University. The notion is this our university should be empowered to look in the mirror and be honest with herself, we use it in a way of talking with leadership and talking about our society that institutions that are healthy and secure and should be willing to recognize whatever is going well and to be willing to say that we have a way to go. Its empowered to be honest with itself. In the subtitle which is shared leadership, culture change in academic success starts with the notion its not about one person, is not just about the University President , its about all of us working together with the vision of educating students, that is the notion of empowerment. I found the subtitle interesting because if you look at the cover of the book, you dont have one listed higher than the other or greater priority, you really have them almost laid out as a circle that we all rely on each other. Thats exactly right. Why was that you really tell important stories in this word the university is ne
In brown vs. The board of education. In that case the Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation of schools. Good evening and welcome to everybody. Im a Vice President of the Supreme Court Historical Society and delighted to see everybody here tonight in our second lecture of the leon silverman series on dissents in the Supreme Court. Were very privileged tonight to have as our host Justice Kagan. She will be introducing our distinguished speaker very shortly. Let me just tell you a few things about Justice Kagan. You may or may not know. Born in new york, raised in new york, educated at princeton, oxford, and Harvard Law School. Then became a clerk to judge abner mikva on the d. C. Circuit followed by a clerkship with justi Justice Thurgood marshall here at the Supreme Court. Then a law practice and in 1991 entering academia teaching at the university of Chicago Law School where she met professor barack obama. Two years later invited back to washington to work for the Senate Judiciary
Gettysburg won the james j. Roberts award for best civil war book that year and his book on confederate goliath earned the prestigious award on Civil War History given out yearly from the new york city civil war roundtable. Lets give rod gragg a warm welcome. [applause] thank you. Pleasure for me to be in a room full of historians and i say that seriously because i have learned that i may write a lot but the folks who really know the civil war are those of you who read a lot. And i appreciate that. Before i begin, if you dont mind, id like to tell you the story about the young history major what decided after he got a bachelors degree in history, he probably ought to get a masters degree in business so he could earn a living. So he was accepted, enrolled in a distant Prestigious School of business and wondered soon after he got there if he made the right decision because he failed his first exam and so did everyone in the class. Now, the professor was notoriously irrascable, he came in
Thank you, jerry, so much. As you can tell from that introduction, before coming here, i couldnt keep a job. Jerry, thank you for everything you do for the Supreme Court Historical Society and everything that the Supreme Court Historical Society does for the Supreme Court. The Historical Society does extremely important work in reminding people of the importance of our constitution and our judicial system and its history. And were deeply appreciative. This evening marks the second of the societys 2019 leon silverman lecture series, which is devoted this year to dissents and the spupreme court. On my way over here, professor driver and also jerry libin reminded me that ive written a few of those. Tonights speaker is professor justin driver, professor of law at yale law school. He teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law, and hes the author, most recently, of a book called the schoolhouse gate public education, the Supreme Court, and the battle for the american mind. That boo
Jim biggs. [applause] its always special to have them. Welcome, everyone, to the barnum museum. I know many of you have been here before, but is this anybodys first time here . Oh, well, welcome. Welcome to the barnum family. Were delighted to have you on this Beautiful Day in downtown bridgeport, connecticut. This is the barnum museum. It is, in fact, p. T. Barnums last museum. As we all know, he started his museum inn 1842, and this was hs last gift not just to city of bridgeport, but really to the Global Community that we serve. Many of you are very familiar with thewe museum. In 2010 we were hit by a tornado because thats the kind of stuff that happens to barnum. And then the year after that it was hurricane irene, and then the year after that it was superstorm sandy. Want to also give a huge shoutout to state of connecticut and our delegation who supported a 7 million bonding because we are just about to embark on a historic recap of thatde gorgeous barnum building from 1893. So t