Something. It was a miracle they lived through it. Just two frightened kid, the night terror knocked on their door. You said move over here. A loving pastor s family, instant targets. I heard the first chart go off and said i love you. They were the only ones who survived, and no one knew then how long justice would take, or what it would cost. Were you frightened, terrified that they would come back? absolutely. The chilling manhunt. A young survivor, driven to become a state senator. He was very, very passionate. With the ever come out of the dark? i can t believe it s been this long. 30 years later, an answer. The power of forgiveness. This is what my dad and my mom taught me. It was time, to put it to rest, in his 40s and married again, he started fresh here on the beach of malibu. It was time, finally, to put it to rest. Use hollywood to release those demons of his, get the nightmares in the rearview mirror. I look back, it was building a coat of armor. That was killing me and it
Fox business, kennedy, and former education secretary and fox news contributor bill bennett. First in chicago, police say this weekend was the city s deadliest this year. 100 people total were shot and 18 killed. A 6yearold girl among those wounded in the shootings and in that same location eight hours earlier, a 5yearold girl was shot. Two chicago police officers were also shot and wounded yesterday while trying to disperse a crowd. In houston, one police officer was shot. In milwaukee, two police officers were wounded in a fireworks attack. In las vegas one police officer was shot and another one to do new york city, at least 26 people were shot over the holiday weekend and the numbers of shootings rising more than 42% year to date. Brazen looting taking place in san francisco yesterday as thieves target a neiman marcus store and can be seen. Mr. Secretary, i d like to start with you on this. These numbers are frankly staggering. Yes they are staggering. And let me say, not only the
Historical society. I am louise mirrer, new york s historical president and ceo. And i m happy to see all of you this morning. Today s program frederick douglass, abraham lincoln, and emancipation is the president bill clinton lecture in american history at new york historical. And i d like to thank our great trustee and benefactor bernard schwartz for his generosity in making this event, along with so many of our public programs possible. [ applause ] i d also like to recognize and thank one of our trustees who has joined us today. And that is one of our panelists david blight. I ll take this opportunity to say how proud we are to count david among our trustees at new york historical. I also want to recognize laura washington and mercedes franklin who are cochairs of our frederick douglass council, and of course welcome all the members of our frederick douglass council who have joined us today. [ applause ] and i want to recognize a longstanding and very special friend of new york his
Captioning performed by vitac we are delighted to welcome this morning s guest speakers. David blight is class of 1954 professor of american history and director of the center for the study of slavery, resistance and abolition at yale university. He s the author of a dozen books including editions of douglass s first two autobiographies. His most recent book won the 2019 pulitzer prize for nonfiction and 2019 francis partman prize. In 2001 he was awarded the frederick douglass prize. Edna greene medford is professor of history at howard university. She specializes in africanamerican history, the civil war, and reconstruction. She s a member of several advisory boards, among them the association for the study of africanamerican life in history, the lincoln forum, abraham lincoln association, the abraham lincoln institute and the group of president lincoln s cottage. She s the author of several books. Harold holzer is director of roosevelt house public policy institute at hunter college.
Narratives, than what they are narratives conveying more than what they are structure churly defined by in an object itself. For those of you who missed last week s program, let s talk about this book. How did it come about and how effective do you think it is at conveying the narrative suite of the civil war in had only 50 objects? well, it came about as i confessed last week because louise mirror asked me to undertake the project for the historical society. And it was a lucky day for me. And you remember we got to see three times 50 objects, an array before us on some conference tables in the historical society so it was a matter of picking representative objects, exciting objects, which, as you say, stand in for the big history of the civil war item by item, personal story by personal story. And it was remarkable at the end that we constructed the history of the war from the abolitionist movement to the 13th amendment which abolished slavery. And it was great fun to work with you on