Monuments discussing how people can make decisions about based removing or contextualizing them based on Historical Information , and public sentiment. The American Historical Association hosted and recorded this event. James good afternoon. I say that with some trepidation because our audience is national and international. Morning to some of you and good to some of you. I am jim grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association. This is an initial experiment in something that we are likely to call history behind the headlines. We consider Historical Context essential to decisionmaking in public culture and especially in all aspects of public policy. Aha is a membership supported organization. Anybody who watches Public Television or listens to public radio is ready for this. If you would like to become a member and support this type of content, membership links are located in the chat on zoom and in the comments on facebook live. I want to give and especially gr
The American Historical Association. James this is an initial experiment in something that we are likely to call history behind the headlines. Historical context essential to decisionmaking in public culture and especially in all aspects of public policy. This is a membership supported organization. Anybody who watches Public Television or listens to public radio is ready for this. If you would like to become a member and support this type of content, never siblings are located in the chat on zoom and in the comments on facebook live. And especially grateful thankful to History Channel four their generous sponsorship of this webinar. Lets get started. It is an honor to introduce todays panelists, Annette Gordon reed. Blight, he studies slavery and abolition. These professors are Pulitzer Prize winning historians and they have won lots of other prizes as well. They have written and spoken frequently and insightfully on issues relating to monuments, history, memory and our nations contin