All right. We need to go ahead and get started with our first session today. And it is wonderful to see quite the turnout at 8 30 in the morning for a panel on James Buchanan, which is we all know that James Buchanan is often overlooked, but we are going to remedy that here in just a moment. I want to quickly introduce our two speakers. First is john quist. John is the tall one standing behind michael. He is a professor of history at shippensberg university. He teaches classes in 19th century u. S. As well as civil war era. He studied at the university of michigan under j. Mills thorton. Recall Michael Nieberg who you heard last night also a student of j. Mills thorton. John has published a very important book entitled the social roots of antebellum reform in alabama and michigan, and his cospeaker today is michael burkner, excuse me, professor of history at gettysburg college. Many of you might remember that michael was the interim director of the Civil War Institute. He played a pivo
Emeritus at Mississippi State university where he taught courses on the civil war, jacksonian america and race relations. He earned his ph. D at notre dame and earned his faculty in Mississippi State in 1973 and during his time at Mississippi State, he also served the director and mentor of distinguished scholars and as the executive director and managing editor of the ulysses s. Grant association and the papers of ulysses s. Grant project, with grants papers being housed at Mississippi State university. Hes the author and editor of more than a dozen books and 250 articles that is impressive. Including his important work sherman. A soldiers passion for order, a finalist for the lincoln prize. Dr. Marslech received the Richard Wright literary award for Lifetime Achievement by a mississippi author and the Mississippi Historical society presented him its highest award the blc wales award for National Distinction in history. Hes currently at work on a book on the development of the mytholo
Of the ada, past, present, and future. President George H W Bush signed the americans with disabilities act into law on july 26, 1990. That was 27 years ago. The ada was one of the First Federal civil rights laws, focused on protecting persons with disabilities and against discrimination and public accommodations and services and telecommunications. I am especially proud to hide the commissions role in the commission of that law. The disabilities focus and legislation in a 1983 report titled accommodating individual responsibilities. A former staff attorney with the commission of who was one of the primary authors of the report , described his job as statistics, social scientific, literature, legislation, legal commentary on the status of people with a disability in American Society and in the law. In conclusion of the report was society has tended to isolate and segregate people with disabilities and despite that progress discrimination , continues to be a serious and pervasive social
New museum of the American Revolution. A few yards over on this side is Independence Hall, which everyone knows. Between these Historic Buildings is Carpenters Hall which is less well known but also a structure of significance to all americans because it was here that the Continental Congress met for the first time and made the decision that eventually led to the open revolution and the declaration of independence. Were on the first floor of Carpenters Hall and youll remember from your perhaps grade School History lessons that in 1773 a group of supposedly indians, at least they were dressed up that way, threw a lot of chests of tea in the Boston Harbor in protest of taxes levy by the crown in parliament, along with imports to america. The british had a strange idea that maybe the columnists ought to pay for some of the defenses that they are providing against the french and other people who have interest in north america. At any rate, the crown was furious and as a result they passed
Nafta. Former mexican trade officials talked about the likelihood of an agreement eating reached and how much Bargaining Power mexico has based on its trade deals with other countries. From the wilson center, this is two hours. Mr. Wood good morning. Will you come down and take a seat here. If youre looking for a place, we are willing to sell these place at an inflated price. There are scalpers outside. Do not use them. Just give the money directly to me. Welcome to the wilson center. Thank you for being here. When we talked about the event, a little voice inside my head said you are crazy, its washington, no one will come. They said maybe the nafta is important enough, maybe our existential questions will attract an audience, and then we came up on bright idea of asking mexicos chief negotiator to participate. Ken said yes, and this is going to happen. It is extraordinary. And then ken said, no, i can do it. So i apologize for misleading you. It was not intentional. But we got a panel