Topics into the context of a broader American History. I will start off by introducing our panel then, everyone will give Opening Statements and then we will start the conversation. So, sitting right next to me is an assistant professor of history at purdue university. He holds a phd in colonial history from Johns Hopkins and is author of captives of history, prisoners of war and the American Revolution that will be released this fall at the university of pennsylvania. In addition to his book, hes published articles in the journal of the early republic the journal of military history in the new england quarterly. Hes currently at work on a project that is provisionally titled, patrick henrys war, the struggle for empire in the revolutionary west. Kelly Carter Jackson is a 19 century historian in the department of african ascites at wellesley college. Her book out from the university of pennsylvania was exclusively focused during antebellum activist. Shes coauthor and featured in the Hi
Test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test the war is about slavery. The Iowa Supreme Court declares segregated schools are unconstitutional under the iowa constitution. So that we have the precursor to brown before there is a 14th amendment. This is clark versus directors of the muska tin schools. Clark will be the u. S. Ambassador to liberia in the 1890s. The long reconstruction is about the changes taking place when a man sues to get his daughter into the Public Schools to be coming in as a u. S. Ambassador to liberia. A year after the war ends, the con fed rats are still running their legislatures and pass black codes and within two years those black codes are all repealed as africanamericans and white unionists begin to take over southern legislature. A revolution in law that takes place, an obvious example to say its now okay for africanamericans and white americans to get married in the south. This is part of the revolution in law in lou
I am the senior president for asia and japan chair here. Before we get started we have to do a brief safety announcement. About 10 fourstar admirals and generals in the room. This former boy scout will be in charge if there is a need to evacuate. We will head out and had around the corner. We will head out the back. We have simultaneous interpretation. There should be headsets on your chair and if you have any problems just wave and somebody will come help you. Leave them on the chair when you are finished. Then weake them home will send the new Defense Force Rapid Deployment force to your house to retrieve them tonight. Eight here to hear from distinguished former flag officers from the United States and japan who participated in this years u. S. Japan military stasis forum which was established by the asiapacific initiative. We will tell you what we have been up to the past couple of days. Is very wellknown in washington and around the world. He is an awardwinning journalist, columni
Talking about, really i dont. Also i want to thank a couple. I could be here all night thanking people but there are a couple of people i want to mention. The most important one is kelly, kelly bird. Thank you for organizing all of this, bringing me here, getting us through the whole process of organizing the symposium itself as well as having me speak. And where is paul and nancy . Paul is over there. Paul, thank you for taking me to the best steak place in kansas city. Okay. Thank you. Now paul has been very helpful in other ways as well. Now diane has mentioned that my passion and ill admit this, i will admit to this, my passion is blackpast. Org. Now a 15,000 page website. Essentially a work thats based on volunteers. You can see some of it being skrold. Im not touching on it. You can see the scrolling. It started as kind of a project for our students at the university of washington and we forgot to gate it and as a consequence somebody wrote from new zealand and said, you know, sh
Congressional oversight of Nuclear Security and arms control. Speakers included representatives from the Arms Control Association. The Hudson Institute in washington posted this two our event. Two hour event. Thank you. Lets begin. Toant to welcome everyone hudson. My name is richard price. Talk, we are honored to about an important report and an important subject, that is congressional efforts to oversee the u. S. Nuclear security efforts. We are specifically going to talk about a report, copies of which are outside, by the partnerships to secure america and the Arms Control Association , blueprints for a new generation. I want to particularly welcome the cspan audience for joining us. To make everything easier, if people could silence any cell phones you have now, that would be helpful. The report and other work we have been doing with partnerships to secure america and the Arms Control Association has been continuing over years. It is an independent project, but we collaborated with