In my mothers bedroom. Then on. Americas and the war. And why did you so much . Because we knew they were going to lose it. What did that mean for you in hungary . I did not cry then. Cold are you . I was 18. With that interview the late author john lucas in depth that was born 20 years ago. Since 2000, over 230 of the leading nonfiction and fiction authors of our time of appeared on in depth. Milton freedman, alice walker, Colton Whitehead bob woodward, neil degrasse, tyson george wells, just to name a few. So over the next three hours our goal is to review the last 20 years of indepth. But also to ask you a couple of questions, here they are. Who is your favorite indepth gas . What book are you reading now . And who is your favorite Nonfiction Author . And that is what will be talking about. Heres how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth. 2020 code 7488200. For those of you in the Eastern Central time zone, 202 7488201 if you live the mountain pacific time zone. And you
Good evening, and welcome to so important and interest, slavery and the United States constitution. I am deirdre jones. I want to welcome you to our final event for our constitution weekend. You may know me as the programming lead for the actor interpreters and many recognize me from my time around Colonial Williamsburg portraying free and enslaved black people, but this evening i had the pleasure of serving as your moderator. I am also joined by and hope right, hope right, my Dear Colleague began her career at Colonial Williamsburg when she was in the third grade. She was a performer in a plate on my own time and the black music program. She has collaborated with many other departments at the foundation as well as with other museums over the course of her career. She has worked with a variety of educational institutions as an actress, storyteller, writer, researcher, and mentor. Please welcome hope wright. Our special guest allie larson is a professor of law and director of the instit
Please take a minute to silence your phones before we begin. While you are doing so, we have a fair number of members with us tonight. Supporters of president lincolns cottage. In seeing some of the names on the list, i wanted to take a moment to recognize two members who have been dedicated supporters since before we were open to the public. Eric reese has been a member for 12 years. Can you raise your hand . [applause] and thank you to all the other members tonight. I did want to name everyone but i thought the fact since the two of you have been getting since before we open was special, so thank you. At that conclusion, we invite you to the book signing which will be downstairs in the library. Joining us tonight is Sidney Blumenthal and jamie raskin to discuss mr. Blumenthals new book, the third volume in his series on the 16th president. Sidney blumenthal is the author of a selfmade man and wrestling with his angel, the first two volumes in his biography, the political life of Abra
Our special guest allie larson is a professor of law and director of the institute of the bill of rights law, since she joined the faculty in 2010, she has received many awards including the statewide outstanding faculty award and the in the rising star category. Offessor larson is a scholar constitutional law and Legal Institution for the focus on how information dynamics affect the votes. Her work has been featured multiple times in various publications and these are just a few of her accomplishments, please help me in welcoming allie larson. Our discussion may be about an hour long and it may feel uncomfortable at times, that is ok, you may feel angry, that is ok. You may feel sad, that is also ok. All of these feelings arose for me when i was researching for an event and it is ok to feel something. This reminds us that we care. While slavery is not the beginning of the story, for the purposes of trying to dive into large topics in a very little bit of time we will start our evening
Doctoral fellow and virginia sensor for civil war studies. Im certainly really glad she is here and i think you all will be as well once you hear her talk. Its clear she will bring an awful lot to Virginia Tech in terms of teaching, research and outreach programs as well. She specializes in 19th century u. S. History. It but also north american slavery more generally. Her writing as appeared in civil war monitor annes and Civil War History journal among other publications. Her big project at the moment is converting her ph. D. Dissertation into a book. That is going to be well worth looking at a few years down the line. Its in the same topic we will speak about tonight. You can see the power point is already up there. Black prisoners of war in the confederate south. Under the rebel lash. Hero she was big for 30 or 35 minutes, which will leave us plenty of time for discussion. I think another advantage of the zoom format is that you can type in your questions using the queue and a featu