This event and provided the video. It is my pleasure to introduce nicole myers. Nikole turner is a sister professor of religious studies. She earned her phd in history at the university of pennsylvania. Her masters in divinity new york and her bachelors degree in political science. From high referred college. She is the author of this sole liberty the evolution of black religious politics imposed emancipation virginia. Before asking her the first question, i want to mention that this appears in this kind of conventional version of a hard copy it also has two other versions. Part of what makes her work so interesting is that it makes it possible to it is available as a conventional verbatim open access ebook and also as an enhanced open access ebook which shows off what dr. Turner was able to do with mapping and Digital Technology in order to develop her research findings. So one of the things i hope we will get to talk about today is how she worked with those sources and what kind of c
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He wants to ignore any allegation against russia and its president Vladimir Putin the Washington Post has reported that several american soldiers are believed to have died because of the Russia Program the White House Press secretary has reiterated that trump was not briefed on the alleged russian bounties there is no consensus within the Intelligence Community on these allegations and. In effect there are dissenting opinions from some in the Intelligence Community with regards to the veracity of whats being reported on the veracity of the underlying allegations continue to be evaluated glen karl is a former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for transnational sorites with the cia he says the information would have been conveyed to the president. He spent my career doing this and i know how things are funneled up the chain of command or what kind of things are in something of this importance would absolutely be briefed to the white house now did a cia officer sit down and speak direc
Of earlier discussions about the meaning of fremont when we thought about free communities, free black folks in the north and the south and how we came up with this way of representing freedom as freedom with a line through it. Not quite freedom to freedom. Right, this question of freedom and what did it mean. And so, for today were going to be talking about what did freedom mean and in particular, well be thinking about what did freedom mean to the free people, right. And in 19 january of 1865, secretary of war, Edwin Stanton and Union General William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah, georgia, and they wanted to find out from these preachers basically what is it that free people wanted from freedom . What did they expect and particularly wanted to know what did they expect in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation. The group of 20 people, who was representative of free black folks in the community, selected one person, garrison frazier, a 67yearold man, to b
Greetings. Its a pleasure to see you all here. Its always great to see probably all are familiar faces. We saw most of you in november and hope to see most of you again in november and in between in september for our memory conference. Stephen had said unfortunately dr. Stoler tried his best. Slipped on the way and caught his balance. All three flights from burlington, vermont were cancelled to get him here yesterday. While we are disappointed, he is even more disappointed that he couldnt make it back down here and present. But i can tell you that we are very fortunate in this great city to have one of the leading scholars in this field here to fill the breach. And enlighten us with the first panel of the day. He has been a friend since before we had a building. Not just a hotel, but an actual museum. He goes back with nick mueller and Stephen Ambrose all the way to the early days as a master Student Affairs and then went to harvard to obtain his phd and then came back home to join the