Jezebel then uncommon life of Anne Hutchinson, the woman who defied the puritans. Boston Public Library and partnership of historic boston cohosted this hourlong event. I want to start by telling you we have been offering charter day activities for a long time and our speaker this evening is a veteran. In 2005 she spoke on the lawn of three house in the and the three 75th anniversary of bostons naming and she spoke about her ancestor Anne Hutchinson and that is the year first church in boston finally released her from the excommunication given semicenturies before. Given so many centuries before. Eve laplante has published articles, essays, and five nonfiction books. Two of them are especially relevant. One is american jezebel, which is for sale outside after the talk and it tells the true story ancestor, Anne Hutchinson, the one who was finally got back into the church. The second ancestor we will mention this evening is the book witch judge, and that won the 2008 massachusetts book a
What a great turnout. A professor of history and the director of the institute on democracy. Thank you to cspan for being your. We are doing something a little differently because of cspan being your. For instance, im going to say a little bit more about what the institute is at the beginning for the tv audience. Founded in 2014, it is a joint project of the Political Science and history departments in cooperation with other scholarly groups on campus. Dedicated to research, teaching, and Community Engagement on american political thought and wide variety of perspectives. It is created from a generous der foundationkin and we are thankful that they made this one of their philanthropies among many others they could choose. And learns to teach about american constitutional democracy as the founders created it, but not just that. We want to understand the ideas that inspired the founders as well as those they disagreed with. We want to understand public shortcomings as well as accomplishm
i ¿ we are at the south dakota State Capitol in pierre where cspan is learning more about the history of the city. The building is an example of renaissance architecture. Up next, we take you inside for a tour and to learn why pierre was chosen as the state capital. Mr. Venhuizen pierre is a pretty small town as far as capitals go. Fort pierre is another 2500 people. Not only is it small, but it is pretty remote. It was selected as the state capital because it is in the middle of the state. It is really a two or two and a half hour drive from any other major town. That presents challenges. People have to drive quite a istance. The state is by far the largest employer and it really ominates the economy here. When dakota territory was created in 1862, the original territorial capital was in yankton, in the far east corner of the territory. The territory was both north and south dakota. As the territory was settled, three distinct territories emerged. There was yankton near sioux falls.
Living in poverty. The university of texas recorded the interview and archived his photograph along with other recognized photographers. This is just over 40 minutes. Talking with lucius perkins lucian perkins. Lucian, you started out in your at theaphy career here university of texas. Working at the daily texan and also i understand you worked with gary when a grad and a photojournalism or photograph photography course here at ut. We do you talk about how that has influenced your career . Mr. Perkins it is funny, i was actually a biology major at the university of texas. At the chester dorms, this is it today, 30 years later. It has not changed a bit. One of my residence at chester told sold me one of the cameras. He was convinced he convinced his parents to get him a new one, so he sold me his old one. I became interested in photography as a hobby. And then decided to take photography courses as an elective. Forcoincidently, signed up a first year of footage i was in. Even though i w