Abolish slavery. In an hour, Princeton University History professor examines the history of written constitutions from the 18th century to today. Good evening. One of the leading historians his work focused on the self examining economic social system that shaped southern life. His books include the Ruling Class the radical and republican and triumph of antislavery politics and freedom national. They later won the prize and annual award for the scholarly work in english on Abraham Lincoln or the civil War Era and from California Berkeley hes been on the faculty of the university of new York Graduate center since 1997 and the holder of the Graduate School of Humanities Chair since 98. He teaches courses on contracts with criminal law and regulations. He attended princeton university, Oxford University and Yale Law School and served as a Law Clerk for the judge of the united States Court of appeals. He was awarded for his book race, crime and the law and recent books include race, affirm
From California Berkeley hes been on the faculty of the university of new York Graduate center since 1997 and the holder of the Graduate School of Humanities Chair since 98. He teaches courses on contracts with criminal law and regulations. He attended princeton university, Oxford University and Yale Law School and served as a Law Clerk for the judge of the united States Court of appeals. He was awarded for his book race, crime and the law and recent books include race, affirmative action and the law, the persistence of the color line, radical politics and the racial politics and the politics of racial be a trail. Abraham lincoln and the antislavery constitution that explores how the party adhered to the strategy founded in the constitution itself. So without more from me we look forward to a wonderful conversation. Thank you so much for that gracious introduction and i would like to get the conversation started. I am delighted to be in conversation with james oakes whose work ive used
Good evening. One of the leading historians his work focused on the self examining economic social system that shaped southern life. His books include the Ruling Class the radical and republican and triumph of antislavery politics and freedom national. They later won the prize and annual award for the scholarly work in english on Abraham Lincoln or the civil War Era and from California Berkeley hes been on the faculty of the university of new York Graduate center since 1997 and the holder of the Graduate School of Humanities Chair since 98. He teaches courses on contracts with criminal law and regulations. He attended princeton university, Oxford University and Yale Law School and served as a Law Clerk for the judge of the united States Court of appeals. He was awarded for his book race, crime and the law and recent books include race, affirmative action and the law, the persistence of the color line, radical politics and the racial politics and the politics of racial be a trail. Abrah
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john roberts will stay with us live with his great coverage from jerusalem. our fox team coverage continues on the ground spanning from southern israel to tel aviv. we ll take you to all of our reporters positioned across the country with live reporting during the course of the story today. we re seeing protests that are erupting across the world in the wake of the horrific blast that reportedly killed hunts at a gaza hospital yesterday afternoon. you saw that live as it unfolded on our air. islamic groups burning an image of the israeli flag in turkey today. here s the chaos at the u.s. embassy in beirut, lebanon. watch this. just feels like the world the erupting in so many places right now. this is the explosion at the hospital in gaza that sparked much of this recent wave of outrage. this video, you can see the blast there. people that look at this video frame by frame, this particular piece of video was shown on al-jazeera. it shows a rocket that takes off from gaza an