Lot on the fact that know who basically Martin Luther king had laid the groundwork and then the sacrifice for Something Like this to happen. I think if it had to happen, chapel hill was the place that it should happen. And im obviously very delighted that i was the person who is in the middle of that. Oklahoma University Law professor Lindsay Robertson discusses the decisions issued by the Us Supreme Court in cases involving the Cherokee Nation, especially the role of chief justice John Marshall. Virginia museum of history and culture preservation virginia and the university of Oklahoma Center for the study of American Indian law and policy cohosted this event. Good morning. Im Elizabeth Kostelny and its my great honor to serve as the ceo of preservation, virginia and to introduce our next speaker. Lindsay robertson is the author of conquest by law that explores the subject that brings us here today. As we conceptualize this symposium lindsay has been invaluable and determining the for
Welcome, everyone, to the final event of whats been a terrific three days. You know, when you start to plan these things and you think oh, well have this person and that person and do all this stuff. There was this moment when we started to put the program on to paper and we said we have 36 different speakers on this thing and it became, you know, exceeded our expectations certainly so thank you to everyone for all the terrific presentations, so, thanks very much. [ applause ] are and this wont be the last that you will have heard from the gathered scholars. We are going to compile an a new volume in our william f. Cody series on the history and culture of the American West with the university of Oklahoma Press so all of the presenters are invited as they know to submit their work for consideration for this volume, and then all of the rest of you are invited to purchase and read that volume when it comes out. [ laughter ] so stay tuned. Its a great pleasure to introduce tonights keynot
Copies at the link and the chat at the right of your screen and the link provided on the website. As isabel and john are talking please submit your questions there is a q a feature at the bottom of the screen and we have six or seven of them or until time allows, the pulse o pulitze in new york bestseller, her debut work when the National Book Critics Award for nonfiction and was named ten best nonfictions of 2010 as well as in your time nonfiction of all time. She has taught at princeton and Boston University and more than 200 other colleges and universities across the United States europe and asia, half the origins of her discontent receiving critical claim and no doubt want to accolades, interviewing this evening is john meeting appoints a prizewinning biographer he is a shooting writer for the New York Times book review and contribute in editor of Time Magazine in the New York Times bestseller the hope of glory, the american odyssey of George Herbert walker bush, Thomas Jefferson a
Mr. Jon meacham, this book came out in august, congressman lewis passed in july, how long have you been working on this . Is a tricky question to answer, on one level it was 28 years, another level it was about six months. I met congressman lewis in 1992 during a Senate Runoff down in georgia, i was a reporter for the chattanooga times. Began kind of a running episodic about running conversation that we had over the ensuing three decades. I really decided to do it when i was standing with my family and Speaker Pelosi and congressman lewis and about a thousand other people on the pettus bridge in march and i realized watching the congressman that this was almost certainly his last trip there. I very much wanted to pay tribute to him but also wanted to hang a lantern on what had driven him to that bridge as a young man. As an example, and exemplum of how religious faith can be essential to political activists. Did he know you are working on this entity sit down with you . We talked a lot
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