Elena kagan speaks about the american legal system, her life and career and the polarization of the confirmation process for Supreme Court justices. From George Mason University earlier this month this portion is just over an hour. Students guests, president helton, Justice Kagan, friends and family of Roger Wilkins. It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the Second Annual Roger Wilkins lecture. Which this year takes the form of a conversation of Supreme Court justice elina kagan. My name is matt shearer im associate professor of policy and government in this our school and director of the undergraduate program and philosophy and politics and economics the eb for short at george mason. The program is honored to be theinstitutional sponsor and host of the Roger Wilkins lecture. We are grateful for the trust and support place in us by the university andby the friends and family of Roger Wilkins. Whats the connection between our pbe program and these lectures . Im glad you asked. I spent
Men whosts and the supported them as part of a series of events related to our Current Special exhibit, rightfully hers, american women and the vote. Partners are here tonight and we thank them for their support. Our special exhibit, rightfully hers, tells the story of the woman struggle for Voting Rights. Women activists had to win allies among men in influential positions. It was men who sat in state legislatures that would ratify or reject the 19 amendment, whose centennial we celebrate. Opened,htfully hers guests were offered a yellow rose pin when they entered. That was won by members of the mens league for womens suffrage. Not to theests, this role that men played came as a surprise. Tonight we will take a look at theirffragists and contributions to the voting right struggle. Its my pleasure to welcome nancy tate, she has served as womens votef the Centennial Initiative and is also on the board of the turning point suffragists memorial. She served as the executive director of the
Appreciate it its been very warm. Its been a terrific field as you all know. Marvelously talented in many cases friends in every one of those great Public Servants and im hoping to have the chance to compete in every state and speak to every voter. We were delighted that in the first couple of hours of our white website going up we had people identify themselves from every one of the 50 states and we look forward to leveraging that kind of engagement through the primaries so im glad to be here and thank you for taking the early does i think im going to speak and you will all be ready to end your day i think. Questions . [inaudible] how do you navigate a field this large especially comingin late . A lot of people are voting. Im not going to get into the strategy buti can tell you two things. I would have come in a year ago and that was the plan, two weeks or so before we were ready to launch and i think some of you, my wife was diagnosed with uterine cancer and im really grateful to be
Correctness to silence conservatives and the new yorkers andrew moran reports on online extremism. Check your Program Guide or visit booktv. Org for more information on everything that is airing today and tomorrow and now we kick off the weekend with tamim ansary who discusses his new book, on the history of everything. So the invention of yesterday, the invention of yesterday a 50,000year history of human culture, confict, and connection you got me at the title, all right . Even if you are not a history buff, in the scary unprecedented times it is incumbent on all of us to look back to see where we have been and how we got here now and hopefully some perspective of where we are going. This 6year investment produced a global history of the human journey which takes us from the stone age to the virtual age. The history of the world is a story we are telling one another and since there is no single circle of storytellers there must be many world histories. This dramatic journey asks us a
Encouraging stories that none of us have heard about. His hymnbook, escape from paris, the true story of love and resistance which is based on official american documents history and interviews with several others. Its a thrilling adventure story of american aviators. [applause] i like to thank you all for coming. I appreciate when people show up and i hope not to bore you. I want to give you a quick background on myself, people tend to wonder how you find military history. I was born and raised in socal a long time ago. My father and my uncles fought world war ii in the pacific. Grew up hearing their stories fighting the japanese and the ocean and everything. When i was 19, i enlisted in the u. S. Army in 1971. It was the best decision i ever made because six months later, i got run over by a personal carrier as a result, i am a disabled veteran. They are very heavy. They dont give much. I spent just over a year in hospitals in germany and the u. S. And this was way before the interne