Let me tell you a little bit about john. He is the chair of the history department. His first book, the way of ofrovement and the rule enlightenment in early america examined the relationship between calvinism, cosmopolitanism and an enlightenment some and anden his him enlightenment in the 20th century. Written atly he has history of the american bible society. John has worked along with the the new yorkst and daily news. And he has done scholarly articles and the american articles in lead the journal of American History articles in the journal of American History. Bookll speak about his was america founded as a christian nation . Rereleaseds recently. It an author called remarkably useful guide of navigating the arguments of americas christian origin. At the conclusion of this talk he will to a question answer session. There is a mike in the gallery if you want to ask a question. To the stage, repeat the question, and he will answer it. It is my pleasure to bring him to you tonight t
That dealt directly with slavery. 12 president s were slave owners and eight owned slaves while in office. Thesesor parry discusses cases and the broader discussion of racism in the states. Now, lets get to todays topic, which i am glad we did because it seems to have struck a chord. U. S. President s who owned slaves while were creating this instrument and democracy, they were leaders who had people enslaved, and we are honored to nave dr. Tyler parry, with an a. Rry received his bachelors of arts from the university of nevada and 2008 and earned his masters degree in 2011 and his phd in 2014 in history from the university of South Carolina. He is currently revising his manuscript entitled love and marriage, domestic relations and matrimonial strategies among the slaves and atlantic world. That intrigues me to no end. His Research Examines the degree diaspora africans and their americanborn dissidence recreated their marital rights in the americas. Utilizing methods from legal, politi
University of South Carolina. He is currently revising his manuscript entitled love and marriage, domestic relations and matrimonial strategies among the slaves and atlantic world. That intrigues me to no end. His Research Examines the degree to which diaspora africans and their americanborn dissidence reimagined their marital rights in the americas. Utilizing methods from legal, political and cultural history, he began his analysis in Atlantic Africa and traces the struggle of african descended people throughout the british, west indies, bermuda in north america for fighting for marital equality. His research has taken him throughout black atlanta, or bermuda, jamaica, england, scotland, lucky guy. He has received crucial funding from various institutions including harvard, duke, university of South Carolina, Florida International university. He has published articles and book chapters on its slave marriage rituals and africanamerican popular culture. In addition to his manuscript rev
From activist investor and its shareholder elliott management. Well have a lot more on the talks around dell and from a tech analyst in just a minute. Also Fiat Chrysler and the uaw reaching a tentative agreement on a new four year labor contract. They threatened to strike if a deal wasnt made by midnight. Also 40 pow uaw workers now must vote to okay that agreement. The last proposal was rejected by rank and File Union Members. Many retailers will report Monthly Sales today. Costco saying its september comps were flat. Analysts had been looking for a small decline. Other corporate news, Deutsche Bank warning of a record pretax loss of almost 7 billion. Among the reason, big write downs at its investment ranking unit. It might cut or eliminate the annual dividend. Sony is moving forward with a plan to sell its half of a sony atv music publishing. The journal reports that the publisher is valued at about 2 billion. It owns the rights to most of the beatles songs. Smartest thing that Mic
Technology that can improve her life in knowing that we have advocates like mom fighting for better care makes me feel hopeful. Host heres the book, belly and coach. Stephanie shaheen is the author. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if i could have your attention, we are going to proceed with your program. I hope you are enjoying your lunch or christmas tea as we have termed it. Welcome to the Reagan Ranch Center. My name is Andrew Kaufmann and i have the privilege of serving as the director of the reagan ranch and merry christmas. I will just go ahead and say it. [applause] is great to have you with us during this holiday season. Holliday is not a bad word as long as its used in the same context with christmas. I would like to as you are enjoying your food already began our program pretty quickly with an invitation followed by the pledge of allegiance but just as we have been told is no longer appropriate to say merry christmas, we have been culturally conditioned ma