Influenced her work and how it formed her view of german citizens during world war ii. It was hosted by the World War Ii Museum in new orleans. Welcome back. This next session is a unique one for our conference. For those who come here regularly, youre used to seeing the biggest and brightest minds in the field of world war ii history. This normally means the bestselling authors of history books, leading professors, dotcomtarians, but when we were planning this years program, we decided to mix it up by inviting a novelist and only the second one that weve hosted in the conferences for the entire time weve been doing these. Don miller is also one of our longeststanding advisers and counselors. Hes a conference press. Hes also like we heard from Rick Atkinson this morning, hes looking into another time period in our important period in our history and will be soon coming out this october with vicksburg grants campaign that broke the confederatety. When the committee decided on this idea
Portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do something a little bit different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed for months. We reopen this weekend. In recent weeks in the united states, millions of people all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice. Whether its racially motivated Police Violence or racially motivated monuments of memories. Its a conversation that we must engage in. Working here at monticello, we are a sight of memory. Monticello was a plantation where over 400 people were enslaved. Today, we decided that to have a conversation it, we would do something that we havent done, and im sure everyone knows this, youre not actually talking to Thomas Jefferson. Youre talking to, again, my friend bill who portrays Thomas Jefferson. Bill is going to join us today. When he does so, he will be out of character. We tal
And monticellos historic interpretation manager, Brandon Dillard, discuss how depictions of both slavery and jeffersons life have changed over recent decades. Thomas Jeffersons Monticello recorded this program and provided the video. Good afternoon. My name is Brandon Dillard and i am the manager of historic interpretations at monticello. In previous live streams, i am behind the camera reading questions from our audience as they come in, so we can engage with you while we are talking to our first person, interpreter actor bill barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do Something Different this week. Given the National Conversation and given that it is all around us, we know 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed. We reopened this weekend. And in recent weeks in the united states, millions of people all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice, whether it is raciallymotivated Police Violence or racia
Questions, Colonial Williamsburg and monticello. Thomas Jeffersons Monticello recorded this program and provided the video. Good afternoon. My name is Brandon Dillard and im the manager of historic interpretation here at monticello. You might recognize my voice because in previous live streams im usually the guy behind the camera and im reading questions from our audience as they come in so that we can directly engage with you while were talking to our first person interpreter actor bill barker who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do something a little bit different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed for months. We reopen this weekend due to a Global Pandemic and in recent weeks in the United States, millions of people all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different form of racial injustice, whether its racially motivated Police Violence or ra
Report recorded this conversation. You might recognize my voice, because in previous life streams, im usually the guy behind the camera, and im reading questions from our audience as they come in so that we can directly engage with you while were talking to our first person interpreter actor bill barker, who portrays Thomas Jefferson. We wanted to do Something Different this week. Given the National Conversation and given events all around us, we know that 2020 has been a challenging year. Monticello has been closed for months. We reopen this weekend millions all over the country are actively fighting for equity against different forms of racial injustice, whether its racially motivated Police Violence or racially motivated monuments, memories. Its a conversation that we must engage in. And working here at monticello, we are a site of memory, and monticello is a plantation where over 400 people were enslaved. Today we decided that, to have a conversation, we would do something we haven