most folks know that it is going to happen. most folks understand that by 1944, president roosevelt is not going to complete his fourth term in office. the question is, when, and who is going to take on this responsibility? to help us talk about or, think about this period of truman, assuming the presidency and then ending the war, there are three main questions we are going to try to answer. the first one is, why harry truman, as a vice presidential candidate in 1944? the second question is, what is a postwar europe look like, the third one, how is truman going to end the war in the pacific? when we think about truman as a vice presidential candidate, he would have been the most surprise person to be on the ticket. in fact, going into the convention, in 1944, truman is sitting senator from missouri. he is there to give a nomination speech for james burns, for the vice presidential nomination. he does not aspire to be president. his wife doesn t aspire for him to be a preside
speeches and what they revealed about his views on the constitution. the national constitution center in philadelphia is the host of this event. and now it is such a pleasure to introduce our extremely distinguished panel of americas leading lincoln scholars to discuss lincoln s speeches and the american idea. michael burlingham holds the chancellor naomi b lynn, distinguished chair and lincoln studies of the university of illinois springfield. he s the author of several books of lincoln, including lincoln observed, the inner world of abraham lincoln and the two volume american law around lincoln s life as well as his new book, which he will be discussing tonight, the black man s president, abraham lincoln, african americans, and the pursuit of racial equality. noah feldman is the felix frankfurter professor of law, chair of the society of fellows, and founding director of the julis-rabinowitz program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. he s the author of nine
Negro soldier toca the film was directed by arguably the top director in hollywood at the time. In the film they covered africanamerican military service in this country from the 1770s to world war ii. There was no mention, no image of a single soldier or sailor. 10 of the union army. African made of 1 of the northern population. Highest awarded but not a single mention. Why . The story was indeed a lost story. There was active suppression of the story. When we talk about who suppress the story he will hear it was the lost cause. Theres a southern Propaganda Campaign but sought to make it appear that the war was not fought over slavery and a part of it was suppressing the africanamerican story. If it was the southerners and the lost cause, i do not think they could cap get out of that. Ar Department Film this is from our elite universities. A lost story. They were suppressing the story. It was won by a union, a team of persons of africanamerican descent. Theres a plus, not an or. Thats
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