I am an assistant professor of history at the university of maryland. Im going to be chairing the panel. Im going to offer some brief comments, some thoughts and questions i had to start generating conversation. Our threeto introduce presenters. If we are going to go in the order they appear on the program. They will speak for roughly 20 minutes. Our first presenter is going to be Graham Hodges. He has written on africanamericans and labor in new york city. He has written a political biography on underground railroad activities. He is working on a book and we will hear his ideas about the the secondrea printer is going to be as associate professor of history at northwestern university. U. S. After the war and emancipation. Our third presenter is going to be philip prop. Troutman. He is working on a project that essentially explores of the literature and the images of radical antislavery during the antebellum period. We will hear about his approach that combination of literature and ima
I will be chairing or moderating the panel. After the three papers i will offer some brief comments, some thoughts, some questions i had in order to make it hopefully start generating conversations for us for the q a portion. I will introduce our three presenters. We will go in the order they appear on the program. The presenters will speak for roughly 20 minutes, and that i will speak for a few minutes and open things up. Our first presenter will be Graham Hodges, the George Langevin professor of history at Colgate University. He has written on africanamericans and labor in new york city, and more recently written a political apathy of david robles, and important figure in railroad activities. He is working on a book that reframes the underground railroad and will hear about his ideas about reframing, thinking about the underground railroad and a larger context if reading freedom making. Kate mazer, associate professor of history at northwestern. She has written on emancipation and wa
The wait is over, the stars of fifty shades of grey in their first Live Television debut together. This morning, thursday, july 24th, 2014. From nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone, welcome to today 7 oompl a. M. On a thursday. Extremely busy. Lets jump to our top story, the disappearance of yet another special airliner, this time it is a flight in western africa, nbcs tom costello covers the investigation for us, what can you tell us . Reporter this is the nigerian airline, 116 crew members on board. An official said within the past hour the plane has crashed, but we den foe where or how they know that. It left about 1 17 a. M. Local time. It disappeared 15 minutes into the flight from radar. The transport minister says the plane asked to change routes because of a bad stand storm in the airline. The Airlines Says half the passengers were french. It was an older Mcdonald Douglas plane built in th
Mitsubishi sedan. The driver of that car, a 36yearold man was heading south on cottel when he ran a red light around 3 30 this morning. He ended up colliding with a blue mustang, sending it into a third car. The driver who ran the red light was hurt, but not bad enough that he couldnt make a run for it, which he did. He ran down cottel, turned the corner on to santa teresa. Were talking about a good two to threeblock head start here. But police tell us they were so fast in responding, two of their officers was able to catch up to the driver, who was still running down a sidewalk, and take him into custody. The driver of the third car, not hurt. While we were there, officers started searching the black mitsubishi, taking a lot of items out of the truck. The sergeant on the scene said they did find, quote, evidence of criminal activity. Headquarters here just confirmed to us that they did discover drugs, unknown what kind of narcotics. That driver, hes still in the hospital, has not been
Bigger than yourself. Johns story is the american story. Thats not hyperbole. The american story. Grounded in respect and decency, basic fairness. The intolerance for the abuse of power. Many of you have traveled the world, lack how the rest of the world, how they look at us. They look at us a little naive, were fair, decent. Naive americans. But thats who we are, thats who john was. And he could not stand the abuse of power wherever he saw it. In whatever form, whatever country. It was always about basic values with john. Fairness, honesty, dignity, respect. Giving hate no safe harbor. Leaving no one behind, understanding as americans were part of something much bigger than ourselves. With john it was a value set not selfish or self serving. John understood that america was first and foremost an idea, audacious and risky, organized around, not tribe but around ideals. The ideals that americans have rallied around the ideals of the world, an idea enshrined in the constitution. Sounds c