the arts is history students. you know me. i m professor april mastin we are very fortunate today to have a guest lecture president of stony brook university maury mcginnis. i d like to tell you a little bit about her the title of her dr. mcginnis s lecture as you can see is the shadow of slavery in public life. this topic is relevant not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. but also how they affect the present or in the words of james baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. the research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasn t adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. dr. mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularl
baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. the research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasn t adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. dr. mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularly the politics of slavery. she s an award-winning author co-author and editor of six books including two books on this topic slaves waiting for sale abolitionist art and the american slave trade and educated in tyranny slavery at thomas jefferson s university. which for which she won? the she was awarded the chelsea eldridge book prize from the smithsonian american art museum? dr. mcginnis received her ba at the university of virginia, and she attended yale university where she ear
who was around a while ago and then went away. now she s come back. she s battling cancer, but she finds herself transformed into the mighty thor thanks to the reconstructed hammer, which was shattered, from which thor is now separated, and now he s confronted with his ex girlfriend and his ex hammer. here s a clip. so that s the ex girlfriend, is it? the old ex girlfriend. jodie foster. jane foster. the one that got away. that means escaped. yeah, yeah. must be hard for you to see your ex girlfriend and your ex hammer hanging out and getting on so well. what you up to, bro? come to daddy. come on! mjolnir! hey, there you are! hey! i was just calling you. i have no idea what s going on there! no, 0k. well, that gag about his hammer being like his ex girlfriend and the axe being the new girlfriend, that will go on throughout the whole movie. and i don t mind a couple of gags in a superhero movie. kind of stretches a point when the whole point of the movie is, oh, look, we re
and went away. now she s come back. she s battling cancer, but she finds herself transformed into the mighty thor thanks to the reconstructed hammer, which was shattered, from which thor is now separated, and now he s confronted with his ex girlfriend and his ex hammer. here s a clip. so that s the ex girlfriend, is it? the old ex girlfriend. jodie foster. jane foster. the one that got away. that means escaped. yeah, yeah. must be hard for you to see your ex girlfriend and your ex hammer hanging out and getting on so well. what you up to, bro? come to daddy. come on! mjolnir! hey, there you are! hey! i was just calling you. i have no idea what s going on there! no, 0k. well, that gag about his hammer being like his ex girlfriend and the axe being the new girlfriend, that will go on throughout the whole movie. and i don t mind a couple of gags in a superhero movie. kind of stretches a point when the whole point of the movie is, oh, look, we re making a superhero movie, but we
a bit about our speaker jared kearney began as curator of the james monroe museum and library in november of 2011 previously, he was curator of the woodrow wilson presidential library and museum in staunton, virginia and prior to that. curator of the rye historical society in new york he has been director of the holicville museum farm in folklife center on long island and worked at the greensboro historical museum in north carolina. jared received his ma in museum studies and ba in history from the university of north carolina at greensboro. he is also a blacksmith woodworker raises bonsai trees is a photographer and is acted in numerous films. it s wonderful to have him with us today. and again, there will be time for q&a at the end of our presentation. so, please feel free to leave those at the bottom of your screen. without further ado. i m going to turn the zoom over to jared. right well, hello. thank you so much for that great intro and thank you highlands and the james