Browse apparel, books, home decorations and accessories, it is something for every cspan fan and every purchase helps support our nonprofit operations, shop now or anytime at cspanshop. Org. We have the professor of philosophy at Colby College and until she pivoted, most of her scholarship was on the 19th century german philosopher, hegel, she has two books on hegel, tonight she will be speaking on her new book published in the fall of 2022 with many, many, many accolades, i recommend you take a look at them and also take a look at her website to see the many blurbs and meaningful statements that talked about her contribution to scholarship about lydia child. The book, a radical american life, was published in the fall of 2022. There have been a few biographies but none as fresh, now im personalizing, not as fresh as this one to a scholarship of a woman who really should get more attention and who came right here from medford. Tonight we welcome professor lydia mullins. Welcome. [appla
Her scholarship was on the 19th century german philosopher hegel. She has two books on gwf hegel. Tonight shall be speaking on her new book with many, many many accolades. I recommend you take a look at them but also take a a look at r website to see the meaningful statements that talk about her contributions to scholarship. The book was published in the fall off 2022. There been a few biographies but none i know im editorializing. Then as a fresh and timely as this one scholarship of a woman who really should get much more attention and who came here. Tonight we welcome professor lydia mullin, thank you. [applause] thank you so much. Thank you for being here. Thank you especially to tina for that lovely introduction into meg who was one of the people who invited me and help to facilitate all of this. I should say that when i first launched into this project i was such an exciting and new world for me. And when i discovered tina know so much had done so much to honor her legacy here an
So, im busy, but its a fun stuff and i really in deeply satisfied with being able to communicate. Its fascinating stuff out there. I could talk to you for hours, tangents building a robotic bricklaying machine that has been the dream of engineers for pretty much 50 or 60 years. The machine is named sam. You might sit on it jobsite somewhere. It looks like a hotdog cart with a red arm that grabs a brick and put mortar on the, and does it again and again and again. Im going to make you care about bricks. [laughter] thanks so much for talking with us today. [appla [applause] thanks to everyone for coming. We now have our book signing and signing area one. That was fun. [inaudible conversations] when i tune into on the weekends as usual its authors sharing their new releases. Watching the nonfiction authors on booktv is the best television for serious readers. They can have a longer conversation and delve into the subject. Booktv weekends. They bring you author after author after author th
They are run by the help of computers but the basic process is the same. Cspan, created by american Cable Companies and brought to you by of Public Service as your cable or satellite provider. Now its my pleasure to introduce the professor from the university of amherst. He is the author of the counterrevolution of slavery and the co editor of the two valium africanamerican mosaic, a documentary history from the african slave trade to the 21st century. In 2011 she was awarded a medal and is the recipient of numerous fellowships including the National Endowment for the humanities. Boston globe cause calls this a great look at the end of slavery they call it a stunning new history we are so very delighted to have her joining us this evening. Now please join me in welcoming Manisha Sinha [applause]. Thank you for that generous introduction. So as you can probably tell from the size of this book, i have said almost everything i wanted to about abolition. Today i will briefly outline some o
Democratic Party Platform did not support emancipation. This hourlong discussion was part of a symposium on the 1864 election hosted by the Lincoln Group of d. C. Our next speaker is known to many of us. And some of us have the strength to have read one of the two volumes this is the second volume covering the period of todays symposium, of Abraham Lincoln a life by Michael Burlingame who holds the distinguished chair at university of illinois at springfield. His earlier work, the inner world of Abraham Lincoln, is being discussed on saturday mornings monthly by a Book Discussion group that is sponsored by the Lincoln Group of d. C. And we meet at fords theater education center. Michael has done the most Massive Research on Abraham Lincoln of any scholar. He has edited 12 major books that lay out original source material from those who knew lincoln or studied him closely in the early years after lincoln. So, we are very pleased to have, as our final speaker before our panel, professor