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Process. Heres a small portion of it. These videos are just part of the evidence in various Capitol Riot Court cases. So thats the reality, what you are seeing with your own eyes. Now for the unreality several republican lawmakers and rightwing fox hosts are desperate trying to bury what happened on that day, and you heard them already claim the attack was mostly peaceful, and the rioters were not armed or they were not really pro Trump Supporters and a mob. In fact, republican congressman andrew klei thinks what we saw here resembles a normal tourist visit. And now, this is the d. C. Metro officer beaten with a flagpole while defending the capitol that day. I am not here to make this a political issue, it just so happens that one party is lying about what thousands of officers experienced that day on capitol hill. Im going to confront anybody that lies about that day, ....
Process. Heres a small portion of it. These videos are just part of the evidence in various Capitol Riot Court cases. So thats the reality, what you are seeing with your own eyes. Now for the unreality several republican lawmakers and rightwing fox hosts are desperate trying to bury what happened on that day, and you heard them already claim the attack was mostly peaceful, and the rioters were not armed or they were not really pro Trump Supporters and a mob. In fact, republican congressman andrew klei thinks what we saw here resembles a normal tourist visit. And now, this is the d. C. Metro officer beaten with a flagpole while defending the capitol that day. I am not here to make this a political issue, it just so happens that one party is lying about what thousands of officers experienced that day on capitol hill. Im going to confront anybody that lies about that day, ....
Six years. Peter scott, one of the things that john and i have discussed with many of our guests is interpretation on Civil War Battlefield parks. We have also talked about the partnerships with academics and we have seen with many of our guests, including our guest on thursday, nina Silver Silver was one of the first historians that came to the park and had conversations with the park staff about ways to broaden the interpretation of gettysburg and time and time again john and i have noticed that these connections between academics and public historians, you cannot conclude there is this a great gulf between these two sides as i think there once was. I thought we could open by having you reflect upon how battlefield interpretation, how it changed over time during your career and if you wouldnt mind, i would be interested in what you see as opportunities as we look ahea ....
There is no such thing as free labor right . That doesnt make sense. Could you help us understand, what do you mean, what do scholars mean by free labor . Mr. Luskey thanks for having me on. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about this book. It is a question my students, even after having me teach the concept to them, they still have trouble understanding. Free labor ideology came together as a set of ideas, most clearly in the 1850s, around a new political party, the republican party, and what the ideas at the heart of this ideology proposed was that wage labor, as it existed in northern states, was a superior economic and social system to southern slavery. It was a system, in its ideal form, that allowed workers the opportunity to make a contract with the employer of their choice, and to save their earnings to become independent. And this was something that was not available to enslaved people in the southern states. It is art of an attempt to rehabilitate wage labor, which many w ....
A little bit about her publications, which are multiple awardwinning, her most recent book is bound in wedlock slave and free black marriage in the nineteenth century. Published in 2017. A book about African Americans and marriage in the 19th century, a winner of multiple awards. And a variety of other prizes. The list goes on and on. Let me mention her first book about women after the civil war. Another multiple prizewinning book. Dr. Hunter has agreed to come here today and talk with us specifically about the history of emancipation, the end of slavery during the civil war, a topic always on peoples agenda for teaching and discussion but particularly widely discussed earlier this summer the anniversary of juneteenth. That is what got us started thinking about inviting her to speak with us about that history, which is complicated, exciting, and always in need of clarification. Let me turn it over to tera hunter to talk a littl ....