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welcome to this panel. i will introduce our panel. we will look forward to the responses with you in the audience for a broader conversation. first we will have beth hates. f is a professor in the department of african-american studies at wayne state university. excuse me. departmentis a professor at wayne state university. she is the author of two books. porters s pullman the politics of black america. 1914-1917. her second book is, the making of black detroit in the age of henry ford, 1920 1945. she is currently completing another book on detroit titled, black detroit and the promise of america, 1940 1-1970, which she is co-authoring with timothy h s. awill have michael fellow in the michigan test in the of egalitarianism metropolis at the university of michigan. he is currently working on a manuscript entitled, wildcat of the stritch streets, which examines police reform and postwar detroit alongside social organizations. we will have heather thompson. heath ....
as far away as new york. maybe further. we are always delighted to welcome our visitors. we want to also welcome our viewers by c-span. so i want to let folks in the room know that c-span is here to cover this afternoon s conversation. after alvin felzenberg i speak we will open up the floor for q&a. we will ask those with questions to come down to the microphones that are just here. and ask your question from the microphones. speak right into the microphone ck the madison program here is dedicated to providing our students and members of our community with the best possible civic education. we believe, as mad dissen taught, only a well-educated people can permanently be a free people. so we want to do our part by contributing to the education of our fellow citizens, students and others, when it comes toby fundmental questioned of american constitutionalism and basic political thought. of course, like princeton university as a whole, we re a nonpartisan organization and ....
i have been inspected to tell you to silence your cell phones at this point. thank you to the museum of art for hosting us. we would like to thank public media and the book laws for their continued support. tonight s raffle winner will receive a copy of soldier spy for the evening author event please stay and join us for cookies after the event under it stage and anthony will be signing books after the event. if you have trouble with the stairs, you can enter behind us. his work in the fields of modern military history and intelligence off and on for 40 years. he joined the united states marine core and serving as an infantry officer and historians. most recently he was the historian for the cia museum responsible for developing a strategic plan and helping turn artifacts into compelling stories. secret adventures, 1935-1961. a riveting international ethic ranging from the civil war to the liberation. it is the stunning untold story of a literary icon art. without furth ....
lead role in the congressional investigation of the alger hast spy case. in 1952a u.s. senator and is elected vice president of the united states so in seven short years he rose from being mr. nobody from nowhere, to quote the great gatsby, to being one of the most successful politicians in america. even if his career just ended then, he would still be remembered for that meteor rise. he did spend his entire life preparing to be president. he was an extremely studious child, young adult, man, vice president, and then eight years of what they called the wilderness years when he was out of office. he continued educating himself, traveling around the world, making connections that he would use to really change american diplomacy drastically and greatly in his very first term as president. ente with russia, china, theent with evacuation from vietnam, laying the groundwork for a massive reelection victory and realigning american politics from a new deal coalition that had do ....
i m 111 years of bipartisan land conservation, which began with president roosevelt s leadership. the most glaring example is an ongoing attack on the antiquities act in general and the national monument in particular. trying to roll back as a taxpayer weight especially at a time when the administration is proposing significant staff cutbacks. in my opinion, another management designation is that they are seers intertribal coalition inspectors working to protect these lands. i believe any action by the administration to undermine protection for any other national monument is illegal and i will strongly oppose any legislative attempt to weaken this monument status. secretary zinke, the administration also attempting to unilaterally rule that has gone into effect on the blm mapping rule. the department now statistically dubious decision to suspend the methane waste prevention rule. this is a commonsense rule that implements in 97-year-old requirement to prevent ....