The arsenal at harpers ferry. There is no mention of the there thought of freeing the slaves. T theres none of that. None of it does it imply. Does it imply that it was a good thing . Oh, no. Its almost encyclopedic. A its one of those entries like e let me get the facts down and lets be done. Done. In fairness, most were done like that. Its odd they would have fas commemorated that. The it, too, is part of john t brown is part of kind of a segregationist memory,ever white supremacist memory, as wa well, because everyone agreed that john brown was crazy, right . In my High School History rown d textbook, we had a picture of john brown and there was an aust article that studies pictures or john brown because there are fairly neutral pictures of john brown and then there are pictures that make him look crazy. My textbook had the crazy picture. And my picture had the caption, john brown, possibly a monomaniac. Nice neutral statement for your history textbook. So the booklet is fascinating
If plattsburgh had been lost, god knows what wouldve happened to this country. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] she also details the societal attitudes towards impoverished minorities at the time, focusing on the challenges faced by single mothers. This class is about an hour and 45 minutes. Ur 45 minutes. So, today were talking about the war on poverty, and the urban crisis in the late 1960s in the United States. And were looking at the ways in which the black Freedom Movement raised the issues of poverty, and of racial disadvantage. Really to a level of national attention, and National Action that we havent really seen at any time since. So i want to start just by well, first i should lead you through the outline quickly. Well talk about the ways in which americans at the time thought about black poverty. How did they interpret it. What causes did they think about. And then, what solutions, therefore, did
It depicts this mythical encounter of brothers, one fighting for the union, one for the confederacy. Theyre embracing. If youre close enough you could see the Union Soldier has real shows, the southern soldiers shoes are falling apart. It is brandnew. Its next to, or across the hall from the plaques that talk about secession in a complicated way. But even though i think that this is very much all about reconciliationist memory, i dont know how you could possibly be more about reconciliationist memory than this, i do think that the narratives are changing and much more complicated. We had a candid conversation about slavery. We had a candid conversation about the ways in which the end of slavery became part of the Union Mission during the war. We had a capped identification conversation about reconstruction. Public narratives are shifting a little bit. But i was also kind of curious, and i only had a little bit of time to do some research for this. Virginia, of course, is the northern p
Tell you think that maybe arent so honest to make me look good so im not going to do that. Its a temptation but im not going to do that but i will say i think smith taps into a wisdom that is millennial old. I am jewish. I have drawn a lot of parallels between smith and tolstoy. They are parallels between smith and a lot of great ethical thinkers of history so theres nothing new under the sun. As i say in my book money doesnt make you happy its not really a new idea. The hard part is to internalize it. The hard part is actually turn down the consulting opportunity thats really lucrative because your life is not a great argument to be putting forward. Thats the challenge. The challenge is i fell down, im in a hospital. Can you make me dinner and you actually do it and give up watching the game he wanted to watch with the red socks right . Thats hard to do. If you do it once its great. If you do it all the time you are a saint and i think we could all be a little more saintly. Thats the
We have a board of directors consisting of judges who sit in three divisions of the Eastern District the ox andrea and north which division and we have attorneys to serve on the board as well. By tying the story of the Historical Society is a story of really some very key people that help society get started in 2006 and i would like to think the specific individuals. The first is u. S. District judge james spencer. He was the chief judge for the same district in 2006 and instrumental in helping our society get it started. There were several judges involved in the project that we will hear about today the society itself but there are a couple that deserve no. U. S. District judge Claude Hilton who sits in the Alexandria Division was sentimental and judge henry martin junior who sits in the Northern District in u. S. Bank Bank Bankruptcy judge just as the thais who retired in 2013 was a bankruptcy judge in richmond. Last but not least on the stage u. S. District judge henry hutson. Judge