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oh, there we go. is that all right. thank you. yeah. so there s a switch on the mics. great. 15 years ago in a journal of american history article john butler challenged historians of modern america to pay attention to religion. in particular, he noted, religious continuing importance in 20th century american politics deserves sustained attention and analysis. scholarship in religious history has pro-life rated over the past 15 years and in political history religion has often retained in butler s evocative term a jack in the box quality, colorful, surprise, anomalous, idiosyncratic but left on the periphery to pop up occasionally rather than systematically, so today our roundtable will address how religion matters in american political history, and we ll do so in three ways. first, i ll ask each of our panelists to focus on a way in which religion matters, that is in their own research how religion plays a role and in situations that they are working on but also ....
through it. it s quite an exciting place. we re delighted to have you back to our second series. some of you came to the first one, and this is the second one. the first one in january, and the topic tonight is biblical influences on religious freedom, but before we get started, so take out your cell phone. if you re in to social media, take a selfie of yourself, and then post it to #museumofthebible. should be right there. a selfie is fine or take a picture of your neighbor. so we placed a few items on your seat, you ll see there, and one of them is a membership brochure. my personal favorite because we are a nonprofit. we exist totally on donations and members and so we hope you ll consider becoming a member in any category. i think there are 27 different categories. you also have a flier on our february speaker series, which is coming up next month, and there s a sheet that lists future programs provided by the museum. we re cohosting tonight s program with the baylo ....
not just biden. of course they are. and there s no evidence of that. but they re going to keep trying because that is the arguments that they want to fuzzy the waters out there. muddy the waters, not fuzzy them. muddy the waters out there. that, by the way, is a tactic that vladimir putin and other authoritarian dictators use. but that s their strategic objective, to make it all seem the same. pete: there you have it. there is no evidence of any of this because i say there is no evidence of this. by the way, vladimir putin. and there it is. the same tired trope that s dominated the dim bulbs on the left since 2016. it s not surprising they are doing so given what has been revealed on a near daily basis. as this program briefly laid out last night, the devon archer transcript obliterates any defense joe biden and his lackeys have been offering. and, further, archer recently told tucker carlson the claims that biden didn t have any knowledge of his son s business deal ....
transformative book he has ever written. one thing i can tell you about tavis is he is serious about this museum and he is serious about dr. king. he will often kneel down and pray at this site because dr. king meant so much to his life to continues to mean so much his life. for those of you who never met he is a ve got to know down to earth guy. he is just like your brother. he is a person that you want to talk to. my first introduction to tavis mosttavis gave some of the thoughtful commentary i have ever heard. tavis is a brilliant young man and he has been brilliant for a long, long time. i know in some ways he is controversial. but what i will say to you is tavis always thinks for himself and whether you agree with him or not or like it or not, he does speak for himself. that is what i love about him. friend.longtime he is much like a brother. i understand that he did play at .he alpha chapter i could go on about travis tavis. i have loved him since i first him. ....
or c-span 2. this is a great day to have a conversation about higher education and typically the role of black universities and colleges in it. in 1997 i had an opportunity to work on educational project with dr. samuel dewitt proctor. many of you know him as president of north carolina. some of you know him as president of university. he spent time in washington, d.c. as a kennedy appointee to the peace corps but a number of you know him as pastor of an stenian church. we had an opportunity to sit in a lovely room similar to this with a donor it s a donor who owns a large and famous family sfwrags. the head of that walked into the rooms. we exchanged niceties. she said can i ask you one question? he said yes. is there a need for black colleges today? and dr. proctor leaned back in his chair, having heard this question for his life. the question not whether there is a need for h fwrvegs cus today. the question is where would america be today without the hbcus. she nod ....