For a second to link this class to what we did last time. And last time we were talking about federalism and particularly the balance of power between states and localities. Now when people talk about federalism, they usually use the term to refer to the balance of power between the federal government and states. But last time we were talking about the debates between state and local level power. And those mirrored debates at the federal level and if anything they were much more contentious because so much governing authority was located in the states and localities. And what were talking about was a system of layered authority. Where states had control over the rights of citizens and the Public Interest. But they gave local areas Broad Discretionary Authority over a wide range of matters involving the Public Interest. So basically the states then handed over all of the discretion over this broad area of the Public Interest to local areas and so these jurisdictions that operated simult
Government, the arrival of the first enslaved africans, the experiences of women, and the enslavement of native americans. Northern Virginia Community college and the office of Historic Alexandria cohosted this event. Welcome. In case you are wondering about cameras, cspan is covering this tonight for us. It will be broadcast may be a week from now. Year, we hold a lecture series in memory of a colleague who passed away a few years ago. Joseph winthrop, a dedicated and compassionate professor and social activist. And thees over there, woman who was married to him for many years is sitting here marilyn, glad to have you with us. Panell complete this tomorrow at the alexandria campus, because we are all professors at the alexandria northern Virginia Community college. Alexandra is a treat for history. And it is a treat to have these professors in a setting like the lyceum. We can rub shoulders with the ghost of the past. Yearhts topic is the 1619, a turning point not only for jamestown b
No questions . [inaudible question] is there a question here . [applause] there was a question. My question is what is the best story you did . The best story i didnt print, i think all the good ones are in there, i got to tell you. Good question. Anyone else . I have to start dying my hair after all this was over. It was really fun to be in kansas. Earlier today we talked about preserving the voices of elders and that was important and i was so happy i got to do that. It is up part of what you grew up with. Really an honor. [applause] booktv is on facebook. Like us to interact with booktv guests and viewers. Watch videos and get uptodate information on events, facebook. Com booktv. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books continues on cspan2. Walter echohawk talks about the u. S. Governments adoption of the un declaration of the rights of Indigenous Peoples and discusses what needs to be done to implement it and create a more just society for native americans. This is about an hour an
in pennsylvania with don rash, and so i ve been teaching him hands on here, and the next step after we get him to this stage, we will go tool the back of the books. they were all hand tooled with jay mckenzie esquire. and so we ll be doing that also and then making the labels for the books. and that will be the last part of the project. do you know on average around how much it costs per book to do it? it s going to depend on a size of the book because you ve got some of these books, obviously, a little bit larger than this book. so we had estimated about anywhere, about $350 when we did the estimate on the books that we would be working on this summer, per book. it s really funny because the end sheets, to match the end sheets in this book, the sheets are about $28 just to marble the sheets to match these end sheets, and so, i mean, six sheets. [laughter] but my student is a chemistry major, and he just came in one day and said could i repair a book, and i said, well,