You. Before i go further, i am instructed to tell you to please turn off any cell phones, apple watches, what other gadgets you may have, so they do not interfere with our system. Thank you. As you know our host tonight is Justice Sonia sotomayor. We are pleased to have her with us tonight and want to thank or on behalf of the society for giving her time when we call upon her to participate in events like this. It is quite important to us and quite important to you. We very much appreciate it. I will tell you briefly a bit about the justice. She is a native new yorker, born in the bronx, very unhappy about last night baseball game, i gather. Undergraduate work at princeton and went to yale law school, then joined the District Attorney office in New York County as an assistant District Attorney. She was a litigator in the international and commercial law area. That attracted attention and before long, she had become a Federal District judge on the Southern District of new york. Six year
Constitutional issues the Supreme Court faced during world war i. The first from Supreme Court justice and then a virginia Commonwealth History professor. Im Vice President of the historical society. I want to welcome everybody here to our first lecture of the leon silverman lecture series dealing with the Supreme Court and world war i. This being the 100th anniversary of the end of world war i. We have a very interesting series tonight. Before i go further, however, i am instructed to tell you to please turn off any cell phones, apple watches, whatever other gadgets you may have so they dont interfere with our system here. As you know, our host tonight is justice sonya sowed mior. I want to thank her on behalf of the society for giving her time when we call opinion her to participate in events like this. Because its quite important to us and quite important to you. And we very much appreciate it. Tell you briefly a little bit about the justice. Shes a native new yorker, born in the br
Okay. So oh, goodness. Heres the oh, okay. So heres the auction. Auction block and auctioneers stand. So thats thats the brick dependency. Okay. Thats the duck house. Duck house . A duck house. This is the wash house. Pretty tiny. Yeah. This one has a neat feature on back side of it. It has a drain in the wall where they would just dump [ inaudible ] yeah, yep. Dump the water out. So this is the slave house. My name is jobie hill and were at Green Hill Plantation which is in campbell county, virginia, and im here with the Company Trimble and they are here with me for my independent project which is called saving slave houses. Which is doing documentation of all of the known slave houses in the United States. When i was in school for my masters thesis, i started doing research with the Historic American Building survey collection, which is a wpa program that started in 1936 to get architects back to work. And so 1,000 architects were hired to go out and document significant Historic Str
This was part of the symposium held at the university of virginia in charlottesville. Good morning. In celebration of the bison telling bicentennial, we welcome you to the symposium. Universities, slavery, and the public built landscape, presented by the university of Virginia Commission on slavery and the university, in partnership with the slave dwelling projects Fourth Annual projects. On Vice President and chief officer for diversity and equity, the professor and i cochair the presents cochair the commission on slavery. The slave dwelling project led mr. Joe mug gill and board of directors the slave dwelling project brings attention to sites, people, history, and ways in which the slave contributed to building and sustaining this country. I say 70 to 80 because the temperature dropped about 39 last night. Im not totally sure. They said they had experienced. Humility and a better appreciation for those who live their daily lives is one intent of such an experience. There were very t
Test test test test test test test captioning performed by vitac in the Current Administration of generals, so we have that was an outstanding briefing and its a way to bring good history to and understanding to people to staffers trying to advise senators or congressmen and congre congresswomen and how to preact to policies and issues with regard to that. Anybody else want to comment . Yes, rob. We dont have anything as formal as what dain does but we have seen and i would echo what he said about i think fundamentally people have an interest in history, how we got to where we are today. If you take the view and its debatable and hard evidence perhaps is difficult to come by, that history is not taught as well as it once was or isnt being taught at all. I hear that from older constituents of the Marshall Foundation, more and more people are tending to look to organizations such as ours because of itsz longevity and association with general marshall as being something as authority. A li