Good evening, everyone and welcome. Thank you for joining us tonight. My name is hilary carr and on behalf of Harvard Bookstore im pleased to introduce this event with professor martha jones presented her brandnew book vanguard how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all joining conversation by nikole hannahjones. Thank you for joining us virtually tonight. Events like to our books are confused to bring authors and their work to our community and her new Digital Community through these unprecedented times. We will be hosting are on our account or our event schedule. On a website harbor. Com events we can sign up for our email newsletter. This discussion will conclude with time for your questions. You have a question if you have questions adding time during the talk dick on the q a button at the bottom of the screen and will get to as many as time allows. I will be posting a link to purchase vanguard as both a link to donate. Your purchases and financi
With each discussion we will conclude with time for your questions and if you have a question for our speakers at any time, click on the q and a button at the bottom of the screen and we will get through as many as time allows. Ill send a link to donate in support of this series. Your purchases and financial contributions events like tonight possible and help ensure the landmark bookstore. Thank you for tuning in in support of our authors. We sincerely appreciate your support now and always. Finally as you may have experienced virtual gatherings technical issues may arise and if they do we will do our best to resolve them and we thank you for your understanding. Im so pleased to introduce tonights speakers, professor martha s jones, professor of history at Johns Hopkins university and copresident of the brookshire conference of historians. Her work has been recognized by the organization of american historians, American Society for history and the National Committee center and she hold
His new book equality in american dilemma 1866 to 1896. Unleashed by the civil war. You do not need to take my word for how wonderful it is. Equality is deeply researched. The struggle to define the meaning of equality in post civil war america. It is filled with fresh insight into the social movements that took precedent during the region. The inequalities that continue to shape our social and political landscape. Please join me in welcoming charles postal. Postel. You get to meet the author which is one of the reasons to come to an event like this but the person the purpose was where the author was coming from in that sense history books really talk about the past at all. There really about their present in the context in which the book was written written. I may make no secret im transparent on this. It was written after the financial crisis of 20072008. It was written in a context of occupy wall street a questions about the deep economic inequality in the United States. It was writ
Have advised us in the opening of our new gallery, civil war and reconstruction the battle for freedom and equality. [applause] who has seen the new gallery . And everyone who has not can vibe about vision 2020, which is really important and is cosponsoring our event this evening. Isnt it wonderful . Its so inspiring and so meaningful to tell the story of how the equality promised in jeffersons declaration was thwarted in the original constitution, resurrected by lincoln at gettysburg, and Frederick Douglass, and enshrined in post civil war amendments, thwarted again, and then resurrected by king. And Thavolia Glymph and kate masur are two of the scholars who were on our scholarly advisory panel. Youll hear from them as well as Catherine Clinton tonight in a conversation moderated my colleague lana ulrich, our head of constitutional content who worked with the Incredible Team to create that exhibit. If you havent seen it, i want you to go down as soon as possible and see it and tell me
For freedom and equality. [applause] ho has seen the new gallery . D everyone who has not can see vision 2020, very important and is cosponsoring. Its so inspiring and so meaningful to tell the story of how the equality promised in jeffersons declaration was thwarted, resurrected by lincoln and Frederick Douglas and enshrined in post civil war amendments, thwarted again, and hen resurrected by king. And theyre two of the scholars who were on our advisory panel. Youll hear from them as well as katherine tonight in a conversation moderate bid my colleague lana, our head of constitutional content who worked with the Incredible Team to create that exhibit. If you havent seen it, i want you to go down as soon as possible and see it and tell me what you think. Now please join me in greeting lana and our panelists. [applause] good evening. Welcome to the center. Thank you, for that kind introduction. As jeff mentioned my name is lana im the senior director of content here at the center. Tonig