The political history of the coming of the civil war is as important as history can get the only timeause weve ever had in the political system disintegrated. Have three people to talk about this. We have tried to mix the generations. Comment. State general we like to mix the generations. We dont want everyone as old as me. Our first speaker will be pamela brand line. She holds a professorship in Political Science at the university of michigan. She has also taught at ut austin. Historians andof social scientist to. She is the author of two important books. Rethinking the judicial system of resettlement. A title long before the age of trump. That was a slip, i didnt mean that. Honestly. Pamela is going to speak on the of rethinking Party Appeals and capitalist contexts. Lynnecond speaker is josh who is a postdoctoral fellow here at yale. Hes part of the macmillan center. He did his phd at the university of North Carolina at chapel hill. Is teaching a course here at yell on jacksonian de
Prominent africanamerican women. The daughter of a teacher and reporter, she discusses her early interest in the law and her experience as the first africanamerican woman to graduate from the university of virginia law school. This 2000 interview is approximately 80 minutes and was conducted by julian bond. Julian bond welcome back to the university of virginia. This is an exploration in leadership and i like to start with your earliest years. ,t is sometimes for people difficult for them to be introspective. But you can from a household with a strong mother and a small father, and a strong what effect they have on you . There were three of us children. It was a party at the dinner table. They sayd father opposites attract. But that is not what happened there. Night,dinner table each one of us, parents included, would have to defend ourselves. We would be taken to task by the other four of them. On a subject that happened that day or did not happen. You found yourself trying to sink or
Of the book that we will be selling in our shop. The book is called curating america journeys through stories gives of the american past. Is a beautifully written book. I had such fun preparing for this evening because it is the perfect combination of you as an incredible scholar with an enormous amount of academic background and a deeply personal and funny and warm i urge you all to have a look at it. What we are going to do is talk for about 40 minutes, and then open it up for questions from all of you. So, i think richard is going to start is off by reading a few paragraphs from the book. Theard so, this sunday, 29th, will be the 50th anniversary of a trip i took as a disgruntled, tired, bored graduate student in history. I went out to an outdoor History Museum in Central Massachusetts called old sturbridge village. Some of you have been there. It was a day like today, but 30 degrees colder. Instead of rain, it was a lot of snow. I pretty much had the whole museum to myself that day
Events, warm and fuzzy, highly entertaining, song and dance, one day festivals, period. Isnt it funny how when you want to do africanAmerican History, . E can do a oneday festival not caucasian history . The department had a longrange plan. They were going to build a visiting center one day, that was going to be stateoftheart, and there would be some exhibits in their exclusively in there, exclusively dedicated to telling the story of slavery. Includeld africanAmerican History, without even slightly changing the tour. In 1988. Ill in focus, what they didnt understand was that Lessons Learned during the Civil Rights Movement should have conveyed to policymakers that expected automatic deference and acceptance of the status quo representations of africanAmerican History and culture, like slavery itself, had passed irrevocably into history. Thatd passed the point africanamericans would say, if you think thats the best thing, thats what we are going to do. Please. [laughter] durant puther
This research . It was because i feel at the time of Ronald Reagan, accomplished so much. I mentioned restoring pride in america, creating a booming economy. And bringing freedom to millions in Eastern Europe and the phoenix communism, which in my opinion is the most important historical event of the second half of the 20th century. We do not have thousands of Nuclear Missiles aimed at us, at least from russia anymore. Life in the late 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, was involved in fighting communism. But the cold war. Proxy wars here and there, korea, vietnam, many other examples. It wasnt present like that in the 1960s. That communist and at the berlin wall, communism and i will end with this, many people think that the first time ronald called for the berlin war to be torn down, when he yelled, mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall. Thats not when it happened. It was 1967 during a televised kennedy, itrobert was a question that Ronald Reagan answered and on may 15, 1967 call to tear down the lan