Supremacy. The National Constitution Center Hosted this event. Welcome. You heard the passion of professor gates downstairs. Were going to jump into this conversation. I think you can tell it is important to bring as many school kids as possible to come see that incredible exhibit. William height stat with me and announced the School District and the Constitution Center are launching a program to bring tens of thousands of philly School Districts to the constitution School District every year. Wow. Were calling it the constitutional ambassadors program. Were going to go seek support, and those great kids are going to start these experiences in their class, come see the civil war exhibit and the Constitution Center and connect to classrooms around the country using our virtual constitutional exchanges for our long conversations about the constitution, moderated by a judge or a master teacher. Wow. Thats great. It is an amazing project and were so excited to share it with you. Professor
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Have two speakers this morning. We have Vernon Burton whos from clemson university, and we have Brooke Thomas who is from the university of california at irving. Both of them are stunningly important scholars in this world. Vernon burton is the judge matthew j. Perry distinguished chair of history and a professor of panafrican studies, sociology and anthropology and Computer Science at clemson university, which is to say hes mostly the entire university at this point. His i could read all of his distinguished awards and honors, and then he wouldnt have time to talk. I can only say that he has written a number of very important books. He has given major lectures at many institutions, most recently the annual lecture in southern history at the university of arkansas, and he his books have been in the book of the month club, the history book club, and other clubs. I have always hoped that i could be in a club that vernon was a member of, and im delighted to introduce him to start this mor
Professor gets downstairs and all of our colleagues. So were just going to jump right into this conversation. The one thing i have to say is i think you can tell, it is urgently important to bring as many schoolkids as possible to come see that incredible exhibit. And that is why i am thrilled that last week, dr. William highs, the superintendent of the School District for philadelphia sat with me on this overlook and announced that the School District and the Constitution Center are launching a program to bring tens of thousands of School Districts to the Constitution Center every year. Wow. They are calling it the constitutional ambassadors program. We will go seeks a port and great kids are going to start these things in their classroom. Come see that civil war exhibit and see the Constitution Center and then connect to classrooms around the country, using our virtual constitutional exchanges for our long conversations about the constitution, moderated by a judge or master teacher.
To have actual images of when i give a talk. This is something of a departure for me. Heres how the structure is going to work. Im going to give very brief introductions for the four people who are sitting here at the table with me and ill do all of them at once. And then im going to go in the order in which these images are going to appear and have each of our Panel Members talk about why they decided to be part of this project. And why they selected the image that they selected. Theyll talk for a little while about the image and then well see where the conversation goes after that. Youll be able to have questions. Let me introduce everybody up here. Ill start with carol riordan, the professor of American History at penn state university. Carol and i taught together there for a long time. Shes the author of a very important book on civil war memory, the military side of it. With a sword in one hand, the problem of military thought in the civil war north. And shes a coauthor with tom v