And he manuscripts for us. What do you think? i can remember the first. Boy, i think that it would have been it might have been. An alexander hamilton stevens letter that i a collection i was looking at. In the 1970s when i was working on my dissertation topic that i never finished and i went to the manhattanville college of the sacred heart. In in new york, which had a collection of alexander h stevens papers for some reason and that i think that was my first researching stop and that was probably the first thing that i looked at. About first civil war. First civil war boy stuff i i looked at some miscellaneous letters that people had at the university of texas in austin, my major professor barnsley author had a few examples of primary documents. Those would have been the very first ones the first serious ones the first time i really immersed myself in civil war manuscripts with this southern historical collection. In chapel hill in 1980 when you re working on ramster when i was worki
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rosen and john limbert were called the siege as well as their captivity and discuss the impact the crisis had on future us relations with iran. they re joined by gary sick former national security council staff member during the ford carter and reagan administration s the state university of new york maritime college hosted this event. they provided the video. i really can t prepare you for the treat that you ll have today amazing experience. i promise by speaking to three individuals. and hearing from three individuals who are literally witnesses to history and and will tell you that we study history, but what an opportunity to hear from the participants the people involved in this and i m just going to say a few words about them and then i m going to turn it over to our distinguished panel not to take too much time away from their remarks and their their presentation. we re honored to have gary sick as are one of our speakers and gary served on the national security council
lost. without further ado, please welcome howard ruffner. first of, all it s great to see a familiar face. lots of people from pasadena village, relatives, my daughter and his parents are there from where i live. i d like to thank my wife from being here. as most of us know, your spouse is the one who picks up, and kept me organized, kept me going and make sure i did not lose too much of the focus i was going for this. so let me get started. the intention of my book is to let you know more about me from the beginning. before i intended, and the rest of my story starts with when i enrolled in 1969. i ll give you a glimpse of the campus life i know. the rest of it is about my photography fee, and through may want to may 4th. that s me in my photos staying next to my mom, looking up at my newest brother. the cleveland press back in those face thought the family thought it would be a good human interest, so the song was sing a song of sixpence. they ve done a photographer t
history university of massachusetts at amherst, or should he sits scorches at ability history, slavery, emancipation, and native american history. first book, which i have four in front of me, her book entitled black slaves, indian masters, slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the american south. it s quite a title. published by the university of north carolina press. this book details the untold story of the enslavement barbara has also co-authored a photographic history of slavery, emancipation and freedom published in 2013, published by temple university press, and it is also for sale in our bookstore. tonight, she will be speaking about her recent work and the top is entitled envisioning emancipation, black americans and the end of slavery. please welcome barbara. (applause) well, hello, good evening. thank you for saying this late into the night. thank you for saying awake. thank you, peter, for the invitation and the introduction, and allison, who has made sure