Quite often and many of our most greatest decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go to a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believed in a rule of law. Cspan and the National Constitution center. Welcome you to the land more cases. Our 12 part history series. Exploring the people and the stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most famous dissidents. Tonight, we will be learning more about the dred scott case of 1857. Let me introduce you to our two guests to tell us about the history and impact of this case. Chris bracey is at George Washington University Law school professor. He is also the coeditor of a book called the dreads caught case and contemporary perspectives. Welcome. Martha jones is at the university of michigan. She is a history professor there and also the chair of afro american and codirector of the race line his
And Megan Phelps Roper recounts growing up as a member of the Westboro Baptist church. Watch our live coverage of the wisconsin book festival today starting at 11 30 a. M. Eastern. And be sure to catch the texas book festival in october and the Miami Book Fair in november on booktv on cspan2. Coming up in the next hour we will speak with local authors about the citys history and learn how it came to be known as a glass capital of the world. Later the toledo van band crash of 1931. We begin our special feature with the citys mayor. I think places like toledo are often taken for granted there is a such wonderful history here. They had built things. The first big break that this region got was when the glass pioneers moved from the east coast primarily boston. Drawn by rich reservoir natural gas. Brought his Glass Company to toledo and opened a plant on ash street in north toledo. Its on the same site today. The glass industry was big and important into in toledo once did that. As the eco
Quite often, most of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who stuck together because they believed in the rule of law. Cspan and the National Constitution Center Welcome you to the landmark cases. We explore the people and stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most famous decisions. Tonight you will be learning more about the dred scott decision. Let me introduce you about the two guests about the history. A professor and coeditor of a book of the dred scott case. Welcome to our program. Thank you for having me. Martha jones is from the university of michigan and the chair of the Africanamerican Studies Program at the law school. They can for having me. Blacks, whether free or slaves werent citizens of the United States. And they limited the spread of sliverry and saying congress didnt have the authority. So
First is john quist, the tall one standing behind michael birkner. History. Rofessor of he teaches classes in 19 century u. S. History and 20th century as well. He studied at the university of michigan. A student of james mills important portend. John has published a very important book entitled the social roots of antebellum reform in alabama and michigan. And his cospeaker today is michael birkner. Michael is the Benjamin Franklin professor of liberal arts and 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 pivotal role in the transition. Let me just say, there is not a person on this faculty that i rely more on than michael birkner. He has been indispensable to what i have done here, with my staff has done, and the way we have been able to connect with Gettysburg College students. And they are students who adore him. I hear time and time again that michael birkners class on historica
First is john quist, the tall one standing behind michael birkner. History. Rofessor of he teaches classes in 19 century u. S. History and 20th century as well. He studied at the university of michigan. A student of james mills important portend. John has published a very important book entitled the social roots of antebellum reform in alabama and michigan. And his cospeaker today is michael birkner. Michael is the Benjamin Franklin professor of liberal arts and 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 pivotal role in the transition. Let me just say, there is not a person on this faculty that i rely more on than michael birkner. He has been indispensable to what i have done here, with my staff has done, and the way we have been able to connect with Gettysburg College students. And they are students who adore him. I hear time and time again that michael birkners class on historica