Together the stories of the slave holders and the enslaved. Histories of enslaved people, advertisements, sales records, legal documents, Court Records and more. Two weeks ago here at the national a archives we displayed the d. C. Emancipation act, which ended slavery in the district of columbia in 1862. Ringgold claim iing harry goodm, a gift from her sister, was worth 50. They were her property received a number of reviews, stunning new book. The New York Times said it is a taught and coached and corrected that examine house historians have misunderstood and misrepresented white women as reluctant actors. And in the Washington Post elizabeth barren writes jonesrogers has provided an insight into slavery. Stephanie jonesrogers is an associate professor of history at the university of california, berkeley, where she specializes in africanAmerican History, womens and general history. They were her property is based on her revised dissertation. Lerner scott prize in u. S. Womens history
Dr. Gregory d. Smithers, an associate professor of history at virginia commonwealth university, specializes in native American History. Else the author of several books including an indigenous history of migration, resettlement and identity about which greg spoke here a few years ago. And his newest book and the subject of todays lecture native southerners indigenous history from origins of removal. Please give a warm welcome to our guest speaker, greg smithers. [ applause ] let me first begin by acknowledging the traditional landowners of this region, members of the powatan chiefdom and the chickahawpee people. Thank you to those who organized this. Its much appreciated and its lovely to be back here at the Virginia Museum of history and culture. I hope i got that right. Im going to begin today by talking just a little bit about the artwork on the cover of my new book. This is a piece by chief terry saul. Hes was hes passed, now hes walked on. Chief terry saul was chickasaw and chokta
President ial libraries are living institutions certainly it is my hope the Reagan Library will become a dynamic intellectual for him where policymakers debate the future. Now bringing events online to ensure we are still delivering worldclass content even if you cant watch it in person. This week we bring you a small us anchor Fox News Sunday and in the 50th year the broadcasting industry participating in coverage of nearly every Major Political event in securing high profile interviews of dignitaries and leaders broadcasting the sunday morning show live from the Reagan Library Chris Wallace is with us today to speak about his new book and unforgettable account of the lives of the ordinary americans and with those soldiers fighting in the pacific to launch a possible invasion in japan and the story how 116 days going from the Vice President completely cut out of the fdr white house to suddenly become the president also best date on of the play coronavirus. Coming from air force one an
Chris wallace, inker of fox news sunday. 2014 marked his 50th year in the broadcast industry. He has participated in coverage of nearly every Major Political event and secured high profile interviews of dignitaries and leaders. He has broadcast the sunday morning show every sunday. Chris wallace is with us today to speak about his new book count town in 1945 countdown 1945 that recounts the lives of ordinary americans in japanese during the wartime and the americans and the pacific to launch a possible invasion of japan. A story how in 116 days truman goes to the Vice President to be completely cut out of the fdr white house to suddenly become the president. The story of the flight crew and others we invite you to join our view on Virtual Program with Chris Wallace and Reagan Foundation Institute Executive director. Chris wallace, congratulations. What a terrific book. As you may know guess come through the Reagan Library this is a terrific book and a historical thriller. I just loved
Landmark cases. Cspans special history series produced in cooperation with the National Constitution center. Exploring the human stories and constitutional dram as behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. As behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, earnest miranda Petitioner Versus arizona. We hear arguments from number 18, roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 Million People who helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspans history series landmark cases. Tonight is number 10 in our 12part series and you will hear about the 1962 tennessee reapportionment case and it was one that earl warren called the most important of his tenure and remember this is the court that wrote brown versus the board of education and well learn