This evening performance and talkback of meet james for an exciting original play commissioned from playwright mercer kennedy by the museum Khalil Williams who im joined by is the founder of black history maven a longtime collaborate with the museum in our living history projects our diversify Living History Initiative and after the performance, im gonna vacate my seat give it up to mike idris, who is the museums africanamerican interpretive fellow lifelong, philadelphia, and who was really the the brains behind this incredible play. Theyre gonna see the historical advisor on this piece written by marissa kennedy, which youll see performed by Nathan Alfred tate. Were really excited to be doing a lot with james horton story. Not just right now when you can visit this cool painting daily here more about later, but also in the future weve got exciting programming and exhibitions about the fort and family coming up, but i dont want to steal any of that thunder. Im gonna let you ask questio
Hosted this event. Its about an hour. Good evening, everyone. Welcome to New York Historical society. Im vicepresident for public programs. Im thrilled to welcome you to our spectacular robert h. Smith auditorium. Tonights program, the battle for new york, rallying and rioting, is part of the distinguished Speaker Series which is the heart of our public programs. We always want to thank mr. Schwartz for his support which enabled us to invite so many authors and historians. He would like to thank all the Council Members for all their great work and support. Lets give them all a hand. [ applause ] the program will last an hour and include a question and answer session. The q a will be conducted on note cards. You should have received a note card and pencil as you were entering. We will have our Staff Members circulating through. Just raise your hand if you want a card. They will be collecting them a little later in the program. There will be a normal book signing with our speakers. Copie
As you probably know harriet , tubmans face is due to grace the front of the 20 bill soon. Our speaker, Catherine Clinton, [applause] Catherine Clinton is one of the people that helped to put her there. In fact, her biography of Harriet Tubman was praised as a revelation. Not bad. Harriet tubman is an appropriate subject for her. I will tell you a little bit about catherine. She has been in perpetual motion almost are whole life as well. She grew up in kansas city, missouri. She received her undergraduate from harvard university. She specializes in American History with an emphasis on the American South and the civil war as well as american women and , african American History. She has held academic positions at countless institutions. She has been at the university of richmond, the citadel, the current chair of history at university of texas at san antonio. She served as a consulting scholar on a number of documentaries and feature films, including Steven Spielbergs lincoln. Pretty ne
[applause] good evening. Thanks for coming on on what was a nice day today. Welcome to the lecture on Harriet Tubman. You probably know we are in a Harriet Tubman revival right now. A new appreciation of an iconic figure. It is a name we relate with the underground railroad. We sort of forget that after the underground railroad, Harriet Tubman lived for another 50 years. Some remarkable 50 years after the civil war. Tonights speaker is here to bring us up to speed and uptodate on that in our lecture. [applause] as you probably know, Harriet Tubmans face is due to grace the front of the 20 bill soon. Our speaker, Catherine Clinton, [applause] Catherine Clinton is one of the people that helped to put her there. In fact, her biography of Harriet Tubman was praised as a revelation. Not bad. Harriet tubman is probably an appropriate subject for her. I will tell you a little bit about catherine. She has been in perpetual motion almost her entire life as well. She grew up in kansas city, miss
Figure, Harriet Tubman. Its a name we know, its a name we affiliate with the underground railroad, but we sort of forget after that she lived another 50 years, some remarkable 50 years after the civil war. Tonights speaker is here to bring us up to speed and date on that in a lecture thats sponsored by sa dechlio, so well thank them for that tonight. As you probably know, Harriet Tubmans face is due to grace the front of the 20 bill very soon and our speaker Catherine Clinton [ applause ] and our speaker Catherine Clinton is one of the people that helped to put her there. In fact, her biography of Harriet Tubman was praised a revelation. Not bad. Harriet tubman is probably an appropriate subject for her because im going to tell awe little bit about catherine and shes been in perpetual motion her entire life as well. She grew up in kansas city, missouri, and sefd her undergraduate from Harvard University followed by a ph. D from prince ton, university. She specialized in American Histor