Houses project, joined by several archeologists and preservations and a team that came to document Brandon Plantation with a series of 3d laser scans. Were here to do laser scanning and documentation of a slave house that is here. This is part of an independent project i am doing thats called saving slave houses, which is a database of all the known slave houses in the united states. It is a staffing central postory of instrumentation and documentation of slave houses in the united states. I have partnered with turnbull, the company that makes the survey equipment that i use, to do kind of the highest level documentation that is available to us today, which is 3d laser scanning. Its important to do this because one documentation is a type of preservation. Slave houses are buildings that are disappearing from the landscape, so by documenting them, thats one way of preserving them. Documenting them and through my database is also a way to share information and get it out there and learn
Life and times. This is just over an hour. Im john eleff, president of the Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia. The Lincoln Group has existed since the 1930s to honor the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. And this year we have a special opportunity to hear from an extraordinary speaker. And in introducing him i would like to repeat something that he said at the First National Republican Convention that he attended as a young man in 1884. He was part of a reform wing of the Republican Party, and they had an insurgent candidate to be temporary chair of the convention, taking on the candidacy of the Republican National committee. That candidate happened to be the africanamerican congressmen from mississippi, john r. Lynch, and here is somewhere of what our speaker said. It is now less than a quarter of a century this this great city organized it is a fitting thing for us to choose to preside over this convention. One of that race whose right to sit within these walls is due to the
Honor Taylor Branch. Taylor is best known for his trillage of the Civil Rights Movement, america in the king years, the first volume parting the waters won the Pulitzer Prize in 1989. Two successive volumes and still remain essential text to any understanding of the role that Martin Luther king played in transforming our nation. Along the way, taylor won an in addition to the pults administer prize and many other prizes. I think he would agree that this extraordinary career really began in 1970 when he took a very low paid job with Charlie Peters, the legendary founder and editor of the Washington Monthly, a very small circulation political opinion and reporting magazine which still exists. I strongly suspect that taylor learned his trade as a journalist and book author while working for peters for three years. A few years later i went through a similar process myself but working for victor navaski at the nation magazine here in new york. Both of us arguably became buy og gras fers aft
Land. She also talks about her research on the Point Reyes National seashore which used to be a Ranch Community before designated a National Park in 1960s. Her class is about an hour and ten minutes. So today, were going to be talking ant landscapes and preservation and sort of how we change the places your intention is not only understand the history of these protected spaces, but to make the process of preservation more visible. To make it more easier to understand the history of parks and how they have changed over time and sort of more importantly, why they have changed over time. Most of us when we think about preservation, we think about something saying the same. Yet perreservation changes thin. In the context of space here in the u. S. , theres this p presumption that Public Ownership is the best way to protect a landscape. We even see the miniseries by ken burns from a ways back on National Parks. It was called americas best idea, which is taken from a quote from wallace stign
Im delighted to see you all here tonight and to welcome you to this wonderful event and its my distinct plesher to introduce our evening speaker. And i tell them most of them are there because it university is ininterested in them. I tell my students that value of history lies in its ability to see us in a the past in such way that we can reimagine the present and the future. And that perspective can allow us to create a better world than the one in which we now inhabit. And this is precisely the gift that i think our speaker, Michael Kazen brings us to tonight and has shared with the readers of many of his books, such as it biography of Williams Jennings bryan, his place of the political left in American History and most relevantly, his recent study of American Peace activists in world war i. Hes a professor of history. He writes frequently for it new york times. Has lectured wisely in the United States, europe and japan and we are very lucky to have him here with us this evening. Ple