White collar crime. Check out website to learn more to work forward a moe just, equitable and Inclusive Society for all. I want to thank everyone who has worked hard to put together this incredible event for you, including our wonderful speaker, dean julia and a terrific book store partner, Marketing Team and all of you for your support. I also want to let you know that todays program will be reaired on cspan booktv following this event. At the opened todays program please stay tuned for Upcoming Events and information pow you can obtainer own company of professor taubs book. We hope you el ask lots of questions today and well take those at the very end of the program. To do so simply speaker enter your questions in he q a box. Ill tune things over now. Thank you to the center for social justice, for organizing and hosting this event and for inviting me to speak briefly as ash yell, im the dean of the University School of law and im delighted to welcome everyone to tonights event. Thou
To vote, the National Portrait gallery, National Archives and the library of congress have created special exhibits. Curators talk about the Creative Process behind the exhibits including determining goals in selecting objects. The berkshire conference of womens historians and the womens Suffrage Centennial commission hosted this event. Im martha jones, a copresident along with tie i cant miles along the berkshire conference. Im happy to be welcoming all of you to this evenings conversation, and i have to extend the special embrace to our members tuning in from all over the world today. With this event, we begin a conference weekend, the big berkes 2020, not as we planned for in baltimore at johns hopkins. Instead, were being linked together by digital sound and image. I, for one, am grateful even for this today. The year 2020 marks 100 years since the 19th amendment, Legal Protection for womens votes became part of the u. S. Ko constitution. For us as historians of womens genders and
Trillion. So its actually more than the previous four combined. And the legislation that shes proposing has a lot of items that arent directly related to the covid19 crisis, they are, as someone said, a wish list of priorities and others have said in the media that its more of a messaging bill. So well see. Among other things it says as an example that they want to change the current law which says that youre limited in terms of how much of a federal Tax Deduction you can take for state and local taxes, thats called the salt issue, and they want to repeal that. That cost, by the way, is about 180 billion dollars, Something Like that. And it would result in about 50 of the benefit, the tax benefit going to the top 1 of the taxpayers. So if that doesnt sound like something thats going to be, you know, impactful in terms of the coronavirus pandemic we face, i can think a lot of better ways to spend that money, including more testing, ensuring our Small Businesses can get back on their fee
Have been coming to again and again this month. This is the fourth installment of the series. We have focused mostly on architecture. You might recall we had House Speaker on the folklife, but this one is different to me. It speaks very clearly and closely to my heart as a historian. I know visitors that come to d. C. , they want to go to library of congress, they are in on and they should be. Researchers cannot wait to read in the main reading room. It lands a certain something lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. Scholars that really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the madison ling is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts are. I am getting this from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jef
In the main reading room. It lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. That is the way it should be, but scholars are really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the Madison Building is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts collection is, and there are 60 million items. This is from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jeff Flannery, an old friend of the society in particular friend of scholars who work in American History, like my former colleagues and i. For 40 years, put together a document history project, and it brought us to jeff virtually every week. He and his staff helped us produce those volumes. Jeff is the head of the reference and services section. He has been in the management for 31 years, and that is all i will say. I know you are mu