History university of massachusetts at amherst, or should he sits scorches at ability history, slavery, emancipation, and native american history. First book, which i have four in front of me, her book entitled black slaves, indian masters, slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the american south. Its quite a title. Published by the university of North Carolina press. This book details the untold story of the enslavement barbara has also coauthored a photographic history of slavery, emancipation and freedom published in 2013, published by Temple University press, and it is also for sale in our bookstore. Tonight, she will be speaking about her recent work and the top is entitled envisioning emancipation, black americans and the end of slavery. Please welcome barbara. applause well, hello, good evening. Thank you for saying this late into the night. Thank you for saying awake. Thank you, peter, for the invitation and the introduction, and allison, who has made sure that everything h
St. John stretch reverent rob fischer. Law welcome good evening my name is rob fischer i am the director of st. Johns church, and i am thrilled that our friends at the White House Historical association asked us to provide space for tonights conversation. Stewart asked if i would share a little bit of a history of this historic room that you are sitting in tonight, and so i will share with you this church was completed in 1816. The architect was Benjamin Henri vitro, and not only did he designs church, he was working on rebuilding the white house after it was destroyed by the british in the war of 18. 12 in 1818, he built what is now the home of the historical association. And if you go inside the dictator house, and you look up, you see a similar entrance. Its almost like a miniature of this dome of we have in our church space. The Original Church was built as a greek cross, so it wasnt even four sides. In just six years later, in 1822, they expanded the Church Building to make room f
Slowing on t altamonte pass. Taking a look at those overall cutlers mostly in the green. One in the yellow. 30minute ride in that westbound direction out of the tracy triangle. Still good to go on highway 101 and the east shore at this hour. All of the destruction thats been going on at the Golden Gate Bridge finally clearing at this hour. Theyre not going to be able to clear the visibility. Its going to be foggy all morning. For those of you headed in the southbound direction were going to need a little butt of extra time thanks to all of the visibility issues as youre coming in to San Francisco. Its already setting up to be a pretty busy day here at the toll plaza. A lot of traffic there as you are headed into San Francisco via the bay bridge. The san mateo bridge looks like it might be a little foggy there as well as this live camera as youre headed westbound youre looking good. You do have company but its not terrible. And as for nimmets freeway. Im anne makovec at the live news de
Nice and cool santa rosa at 59, lets talk about what you can expect as you head to the afternoon, not as hot as yesterday, equally so, San Francisco mid 70s, oakland low 80s later this afternoon, 93 san jose and 99 concorde. From seven or 11 degrees above average for this time of year, cooler this weekend,. Take a look at your main travel times this morning, the good news is it is friday and feels like friday on the roadways, i do not know about you but so far of your drive times are remaining in the green. That is great news, even the Altamont Pass, that, only a 20 minute ride the westbound direction, you sure freeway, good to go, same thing with highway 4 and onetoone, as for the san mateo bridge, the westbound direction, getting a little busier but theyre not any major delays or crashes or stalls slowing you down with rush hour traffic and the westbound direction. The Golden Gate Bridge is out of focus but you know what . It has been cleared up as far as the lane closures northbound
Its friday, so far so good with traffic time, and the green at this hour which is great. Traffic is usually in the yellow at this hour, only a 25 minute ride for you guys, the san mateo braves bridge, not really all that much ended eastbound direction, i actually have the Golden Gate Bridge. Darlene closures in the northbound direction, take a look, you are down to one lane northbound on the Golden Gate Bridge at this hour, that is due to construction with the eastside barrier, is usually cleared up but its a li te butwi be heing out of san this morning. The bay bridge still looks good at this hour. I have a live news desk video coming in out of china right now, this is the china paramilitary get at the stadium next to bridge, it links Mainland China to hong kong. The threat of force against pro democracy in hong kong according to those in the island, china says the drills were preplanned and are not directly related to the unrest in china, north korea also fired off another couple mis