myself for five minutes. coates, you state 250 years of slavery, 90 years of jim crow, 60 years of separate but equal, 35 years of racist housing policies until we reckon with our compounding moral debts america will never be whole. why should the federal government bear responsibility for social and economic damages for descendents of the enslaved? .r. coates: thank you chairman the federal government is complicit in it. the article you spoke about, this period of white supremacy that you referenced in the headlines, it is so broad that if i tried to cover it in one article it would have been impossible so i focused on a specific thing, housing segregation and redlining specifically in the city of chicago. the federal government was deeply complicit in housing segregation and redlining and in the plunder of black homeowners in chicago. it would not have existed if the fha had not had a policy of not insuring loans for black people living in chicago. it would not have existed
abolitionists. held at the annual lincoln form symposium this is one hour. our first center this morning is andrew deblanco. his first appearance with the lincoln forum. i hope not the last. he is and alexander hamilton professor of american studies at columbia university where he has won several teaching awards. he is with us. he is a lincoln person and we are delighted even though he is known as a social critic. time magazine has named him america s best social critic. in 2012, president obama awarded him the national humanities metal and he is the author of several books like required reading, the death of satan, the real american dream and the puritan ordeal. and the latest book which is the title of his presentation this morning is the war before the war, fugitive slaves and the struggle for america s full from the revolution to the civil war. andrew? [ applause ] thank you very much. thank you. good morning. i gather the moderator is not here but that is not a pro
continued to keep a diary and capture a civilian perspective on events until 1865 when the war ended and he died of his ailments. the jimmy carter evidential library and museum in atlanta hosted this 50 minute talk. good evening i am tony clark from the carter library. and glad you are here. i find this interesting. i really like diaries. i didn t really start reading a lot until i was reading william scheiber s berlin diary. ever since, i have thought diaries are great way to learn about events as they happen. which is i think really wonderful. having janet here at the carter library is really cool because we are also a civil war historic site. many of you may know during the american civil war this was a plantation, and general sherman use this as his headquarters in the battle of atlanta because it s on high ground here in atlanta. it s from this location that he led his troops to savannah and eventually brings an end to the civil war. is especially important with the bo
we can t continue to hurt the education of our children. as omicron spreads, how can schools make it work? new york city mayor eric adams joins me to discuss ahead. plus, terrorists attack, on the anniversary of an insurrection, one republican lawmaker backpedaled while other pushed for truth. that s how democracies die. are we doing enough to stop that? i ll speak to a prominent republican, governor asa hutchinson, in moments. hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is having cold war flashbacks. the u.s. is entering a series of urgent meetings with russia this week, at one of the most precarious moments with that nation, since the fall of the soviet union. on monday, u.s. officials will meet with their russian counterparts in geneva in an attempt to deescalate the crisis with ukraine which russia seems poised to invade, with the ability to quickly mobilize twice that many. following the bilateral meetings in geneva, representatives from
this is a film about storytelling. about how we tell the story of our country s past. why do we want to believe one version and not another? maybe because it makes us feel safe at night. there is one episode of america s history that is told very differently depending on who you are and where you live. it is the story of our civil war and what came after. the winds of war blew across the land, made of it a country divided. friend turned into foe. brother fought against brother. it was such a long and drawn-out struggle, and the feeling on both sides was so intense. we re all just romantics, lost in contemporary times, you might say. every one of us feels we was born 125 years too late. to introduce myself, my name is rachel boynton. this is nelson walker. hi. we are independent documentary filmmakers. we re making a film about how we tell the story of the civil war. we re filming in lots of different schools, and we re going places with a deep connection to this