The Supreme Court. It has been a highly successful series up until now. We expect to finish it this evening in a blaze of glory. So we are looking forward. I want to especially thank Justice Kagan for hosting us this evening. Without the support of the justices about report, we would be unable to host these events in such a gust surroundings. Because the justice has another event immediately after this one, i will give a brief or introduction then she deserves. But she has to make her way to a second event. Justice kagan has an enviable resume. You will hear a little bit about it now. She received her a b summa cum laude from princeton university. She then attended Worcester College at oxford as princeton s daniel em sex graduating fellow. She received a masters of philosophy there. She then earned aj d. From harvard law school, graduating magnet come allowed a, where she was supervising editor of the harvard law review. A Job Description that i assume she means they did the really har
Assassination attack that left him seriously wounded. Exploring the american story. Watch American History tv. This weekend on cspan three. Let us go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically in visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. We are about two thirds of the way through our 12 week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights 1954 case of school segregation. Brown v. Board of education. We are going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950. In the quiet kansas town of topeka, where a mild mannered black man took his sevenyearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly, four blocks from their home, to the all white school and tried without success, to enroll his child. Black parents into peak felt that the day of trying to enroll their sch
This is about an hour. Okay. Its 11 00. I think we know you are excited to be here and to hear Adam Hochschild tell us about the legacy of the First World War today. Thank you for being with us over these past three days. Its been very exciting for us to see how excited and engaged history educators are. Thank you so much for that. If i didnt say it, im grace leatherman. We are loving doing this online conference with you. Its a pleasure to be with you, because really there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with than teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life from high school, from college and also people who are involved in teaching public history by working in museums, historical sites and so forth. All that has had a huge influence on my life. I dont think i would be writing History Today were it not for two very good history teachers that i had when i was in high school. Let me tell you a little bit about how i came to the subject t
Conference with you. It is a pleasure to be with you because really, there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with then teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life. From high school, from college, and also people who are involved in teaching public history by working and museums and historical sites and so forth. All of them has had a huge influence on my life. I do not think i would be writing History Today were it not for two very good history teachers that i had in high school. Let me tell you a little bit about how i came to the subject that im going to talk about today. I have for a long time, as long as i can remember, been obsessed with the First World War. I had relatives on both sides of my family who fought in it in several different armies. It always has sort of seemed to me, i think the historian simon put it best, when he described the First World War as the original sin of the 20th century. So much of what has afflicted us i
It has been a exciting for us to see how engaged history educators are even when they cant either. Im grace leatherman, executive director of the National Council for history education. We are loving doing this online conference with you. Mr. Hochschild it is a pleasure to be with you because there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with ben teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life from high school, from college, and also people who are involved in teaching public history by working in museums and historical sites. All of that has had a huge influence on my life. I dont think i would be writing History Today were it not for two very good history teachers i had when i was in high school. Let me tell you a little bit about how i came to the subject that im going to talk about today. I have, for a long time, as long as long as i can remember, been obsessed with the First World War. I had relatives on both sides of my family who fought in