Book, captives of liberty prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Revolution history professor t. Cole jones illustrates inhumane conditions inside 18thcentury prison camps and examines how the Continental Congress dealt with the problem of thousands of pows, a population that sometimes outnumbered the American Army. Next, professor jones discusses his book at the American Revolution institute of the society of the cincinnati. Dir. Mccallister clark good evening, everyone. Its so nice to see you here this evening. So many good old friends and new faces. I am ellen mccallister clark, the Library Director at the American Revolution institute of the society of cincinnati. It is my very special pleasure tonight to be the one to introduce t. Cole jones, who us thisspeaking to evening about his new book captives of liberty prisoners of war and the politics of vengeance in the American Revolution, which has just come out from the university of pennsylvania press. We hav
Obviously, i could do this privately and i have but i would like to say a public thank you to terry for her support for her advice over the years, including many good topics, suggestions, and if you are here you will know she is responsible for the beach boys, and all sorts of others we have enjoyed over the years thanks to her suggestions. So terry, would you please stand up . [applause] tonights speaker, claire l. Evans, has achieved notable success in two disparate fields, both as a musician and as a writer. In the former career, she is the lead singer and cofounder of the conceptual pop group yacht, and has recently returned from a tour in europe with that group. But it is her second career as an expert in the area of technology that brings her to us tonight. And in that regard, she is the former futures editor of motherboard and a contributor to vice, the guardian, and wired, among other publications. She is, for example, the Founding Editor of terraform, vices sciencefiction chro
Associate professor of history at temple university. Shes a specialist in transnational culture, gender history and the history of cultural globalization. Shes a coeditor of the one of the most important journals in the field, diplomatic history. And her publications include two books. Now, of course, politics of peace published by oxford this year. Its based on this book that she will be speaking to us today. She has coedited two books, the human rights revolution, oxford 2012, and the oxford handbook of the cold war published in 2013. Today she will be speaking on, quote, if you want peace, detours on the path to politics of peace in the early cold war. You have the floor. Thank you very much. Thanks to christian, eric, to peter, rachel and everybody else who makes this possible for inviting me. Its a great honor to be here. I was embarrassed to have to admit i had never been here. Im going to try and make an effort, because i realize philadelphia is not that far from washington, at
U. S. iran relations. I should stress these events are strictly nonpartisan and not intended to offer any kind of policy, recommendations, or agendas. Therapy meant to give greater insight into how we got to where we are, which we believe helps us to understand how we can solve problems. A few thanks and then over to allen. The Melon Foundation funds building program. We are grateful to them. The room has been booked by chronicm congressman consequentnellys o. I will turn it over to the moderator of this event. Most of you will find these index cards on your seats. The intent of these is as the discussion proceeds, if you have questions, write them on these cards. We would collect them after formal remarks and use them to initiate the discussion, all right . Think about that as they are giving their remarks. Allen . Thank you, dane. Good morning. In 1941, the influential publisher henry loose declared that, in his view, the 20th century would be the american century. A time when americ
Federal government debated political and legal definitions. Professor turner also discusses of religious role and educational institutions in newly freed africanamerican communities. Professor turner ok, so today, we are going to be talking about the meaning of freedom and i wanted to capture our earlier discussions about the meaning of freedom when we talked about free communities, free folks in the north and how we came with this representation of freedom. Reedom the question of freedom and what does it mean. For today, we are going to be talking about what did freedom mean . In particular, what did it mean to the free people . In january of 1865, the secretary of war, Edward Stanton and general William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah, georgia. They were preachers, pastors, lay Church Leaders and they wanted to find out from these preachers basically what is it that the freed people wanted from freedom . What did they expect . And what did they expect in the after