Sorry to say, with cspan, what you are do we take you live that at the lgbtq vtory institute is honoring nancy pelosi as part of anvent marking the tenth anniversary of the repeal of the dont ask, dont tell law. Also want to take a moment to thank coach price price winr blues and devoted member of this Community Also differentnd lets face it bestdressed man and ten, Jonathan Capehart for taking theime to moderate todays very impornt conversation we are so grateful to Jennifer Pritzker, founder of the 20 foundation of saud and chairwoman of the Pritzker Military museum and library for serving a executive sponsor of todays Historic Panel issued international lgbtq leadership council. She regrets she could be with us today and absent im honor to share her followinghoughts on the importance of this topic. Todays panel [inaudible] thank you for jning us for the 2020 international ltq leaders conference. Close caption is a fatal b clicking the letter cc in the toolbar below the webcast windo
Why did you write this book . That it had never been really told before between the covers of a book. I mean its been told orally and in conversations, but so in 2005, i went to two places. I went to the Eisenhower Library, did a lot of research there in the st. Abilene, kansas. And i went to the Pritzker Military library in chicago which is probably the best military library in the country. There may be one better, but it is extra ordinary and started working on this book, i started developing it. And i wrote four other books in between including words from the white house. Those were to sort of to keep bread on the table so to speak. I just became haunted by this story and trying to get deeper and deeper into it and discover who the people were, who really saved the country. For me it was a revelatory moment because id go to libraries and places and book sales and trying to look up some of the things i write about in this book like the louisiana maneuvers for example and found almost
To the streets of old city philadelphia and imagine what life was like under british rule. One of the big agendas of the event is to present the fall of 1777 in a complicated way to show that for many of the people that remained in the city that winter this was an occupation and maybe a liberation from many of their perspectives and they wrote about in the period being liberated from the ash trar congress which is maybe something we can all aspire to some day. So we do this with living history programming in part because people come to museums to learn in all different ways to encounter the real things of history to have a Human Experience to connect with it and one way we bring it to life is with living history programming with the new Theatrical Program where richard storms into the room with guns blazing and the spoilers at the end of his life, but he maybe doesnt know that yet. We also do the larger living history events and its a pleasure to introduce these set of speakers because
Ii. And professor urwin is a long time friend of this museum project. It is one of the great advantages of being in philadelphia, that we can be close neighbors to professor urwin, whose work on the british army in the American Revolution is extensive, and nuanced, and is always inspiring of our exhibits, and publications, and the development of our core exhibition, professor urwin played a crucial role in the display of the story of enslaved runaways, weighing the promise of the phillipsburg proclamation, announced by general clinton in 1779, which offered somewhat vaguely protection and perhaps freedom of run aways who made their way through to the british lines through consultation with a number of historians, particularly of africanAmerican History in this period, it became a really an imperative that we do two very challenging, often seemingly contradictory things with our tableau in showing people facing this question of whether to trust the british on this promise. And one was t
Phil graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in history from Wheeling Jesuit University and great degree in American History from george mason university. He is currently a supervisory park ranger with the National Park service in florida. You can ask him about fun snakes he might have seen recently. With that, lets learn why someone would want to burn down boston. So, yeah, im a park ranger in the everglades. So i do not bring any snakes. Everyone can stay in the first or second rows. I know that was a big concern by rob and liz. But todays talk is centered on something further north. And being a Baltimore Orioles fan, there is multiple reasons why i want to see boston burn, especially fenway. Today is the road to revolution. And boston epicenter of that early colonial opposition to the parliament, to the british, to being in existence. I figure i would summit up in three dates, march 5th, 1770, april 17th, 1775. So thanks for coming. Well take questions. Theyre all important dates t