The virginia plan for example, the compromise presented at the Constitutional Convention thought the balance of large and small states and bicameral legislature. Another critical compromise is the agreement to tolerate slavery even though it would be prohibited in 1808. Without the compromise the Southern States would never have agreed to ratify the constitution and there would have been you know no United States of america. A great wrong was embedded in our find a shuttle document and the seeds of civil war were stone. The founders, even many of the slaveholders among them acknowledged slavery was an abomination antithetical to the declaration of independence many of them signed. Most hoped it would disappear for economic reasons, but for 80 years americans would live with the start contradictions between the existence of slavery within its borders and the first principle of the declaration that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. Th
Compassionate intelligence, his unwavering dedication to our nation earned him the trust and devotion of our Armed Services his career of Service Began early at william and mary, not many know that he drove a school bus while he was a student, and that he was an assistant troop leader for local boy scouts and a senator as one of his voice gets boy scouts. After graduating in 1965, he joined the cia and was the first career officer to scale the ranks to become this director. He served as president of texas 2002 to 2006. When president bush called him to washington to serve a, as secretary he led our armed forces at a time when the auntry was in the minutes of global fight against terrorism. In 2009 he accepted a request from president obama, becoming the first secretary of defense to serve under president s of different political parties. He received the president ial medal of freedom for his commitment to the security of 2012merican people, and in , he was invested as chancellor and wa
immunity. then there s also we re waiting for a ruling in the civil fraud trial against trump in new york. his sons and trump organization also on the hook there. and this comes after trump was ordered to pay e. jean carroll $83 million after her defamation suit last month. can you take us inside trump s mind right now? what must he be thinking? i mean, we know he s a man who embraces grievance, but this is a lot. it s a lot but he is also an expert conpartmentalizer in a way we ve seen very few people in the political realm be. so he looks at these a couple of different ways. the carroll verdict has infuriated him. we know it s a huge amount of money. we know it s a huge amount of money he doesn t want to pay and he ll have to pay some even as he s appealing it. the colorado ballot case, his team actually feels pretty good about its chances at the supreme court. and they see that as helping them politically, which is why you saw something like that filing today. so, there
Our greatest challenge for that its way spark light is working roundtheclock to keep you connected. We are doing your part so its a little easier to do yours. A spark light, along with these Television Companies support cspan2 as a public service. Doctor nunley is associate professor of history courses and Research Focus on issue of slavery, africanamerican in the early republic. And the American Civil War at cornell university. Her first book at the threshold of liberty woman, slavery andas shifting in washington d. C. It s published by North Carolina press in 2021 which reveals how africanamerican women enslaved fugitive and free imagine new identity and lives beyond their oppressive restrictions and tended to prevent them from extrinsic liberty, selfrespect, and power. She consults a variety of newspapers and documents as a way of thinking about and pursuing the intellectual history and ideas of the africanamerican woman at the time. In her book the demand for justice 1662 to 1855 a
Of the headings is monticello an American Family which went on to win the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award and she was here for her biography of Andrew Johnson and later she shared the stage with the coauthors work most blessed of the patriarchs Thomas Jefferson and the empire of the imagination. And that gordon reed is the University Professor at harvard and the genius grant and Frederick Douglass prize. In her new book the texas born historian it examines her and passed visavis her Lone Star State roots in juneteenth. In the shimmering review in the new york times, jennifer praised the book for the authors ability to combine clarity with the subtlety and showing historical understanding is a process, not an endpoint. Tonight Annette Gordon reed will be in conversation with awardwinning broadcaster, journalist and longtime friend of the author event series tracy. Its great to have you with us tonight. The screen is yours. Its an honor to be with you tonight with Annette Gord