We have a panel called history in the headlines. Sure that we are plugged into these larger issues. It is a burning issue. Certainly the confederate statues. We have the roundtable of scholars from 2017, published in 2019. We wanted to address something that would the contemporary and crash. Discussed silent contemporary and fresh. We discussed silent sam, a statue at the university of north carolina, the board of overseers taking the position against removing it, more protest, and eventually the sale is a really interesting issue, money being donated for the removal. This happened at vanderbilt as well. You had a confederate memorial hall. They paid for the direction of the hall. When it was determined by the university to remove it nearly a century later, you pay the people who erected it, who named it, for that privilege. So now we have the irony of hundreds of thousands, millions of dollars being given to united daughters of the confederacy, which areeties promoting often a very pa
Granddaughter and her husband. [applause] welcome everyone. To the barnum museum. Is this anyones first time here . Welcome to the barnum family. Were glad to have you on this Beautiful Day in the bridgeport, connecticut. It is pt barnums last museum. He started in 1842 and this is his last gift. Not just to the city of bridgeport but to the Global Community we serve. Many of you are familiar with the museum. In 2010, we were hit by a tornado. And of the year after that it was hurricane irene and then super storm sandy. I want to give a set out to our delegation. We are about to embark on a major of that beautiful barnum building. Thank you. [applause] and then to add to that, our congressmen has been really working hard with us to get the barnum building on the National Register but we are in the process of being reviewed to become a National Historic landmark. Theres only about 2500 in this country and that is a significant thing. Its reasons why we are here today because we are stil
[applause] welcome, everybody, my name is scott schaffer, senior editor, pleased to be moderator for this program, joining us today u. S. Senator and democratic president ial candidate michael bennett, senator bennett has represented colorado in u. S. Senate since 2009, before then he served as superintendent of Public Schools in denver where he worked to improve accessibility and quality of information in urban schools and also the author of a new book, a good one i might add, i call the land flickering lights restoring america in age of broken politics, we will talk about the book, unfolds the back story of some of the hyperpartisan conflicts in Congress Today calling washington out on the dysfunctions and running for president of the United States to restore integrity into the government, we are excited to have him here, please welcome senator bennett. Thank you. [applause] well, we are going to talk about the book and, you know, obviously we want to talk about congress and the camp
To have actual images of when i give a talk. This is something of a departure for me. Heres how the structure is going to work. Im going to give very brief introductions for the four people who are sitting here at the table with me and ill do all of them at once. And then im going to go in the order in which these images are going to appear and have each of our Panel Members talk about why they decided to be part of this project. And why they selected the image that they selected. Theyll talk for a little while about the image and then well see where the conversation goes after that. Youll be able to have questions. Let me introduce everybody up here. Ill start with carol riordan, the professor of American History at penn state university. Carol and i taught together there for a long time. Shes the author of a very important book on civil war memory, the military side of it. With a sword in one hand, the problem of military thought in the civil war north. And shes a coauthor with tom v
Good evening i am tony clark from the president ial library. Were delighted to have you for this book and where we are because of the ties of atlanta and the stories i think many of us have never heard before about frederick. But you know the thing that i really like is tonight the author is typical of the type of author and book that we have here, i encourage you to pick up one of these about upcoming authors in effect this thursday cbs 60 minutes correspondent scott kelly will be with us to talk about stories that he has done over the years and ill tell you i read the book it is a fascinating book and scott is a great speaker. We have wonderful author programs coming up and i would encourage you to pick up one of the sheets. I would also encourage you to come back to the museum, we have a fabulous exhibit, its called georgia on my screen. I dont know if you know when jimmy carter was governor he established the Film Commission to bring movies to the state of georgia and now georgia i