Im also delighted to let you know that this program is being filmed by cspan to be aired at a later date. So if you enjoy Tonights Program and would like to see it again or if you think youre friends would like to see it. You should check periodically over the next few weeks to see Hyphen Span Dot org and see if its up some take sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for them to run a show and other times it can be one or two months. So periodically. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker, dr. Lindsey fitzharris. Dr. Fitzgeras tells me that its a little girl. She used to drag her grandmother from cemetery to cemetery so that she could hunt ghosts. Though some thought choose obsessed with with death from an early age. She liked to think she was simply fascinated with the past. And with the people who lived there. Thus began her lifelong obsession with history. Dr. Fitzgeras received a doctorate in the history of Science Medicine and technology from the university of oxford. In 2010. S
Tucker and adrian brettle about the confederacys domestic and international goals. So sur good evening. Everyone. Can everyone hear me . Well. Good. Im mary mclaughlin. Im a Program Coordinator with the smithsonian associates, and id like to welcome you to what promises to be the very perfect halloween evening. On the grizzly world of victorian surgery before we begin and i introduce our speaker. Id like to ask everyone to please check their cell phones and make sure they are silenced. Im also delighted to let you know that this program is being filmed by cspan to be aired at a later date. So if you enjoy Tonights Program and would like to see it again or if you think youre friends would like to see it. You should check periodically over the next few weeks to see Hyphen Span Dot org and see if its up some take sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for them to run a show and other times it can be one or two months. So periodically. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker, dr. Lindsey
the weather is supposed to be nice before it turns over the weekend. mostly sunny and breezy and we find out more in detail about the weather coming up. me, right and garcia anhere we are in the new normalout it i w away for the family for a quick four day trip having a blast. i touched on this last week. flipping on the old pictures of your phone. it seems like a year ago. i m thinking of news events that have been two months ago and it feels like three years ago. i m all about routine and speaking of phones we use them to stay connected and the liver than a half-hour of us. every night we have a standing facetime call and some of us are eating dinner. my sister has a darling baby we love to gush over and these phones are more critical staying together because we can t just drive down and say a quick hello anymore expect when they do th uill keep their distance. we are getting used to this and the wonder social distancing will take a while. i don t think everyone is havi
it is really a great conference, something that really needed to be done in the country. i just said to a couple of people that the best memory is to write it down. and so, this important history, the people on this panel have been writing it down so that it will be preserved, not just for us, but for the next generation and the next generation. one german historian said that history always must be revised. it must always be rewritten, because even we in this generation cannot write the final part of the story. because new resources are coming up, new interpretations, and consequently we must keep working at the same topics and subtopics until we get it, and until we get it right. frederick douglas visited tennessee three times before he died in 1895. he came in 1873, 1882, and in 1892, 3 years before he died. he did not come to memphis in 1892 because of the riots. and massacres that took place. he had visited chattanooga, knoxville, nashville, as he did on his 1882 tour. on
history always must be revised. it must always be rewritten, because even we in this generation cannot write the final part of the story. because new resources are coming up, new interpretations, and consequently we must keep working at the same topics and subtopics until we get it, and till we get it right. frederick douglas visited tennessee three times before he died in 1895. he came in 1873, 1882, and in 1892, 3 years before he died. he did not come to memphis in 1892 because of the riots. and massacres that took place. he visited chattanooga, knoxville, nashville, as he did on his 1882 tour. one of them asked douglas, what must we do after slavery? and better douglas said, frederick douglass said, we must learn or die. that is still true today. we have to learn our history, keep writing and rewriting it until we get it right. and we have to learn what has happened in the past in order to be able to govern ourselves in the present, and to plan for the future. so these t