Welcome to book prints, a new Program Sponsored by ambassadors of American History. Im the president of the institute. We are preventing important books in American History which leaves the 18thcentury volumes behind me our current important books by the major prizewinning historians in our country. Also, william roka works on the health and education program. We present each of these historians and guide questions and answer sessions toward the end. Please go to our website, Gilder Lehrman. Com. Good afternoon. On june 14th, welcome, everyone. Todays guest will be professor elizabeth baron. For you guys who are not familiar with the Gilder Lehrman institute, we are so glad you could join us and to tell you a little bit about the Gilder Lehrman instituted is a Nonprofit Organization dedicated to k12 history, education, our mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American History through educational programs. We also provide direct access to unique primary source materi
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 this is not something that 40, 50, 70 years later we were saying that was a mistake back then but they had their reason for it, they had no reason at the time except to uphold what they thought was a patriotic duty. For the record, i want to get some of this on the screen so people can have the reference. First of all, the chief justice at the time was hare land fisk stone . Hare land fisk stone. He was appointed by herbert hoover. He was a republican but he was he wouldnt be a republican today because he was, in fact, one of the great chief justices weve had. There were also a number of other names that have become famous to people who dont even know much about the court. You mentioned william o. Douglas. Frank murphy and robert jackson. 7 of the 9 members with the exception of Justice Jackson and justice stone had been appointed by franklin roosevelt. They were the new deal justices. When roosevelt threatened to pack the court in
Now enjoy a book. Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the Gilder Lehrman book break on june 14. Welcome everyone. Todays guests will be professor Elizabeth Varon in her book armies of deliverance prefer you who are not familiar with the Gilder Lehrman institute of American History we are so glad you could join us and to tell you a little bit about Gilder Lehrman the Gilder Lehrman institute is a Nonprofit Organization dedicated to k12 History Education while also serving the general public. Our mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American History. Occasional programs and other resources. We also provide direct access to unique primary source materials through Gilder Lehrmans amazing collections but if amazing collections but if youre in to sit out anymore about Gilder Lehrmans program and a collection please go to Gilder Lehrman. Org. My name is william and im your host. When im not hosting im usually working on the Hamilton Education program. You want to find o
Before we leave you this morning by 10 00am pockets maybe remaining along the coast to later this morning or even in the early afternoon. Temperatures thus far were in the mixture between 50s and 60s a lower 61, the east bay shoreline already antioch at 62 and for comparison sake most of the real estate is actually ahead of where it was this time from yesterday. The breakdown for you we cant take care of this morning, fog clouds by 11 00am were mostly sunny at 70 79 by mid afternoon, the temperatures are going to revisit the 80s in those inland valleys of looks like for today, but the real earnest warmup doesnt get here until the middle of the week well be talking all about that coming up in just a bit back to you. All right sounds good. Thank you dave a developing story that were following from overnight. Take a look at this video another fatal officer involved shooting leads to a fiery protests this time in atlanta. Youre taking a look at the that was burned down saturday where shark
Our subject for today is the atlantic slave trade, and the first thing i want to say about it is that we have a big subject, a tremendously important subject, and truly a difficult subject to deal with today. Its importance lies in its relationship to the transformation of the world in the early modern era. By that, i mean essentially three things. First, the origins and the rise of capitalism around the atlantic, beginning in the late 16th century and continuing thereafter to the present. Secondly, the establishment of european dominance around the world. This is another major theme to which the slave trade is connected. Then, finally, we are talking today about one of the very foundations of American History. America is the result of the meeting of three very old cultures and you might say continents. People from europe, people from west africa, and people from native america. Today, we are going to talk about one of those three pillars, the african slave trade. Now, i want to begin