Senate it is my honor to welcome you here. We are going to have a conversation about the intersection of Early American History and contemporary political issues. If this is your first visit to the institute, i want to welcome you to our fullscale replica of the United States senate chamber. We arekennedy institute, committed to engaging the public in a conversation about the role each one of us plays in our democracy and our society. We do that through Civic Education programs that bring the United States senate to life and conversations like tonight that bring American History into focus. Partnerery proud to with the Massachusetts Historical Society on todays program. They are an invaluable resource for american life, history, and culture. All of us at the institute are proud together together a group of panelists for the Program Including our moderator, fred tice. He covers news related to politics in Higher Education at sincehere he has been 1988. Serving as a trusted source of tru
If you like American History tv, keep up with us during the week on twitter and youtube. Learn what happened this day in history and see preview clips of upcoming programs. Follow us at cspan history. Next on lectures in history, andrew slap of East Tennessee State University teaches a class on Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson and the constitution. He compares how both president s have been upholding or disregarding the constitution, and whether their reputations match their actions in office. Good morning. Thank you all for coming. Today we are transitioning in the course from civil war to reconstruction. Because of that, it is a good point in this course to talk about a big issue that goes throughout the civil war era, that we need to look at in the antebellum and the civil war and reconstruction to understand. That is the United States institution. Whether things historians have been asking for generations about the constitution and the civil war era, basic questions as to what degre
Democracy and in our society. We do that through Civic Education programs that bring the United States senate to life, and conversation like tonight, that bring American History into focus. We are very proud to partner with the Massachusetts Historical Society on todays program. They are an invaluable resource for american life, history, and culture. All of us at the institute are proud to gather and esteemed panel tonight. Fred thys covers politics at wbur, where he has been since 1998. Breaking news and serving as a trusted source of truth and information. He previously was the nbc news bureau chief in mexico city, and a south america reporter for cbs news, based in argentina. Joining fred on the panel are four distinguished scholars who provide perspectives on and knowledge of our nations founders. They will paint an informative picture of how the founders operated, and what current lawmakers and each one of us can learn from them. Tonights historians include liz covart from the ins
As always its nice to see some new faces. And a special welcome we are the oldest Historical Society in america with 14000 manuscripts it is truly breathtaking correction. And we also host academic seminars and workshops with many many public programs. It with those upcoming programs with africanamerican history so we are hosting a four Program Series and now the 400th anniversary for the arrival of the british colonies in north america. So discuss the history of africans and africanamericans to feature scholars to elaborate on the perspective of the 20th century. The first past a couple weeks ago but we still have three more to go the next program is october 19th. Tonight well hear from kevin will talk about the myth of African Americans fighting for the confederacy he claims they would have shocked anyone who served in the army and he suggests the story of the 20th century backlash and as we often do we pulled material from the display thats in the reception so when reviewing the boo
We make all of this material available to the public for free and we have rotating exhibititions and, of course, many, many public programs. Based on the subject of tonights talk, i thought it was worth highlighting programs that explore africanamerican history. Fourprogram series of legacies of 1619, this year is 400th anniversary of first enslaved africans in british colonies in north america. Perspectives of 17, 18, and 19th centuries. We have 3 more to go. If you have a chance to join us, the next program october 19th, afronative connections. Coffin we will hear from kevin who will talk about African Americans who fought for the confederacy, he argues that the claims would have shocked anybody who served in the war. And 20th century backlash against africanamerican gains in civil rights, we pull some material from collection to small display in reception and if any of you know peter, you know that peter is not a person that does not like to be stumped. He went out and find images i