And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 664, montserrat, yeah steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you. Jimmy oh please. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Enjoy yourselves. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome to the tonight show, baby. [ cheers and applause ] thats what im talking about. Beautiful crowd tonight. Beautiful new york city crowd. Welcome, everybody. Well heres what people are talking about. Tomorrow is President Trumps 100th day in office. [ cheers ] and in the new interview, trump said that he thought being president would be easier than his old life. [ laughter ] people dont know whats more shocking, that he thought being president would be easy, or that he thought his old life was hard. [ laughter and applause ] i guess yelling, youre fired from your apartment is hard. In the same interview trump actually stopped to hand out electoral maps that show which s
And featuring the legendary roots crew. Questlove 664, montserrat, yeah steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you. Jimmy oh please. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Enjoy yourselves. Welcome, everybody. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Welcome to the tonight show, baby. [ cheers and applause ] thats what im talking about. Beautiful crowd tonight. Beautiful new york city crowd. Welcome, everybody. Well heres what people are talking about. Tomorrow is President Trumps 100th day in office. [ cheers ] and in the new interview, trump said that he thought being president would be easier than his old life. [ laughter ] people dont know whats more shocking, that he thought being president would be easy, or that he thought his old life was hard. [ laughter and applause ] i guess yelling, youre fired from your apartment is hard. In the same interview trump actually stopped to hand out electoral maps that show which s
I will be chairing or moderating the panel. After the three papers i will offer some brief comments, some thoughts, some questions i had in order to make it hopefully start generating conversations for us for the q a portion. I will introduce our three presenters. We will go in the order they appear on the program. The presenters will speak for roughly 20 minutes, and that i will speak for a few minutes and open things up. Our first presenter will be Graham Hodges, the George Langevin professor of history at Colgate University. He has written on africanamericans and labor in new york city, and more recently written a political apathy of david robles, and important figure in railroad activities. He is working on a book that reframes the underground railroad and will hear about his ideas about reframing, thinking about the underground railroad and a larger context if reading freedom making. Kate mazer, associate professor of history at northwestern. She has written on emancipation and wa
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Were at the rotunda at Thomas Jeffersons university of virginia. Up next, we take you to their special Collections Library to learn more about the jefferson papers. Jefferson is the founder of uva. He worked for many, many years to develop a system of education in virginia. Uva was his he said it was his last great project, which he did after he left the white house. He designed the buildings. He designed the curriculum. He served as the first rector of chair of the board of visitors he was intimately involved in details of the building. His vision was its a term that got thrown around today ofan academical vision. At the time a lot of the university basically consisted of one very big building where classes were held and there were dormitory rooms and things like that and jeffersons idea was to essentially make a village out of it, with the students living near the professors and classes being given in the professors homes and so there was all of this constant interaction of student a