where i had my first job. i was newly married and just out of college and my husband was in the army stationed at fort leonard wood and i lived about 90 miles south of here in waynesville. i inhabited a converted motel room and drove 30 miles to work each day at the rolla daily news. where i wrote where i wrote obituaries and articles for the society page reported on an occasional sports story and even interviewed people who had seen a ufo. i also sold classified ads and my favorite that i remember was this man came in and this is what he gave me said senator cemetery plot for sale owner must move sell it sacrifice. there s another reason i love missouri because it gave america the gift of harry truman who was my first american president. i don t have to tell this audience the truman was both remarkable leader and a remarkable man. nor do i have to tell you about his lifelong affection for this state or his special connection with westminster college. and as you all know it w
questions, colonial williamsburg and monticello. thomas jefferson s monticello recorded this program and provided the video. good afternoon. my name is brandon dillard and i m the manager of historic interpretation here at monticello. you might recognize my voice because in previous live streams i m usually the guy behind the camera and i m reading questions from our audience as they come in so that we can directly engage with you while we re 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 it s racially motivated pol
lived on the opposite side of the river in paulina, louisiana. this structure was donated to us about 10 years ago by the descendants of the original founders of that congregation. they bought the land in 1870. two parcels of land for the express purpose of building a house of worship. in the sale document, which we have from the courthouse, they named their structure the anti- they named their congregation the anti-yoke baptist congregation. that message, being against the yoke or against slavery, is something that s important to our story here. and this is a significant church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river and so it is really important here in talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. so we like to start our tour of the whitney plantation here in this building so we could kind of see what happened to people, some of the things that they cared about after the freedom came. whitney plantation is the only plantat
in so that we can directly engage with you while we re 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 re-opened this weekend, due to a global pandemic. 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 s racially motivated police violence or racially motivated monuments and memories. it s a conversation that we must engage in, and working here at monticello, we are a site of memory. monticello is a plantation where over 400 people were enslaved. today we decided to have a conversation, we would do something that we haven t done and i m sure everyone knows this, that when you tune in you re not actually talkin
impact of the second amendment. host: carol anderson, it is july 3, 2022. what is the july 4, 17 76 celebration mean to you? prof. anderson: it means that we are so precariously pert as this democracy that we are heralding on july 4, 1776. we are in a perilous time, to me, as perilous as it was when the continental army looked like they were getting their butts kicked, as perilous as it looked when the south attacked fort sumter and launched the civil war. we are in perilous times where our democracy is hanging by a thread. host: why do you say that? prof. anderson: we ve got what i call a land, sea, and air attack happening on american democracy. the land attack is the assault on voting rights. the sea attack is the attack to wash away the teaching of real american history. and the air attack is the loosening of gun laws while having a narrative that the insurrection was legitimate political discourse. and well seeing that there was all of this violence and threats raining d