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
Territory. And the diplomatic stand off with the United Nations continues the us and russia accused each other of locking resolutions to trying to find the onto the program. Its for jam tay, thats 7 am in gaza, where the relentless is riley. Bombardment of district continues within 6 and a half 1000 palestinians have been killed in the strikes since i began on october 7. Well, over half of the victims of women and children among the latest civilian casualties of the wifes son and daughter of al jazeera correspondent, y a dot to his grandson was also killed in these riley s drive on a house. They had thoughts sheltering harder. Abdel, how made reports heres the voice of 2300000 guys out, relentlessly, reporting on the flight the palestinians, living under looking. And now these really bombardment the perhaps hoping that the tragedy wont touch his own family. Indeed, what is that doing slice . Im not. His 16 year old son, my mood, his 7 year old daughter, sham, and hes 18 months old. Gra
I would like to welcome you, as well as your good from cspan. I am doug swanson, visitor and Service Manager for the National Archive museum and the producer for the noon time lecture series. Before we begin todays program i would like to remind you of a few more we have coming up. Thursday march 16th, damian shields presents on the unforgotten irish. This is the u. S. Launch of the book and a book signing. March 27th, we will present a Film Screening and discussion of follow seeds which is presented in partnership with the d. C. Environmental film festival. To find out more about these and our programs take one of these monthly calendar events or visit our website. Our topic today is agent 110 an american spymaster and the german resistance in wwii by scott miller. Scott miller is an authorer and former correspondent for the wawall street journal. Journal. His first book was a Newsweek Magazine reader selection. He spent two decades in europe and asia reporting from more than 25 count
I would like to welcome you, as well as your good from cspan. I am doug swanson, visitor and Service Manager for the National Archive museum and the producer for the noon time lecture series. Before we begin todays program i would like to remind you of a few more we have coming up. Thursday march 16th, damian shields presents on the unforgotten irish. This is the u. S. Launch of the book and a book signing. March 27th, we will present a Film Screening and discussion of follow seeds which is presented in partnership with the d. C. Environmental film festival. To find out more about these and our programs take one of these monthly calendar events or visit our website. Our topic today is agent 110 an american spymaster and the german resistance in wwii by scott miller. Scott miller is an authorer and former correspondent for the wawall street journal. Journal. His first book was a Newsweek Magazine reader selection. He spent two decades in europe and asia reporting from more than 25 count
We are excited to have molly here for the home that was our country in the war of syria. She is the author of the many books and the patriot act. Joining her tonight is layla who is the edward r quest fellow at the council on Foreign Relations and an International Correspondent with npr based recently in cairo, egypt. From 20112012 she served as the cairo bureau chief for the Washington Post and her foreign coverage of the human toll of the iraq war earned her the George R Polk award in 2007. Booktv is here filming tonight and we are really excited to have them here as well. Without further ado, please welcome your guests. [applause] i just almost knocked that water over right off the bat. I am really excited to lead the conversation today. You are a civil rights attorney, powerful advocate for refuges but to see we are here because she is the author of our home that was a country and it a powerful story of telling the story of syrias past. I just want to start asking why you decided t