And be part of the National Conversation through cspans daily washington journal program, or through our social media feed. Cspan, created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television hot provider. Jacob of inside elections joins us via zoom for a deep sive on the senate battlefield. F inside elections on friday demor released its updated race rankings of every senate race and the headline take away, democrats poised to take contro. Of the senate. Jacob, explain why. Good morning, john. So like you said last week, we shifted eight of our senate races, all were democrats. And like you said, what this indicates is that democrats are now in very good position to retake control of the senate for the First Time Since they lost it in 2014. Now, there are a lot of different reasons. A race by race basis, why the senate is looking so much bettew for democrats this cycle. But the main reason why were in this position now starts at the ve
The bay area the festival to have a virtual conversation. I represents the 13th Congressional District in the most enlightened in the nation. That discussion doctor Carol Anderson about how Voter Suppression is destroying our democracy a renowned historian educator and author the professor of africanamerican studies and the author of white rage. The unspoken truth of our nations divide. A great admirer of her work and explore the legacies of slavery and unequal nation doctor Andersons Book chronicles the history of Voter Suppression in america including all of the current ways the Republican Party is undermining voter rights. Im delighted to have you here and to talk about what we can do to fight back on those efforts the most fundamental and sacred rights that we have is the right to vote and this occurs each and every day in our country. Thank you again. Let me ask you a question doctor, you explore the history of Voter Suppression with the focus on the recent past following the Supr
Recent book one person, no vote how Voter Suppression is destroying our democracy. Doctor anderson is a renowned historian, educator and author. She is the Charles Howard kammer professor of every american studies at Emory University and the author of white rage, the unspoken truth of our nations divide. Im a great admirer of her work exploring the legacies of slavery, segregation, and discrimination and how we remain fundamentally an unequal nation, 400 years after the arrival of african slavery in north america. Doctor Andersons Book one person, no vote chronicles the history of Voter Suppression in america including all the current ways the Republican Party is undermining Voting Rights. Doctor anderson, i am delighted to have you here to talk with you about your work, its wonderful to you. I want us to talk about what we can do to fight back against efforts to suppress the most fundamental and sacred rights we have committed right to vote. We know that this is the current each and e
Great modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great, he really mines the resources of president ial libraries. He has come here to the carter library, gone through and found very interesting documents other people had not seen before. Hes done that at other president ial libraries. Combined with that, he has also mined the resources of archives on various evangelical organizations that have become involved in politics. In addition to that, on top of his Research Skills he is an excellent writer. I had the privilege of reading many of his books including the one thats just come out. I can tell you as much as i have followed the subjects and done my own research, there were many points i came across new information, i said, wow, that really explains whats going on. If you want to understand the difference in the United States between the 1970s and 1980s. In case you have forgotten, there were very significant differences and you wanted to know about the transition to
He talks about the lessons he has learned from past research including complex causes and responsibilities of the war. He is the author of the cause lost myths and realities of the confederacy. His talk was part of a symposium held at the library of virginia in richmond. This years symposium here did not come together as smoothly as they often do and as smtly as i would like. Thats entirely my thought. It took me a long time before i arrived at a concept and a title that worked. My working title for a long time was the civil war bucket list, what you should know before you go. A title that just didnt sing for some reason. I want to thank our longsuffering panelists for bearing with me as i arrived at a workable concept and title. I did have a clear idea what have i wanted this symposium to be, a blend of wellknown speakers who would discuss what they learned about the civil war blended with lesser known speakers who you should want to know well and will want to know well and have them