections housed at this library do write the books of tomorrow. the program was founded in 1999 into date. it has supported the work of more than 300 fellows the deadline for applications for for next year is friday. is free. i encourage you to come back in november for a free new exhibition that will open on the third floor of this building made at the new york public library. we ll feature more than 30 works written right here with
president for education policy and strategic initiatives at the american institute for research. so now please join me in welcoming. [applause] good evening thank you for that wonderful introduction. i like to start off tonight s event -based first offering a land acknowledgment birdlike to gratefully acknowledge the native people whose ancestral homelands we gather as well as the diverse communities who make their home in washington d.c. and for all of those streaming to acknowledge the land you re coming to us from. i am so excited and pleased about tonight s event both personally and also at the secretary of education. as you heard this is a special evening for us as we are doing in person and live streaming for the first time. and also that education has been at the cook core of the smithsonian mission sensor 175 your founding. in fact the spirit and purpose of the programming you will have tonight the smithsonian associates have been doing for 55 years through high-qua
Innovation process being really important. It is a great challenge. A lot of information together. I really enjoy the opportunity to learn. Animation is happening in the marketplace. My job is complete. When i think about headphones. I look at satellite products and different video products. So many different items that we had before. I get to learn a number of different products. That may not involve us today but in may involve us in the future. Monday night on cspan2. Next, John Mckee Barr talks about loathing lincoln an american tradition from the civil war to the present. He says in order to understand why lincoln is revered, it is important to understand the criticisms of his detractors. The Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia hosted this one hour 20 minute event. Good evening. I am former Vice President of the Lincoln Group in the District Of Columbia. It is my honor and privilege to invite tonights speaker, John Mckee Barr, a professor of history at Lone Star College kingw
Loathing lincoln is his first book, and he has started a blog. He updates weekly. I highly recommend it. It is very lively. It is loathinglincoln. Com. I highly recommend that to all of you. The book has received a lot of good attention, a lot of praise. I want to read you a couple summaries of what the book must be about. One is by our old friend marco. He said, paradoxically americas most revered president has also been its most reviled. As John Mckee Barr shows in his meticulous survey, detractors of the rail splitter have been a variegated crowd of strange bedfellows. Libertarians, neoconservatives white supremacists, black panthers. States rights advocates, and antiimperialist, among others. The arguments that have overlooked the confederacys central aim the right to own, exploit, and rape africanamericans and their descendents forever. Here is another comment i find particularly amusing, from an unnamed critic. From bitter, defeated critics after appomattox, and academics in our