the concept behind it is really quite simple. this is an a lecture that you re going to sit and watch somebody talk at you for 45 minutes. this is a series of conversations with people that i actually adore. i adore their work. i adore their public engagement and joanne freeman is no exception to that. i i first we were talking about it. we first met back and i think it was 2015. i had been following her work for a long time, but we actually met in 2015 through a podcast that she was doing at the time backstory some of you may be familiar with that. it used to be called backstory with the american history guys and they decided to not be sexist and add women. but it was a nationally syndicated podcast. that was extraordinary and joanne was a part of that. so the director is really an ongoing conversation about the importance of legacies of our history, right? i mean that s underlying here what we re talking about and and for example, you know for those of you who may not be to
was 2015. i had been following her work for a long time, but we actually met in 2015 through a podcast that she was doing at the time backstory some of you may be familiar with that. it used to be called backstory with the american history guys and they decided to not be sexist and add women. but it was a nationally syndicated podcast. that was extraordinary and joanne was a part of that. so the director is really an ongoing conversation about the importance of legacies of our history, right? i mean that s underlying here what we re talking about and and for example, you know for those of you who may not be totally familiar the mission of the jamestown yorktown foundation is to explore the convergence of cultures among native americans europeans and central west africans and the legacy bequeath to the nation. and those legacies and that s that s the mission for over 25 years now, but we haven t really talked about legacy as much we haven t talked about the importance of how t
actually adore. i adore their work. i adore their public engagement and joanne freeman is no exception to that. i i first we were talking about it. we first met back and i think it was 2015. i had been following her work for a long time, but we actually met in 2015 through a podcast that she was doing at the time backstory some of you may be familiar with that. it used to be called backstory with the american history guys and they decided to not be sexist and add women. but it was a nationally syndicated podcast. that was extraordinary and joanne was a part of that. so the director is really an ongoing conversation about the importance of legacies of our history, right? i mean that s underlying here what we re talking about and and for example, you know for those of you who may not be totally familiar the mission of the jamestown yorktown foundation is to explore the convergence of cultures among native americans europeans and central west africans and the legacy bequeath to
backstory some of you may be familiar with that. it used to be called backstory with the american history guys and they decided to not be sexist and add women. but it was a nationally syndicated podcast. that was extraordinary and joanne was a part of that. so the director is really an ongoing conversation about the importance of legacies of our history, right? i mean that s underlying here what we re talking about and and for example, you know for those of you who may not be totally familiar the mission of the jamestown yorktown foundation is to explore the convergence of cultures among native americans europeans and central west africans and the legacy bequeath to the nation. and those legacies and that s that s the mission for over 25 years now, but we haven t really talked about legacy as much we haven t talked about the importance of how this history plays out over time and how we as the public consume that history. so that s part of the reason why our very first one was