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I am the Vice President of the Constitutional Center outreach center. I want to welcome you. We are spending a lot of time marking the orient anniversary of the Voting Rights act, looking at through the lens of , the a low liuzzo. Liuzzo. Im sure you have been upstairs. Least the stories of at are 2200 people and they viola liuzzo and john lewis, who was supposed to be here tonight, but is stuck in washington. Derry may wrote a very interesting and compelling book to talk about the fbis role in the murder of viola eurozone liuzzo and other factors. Gary, thank you. [applause] mr. May thank you. Thank you to everyone body was removed for autopsy. You may recall he was a teenager who went down to mississippi to visit his uncle and cousins. Ot entirely sure what happened he may have flirted with a young 21yearold woman at the grocery store. Know till was kidnapped from his uncles home by two men in the middle of the night and tortured and murdered. His body was thrown into the tallahassee
And welcome to the society for historians of American Foreign relations 2019 conference on this, the longest day of the year. Hopefully this panel will not be the longest panel of the year. Im aaron. I teach u. S. Military history and Foreign Policy the university of texas at austin. Im pleased to be chairing this panel today on the deep state. Joining me here to talk about i think this quite important topic are three fantastic historians, all of whom study politics and power in American History. Professor beverly of yale university. Professor dirk bonker of duke university. And professor Michael J Allen of northwestern university. Im going to set the stage with four or five minutes of introductory remarks and will introduce each panelist visually before they speak. Just 15, 20 minutes apiece and then we will open the floor to discussion in this roundtable. So we are here today to talk about the origins and the effects of this thing we call the deep state. It is important to say at the
Reader and for obvious reasons, i feel very passionate about history, i think we need to be able to look through the lens of history at times that are similar to the times we are living in. We need to learn about people in our country who can be models for us all. History is obviously important, but i believe it has to be accessible way without dumbing it down or without lowering the standards for research or accuracy. So dont forget to read my source notes. I find source notes really grueling and so i always tell the audiences please read my source notes because i have spent so much time on them but in all seriousness, that is my quest. I want to entertain, but at the same time to deliver a very important story. And in order for me to get interested in the topic, it has to be really significant. It has to include things that i think will help us learn about ourselves and about our country. And another qualification for me is that it really has to be something that maybe has been swall
For the next hour we looks for the history and literary culture of this historic city. Also known as the Horse Capital of the world. What people dont realize is kentucky nearly lost the horses at the highest levels at one time and this was after the civil war for generation when it went out east. It was a case of there have always been forces here. In fact thoroughbreds and kentucky bred breds the highest number but the one big money went up north to new york and new jersey after the civil war because thats where the finance and the stock market was. It was a crazy and are one people were making fortunes. There was no income tax and they were getting rich and they were displaying their wealth with racing stables. Coming up we will travel with author carl rays as he highlights historic landmarks and shares a history of maysville road a u. S. Highway that played an Important Role in kentuckys economic development. That first author Tracy Campbell talks about the rise and fall of one of t