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Okay. So i think were ready to get started. Sorry for the delay. But welcome to the first meeting. Our session is called historians in court, examines the complex role of historians applying their scholarly skills to courtroom litigation. Thanks first to the oah for organizing this session and in particular to the president , nancy cott, for her support of our endeavor here today. Today we will address a timely topic, the participation of historians in courtroom proceedings. There is no systemic study, but the evidence we have indicates that the use of, for instance, scholarly am kus briefs where scholarings filed briefs in Court Proceedings has been increasing. Now, there is a long history of scholarly input into Appellate Court cases stretching back at least to the famous brandis brief in 1908. But for our purposes, our pedigree as historians will be traced back to the brown versus board of education in which the distinguished historians helped the naac thrks make the case against Sc

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