Fessor woody holton from the university of South Carolina. Third we hear from professor eri c slauter from the university of chicago. Finally, we hear from professor David Armitage at Harvard University known fo the declaration of independence a global history. Everyone will speak about 10 to 12 minutes and then we have questions from the audience. I think youre all set. Prof. Brewer thank you to organizers of this conference, which is terrific. When the delegates to the Continental Congress assembled in june of 1776, they faced a dilemma. Fighting between colonists and british troops have been going on more than a year. Political disputes over whether colonists needed to dissent to their own government and taxes remained at a standoff. Some delegates sought peace and redfin scissors peace and reckons lesion with their king. Only seven supported independence. New york, new jersey delaware, and South Carolina were not yet ready to fight. Congress chose a committee of five men to persuad
Race, in terms of the legal restrictions on namericans is fundamentally different, and that is because of actions like these two young girls in st. Augustine, florida. Lonnie bunch, thank you. My pleasure. I thought i might start with inviting you just to share some reflections of coming up in st. Augustine and maybe a little bit about family and schooling and that will sort of help us set the stage for how you emerged as activists in your teenage years. Well, coming up in st. Augustine, st. Augustine to me was a very, very nice, nice town to live in, to grow up in. We had a lot of black businesses at the time that i grew up. Washington street was our main street that had a lot of black businesses. When we started in the movement we didnt start off picketing or demonstrating. We would go down to the st. Pauls a. M. E. Church and sit around and just talk about what we were going to do. You know, that was when school was out. And when we found out that we had someone a leader that would
Here at gettysburg college. It is my pleasure to welcome nelson. Kate she is a writer, historian, and cultural critic. She has taught at multiple in situations like cal state fullerton, harvard, and most recently at brown university. She is now based in lincoln, massachusetts. She writes regularly for the New York Times union blog, for isvil war times, and she the author of a very important book called ruined nations. She has a piece in weirding the war. She brings a muchneeded cultural perspective to the study of civil war, the marriage between military history and cultural history. It has been a long time coming. I think she is at the very forefront of that scholarship, and you will get to see her thinking unfold in her new blog, which will be released in a few weeks, yes . , and of in a few weeks course what megan is really dedicated to come and if anybody can pull it off, it will be her she is trying to make Civil War History hip. [laughter] and i think you are going to do it. Toda
This evening performance and talkback of meet james for an exciting original play commissioned from playwright mercer excited to welcome you to this evening performance and talkback of meet james for net, a play commissioned by Marissa Kennedy for the museum. Khalil williams, who im joined by is the host of history maven, along ongoing project in our museum. Our diversifying living history initiative. After the performance, im going to vacate my seat and give it up to michael idriss, who is the museums African American interpretive, fellow lifelong philadelphian. Hes the brains behind the play that youre going to, see the historic advise around this piece. Written by Marissa Kennedy, which you will see performed by nathan alfordtate. Really excited to be doing a lot with james forten story, not right now when you can visit this cool painting that youll hear more about later. But also in the future, we have exciting programming and exhibitions about the forten family coming up. But im n
Holton he was more than 1000 eyewitness accounts to construct this history. Many of those are freely Available Online for you to read for yourselves. The original words of leading figures of the revolution may be found on founders online, it website hosted by the National Archives with the National Historical publications and records commission. Children in Elementary Schools across america learned of the decal the declaration of independence and the battles led by George Washington. Looking back nearly 250 years, the American Revolution and its outcome can appear inevitable. But engaging and defeating a military power such as Great Britain required the involvement of people from many walks of life. Liberty is sweet uncovers the roles played by women, native americans, enslaved africans, and African Americans, and religious dissenters. Holton also focuses on often overlooked factors such as whether, geography, and disease. Too often, we jump from july 4th 1776 to washingtons first pres