For the past year at the library of congress, you may sit down, because i have a few more namesv for the past year at the library of congress we have been celebrating changemakers and i can think of a few people who more than aptly fit that discretion then the United States up in Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [cheering and applause] okay, im going to hurry up. [laughter] she is a hero and an inspiration to so many of us. In fact, at 4 00 a. M. This morning students from American University who are right over there champion camped out in front of this facility and they are here. She says and i [inaudible] i will talk about your graduation from Columbia Law School and taught at rutgers and spent most of your career advocating on womens rights and all these things and you have been called recently the beyonce of jurisprudence. [laughter] and the justice, could i say dhat and she said i would rather you say that j lo. [laughter] [cheering and applause] without further ado, she is join
Imi think of what talking about jen wittenberg. He would find someone to volunteer for a project. Busy people get things done and it. New we were in forc mostwhite has to be the prolific young professor. Won the outstanding faculty award for virginia. He is an active public speaker and a parent of young children. I dont know where john finds the time. Generousn very with our Education Programs to which we are grateful. As you can see from your printed programs, the topics of his varied with a and focus on Abraham Lincoln and legal and constitutional history. He is the coauthor of a book thetled civil education in future of american citizenship. Because he had a few extra minutes, he and ann holloway wrote our monitor. I asked him to speak on a topic i did not put on the printer program. A topic that draws from two other book manuscripts he is currently finishing about Abraham Lincoln and africanamericans. Ladies and gentlemen, jonathan white. [applause] jonathan thank you, john, the in
Symposium held at the library of virginia in richmond. Our next speaker is john white. John white is an associate professor of american studies at Christopher New Port University in new port news. When i look at johns vida, his academic resume i think of an old graduate School Adviser and im talking about you, jim wittenberg, would say to us when he would come to our offices to find someone to volunteer for a project. Busy people get things done, and we knew we were in for it when dr. Wittenberg talked about that. Jonathan white has to be the busiest young scholar in the field today. Hes not only a prolific hiftor yap, but more projects on more backburners than ive ever seen on the stove award. He won the outstanding faculty award for academic education. Hes a parent of young children, i dont know where john finds the time. Hes been very generous with what remaining time he has from all of that for this museum and our Education Programs for which were all very grateful. As you can see
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Our final speaker of the day is mr. Michael bishop, michael is a consultant of the office of the chairman of the National Endowment of the humanities. Prior to that he served as director of the National Churchill library and center at George Washington university in d. C. He also served as the executive director, of the interNational Churchill society. Some of you, many of you know that the museum is a long standing relationship with the local branch of the Churchill Society. The Churchill Society of new orleans. Im with him being half american, we feel that we can keep covering winston as much as we want. But we certainly enjoyed watching michael, and his affiliates to great work around the country, michael was in charge of putting their 34th and 35th churchill conference together, and we are not quite caught up to that with our International Conferences but being involved in the conferences i know how much of a beast that is. Who here has seen the finest hour . Im sorry the darkest h