Series of hearings on the state of the federal judiciary in the 21st century. This hearing we will investigate ideas for promoting ethics, accountability, and transparency in the federal courts. We focus on these ideas and our first hearing on the judiciary because they flow from two foundational principles of due process. First, that no one can be a judge in his own case. Second, to quote former Supreme Court Justice Felix frankfurter, justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Both rules embody the understanding that the constitutions implicit promise of equal justice under law depends on at least two things that our court must be fair, independent and impartial and that we must also believe that our courts are fair, independent, and impartial. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. It might take a second but we intuitively understand that. It means that as the Supreme Court recently explained, both the appearance and reality of impartial justice are necessary to the pu
Public Program Specialist here where we have been teaching the Lasting Impact and legacy of the great war since 1926. If you would like more information about the museum or memorial visit our website. Now, i would like to introduce you to sites to tonights speaker, the trees donald 10, a professor of history at texas a m Corpus Christi specializing in 19thcentury africanAmerican Military history, the gilded age, world war i, and military history. She works at the intersection of race, gender, military service, and in the Long Civil Rights Movement and is the author of duty beyond the battlefield, africanamerican soldiers, the fight for racial citizenship and manhood 1870 to 1920. And, a voyage through the africanamerican experience. She is the editor of a new book series. The black soldier in war and society new narratives and critical perspectives. With the university of virginia press. Herb current book is that her current book is the history of the armies black chaplains. She is the
Public Program Specialist here where we have been teaching the Lasting Impact and legacy of the great war since 1926. If you would like more information about the museum or memorial visit our website. Now, i would like to introduce you to sites to tonights speaker, the trees donald 10, a professor of history at texas a m Corpus Christi specializing in 19thcentury africanAmerican Military history, the gilded age, world war i, and military history. She works at the intersection of race, gender, military service, and in the Long Civil Rights Movement and is the author of duty beyond the battlefield, africanamerican soldiers, the fight for racial citizenship and manhood 1870 to 1920. And, a voyage through the africanamerican experience. She is the editor of a new book series. The black soldier in war and society new narratives and critical perspectives. With the university of virginia press. Herb current book is that her current book is the history of the armies black chaplains. She is the
Afternoon to introduce to you trevor plant. Trevor is the director of the Textual Records Division at the National Archives building in washington, dc. Ill translate that for you all. Trevor has a very important job in the field of history. Trevor is the friend of every historian. Trevor is a really likable guy. But if you didnt like him and youre a historian, hes still going to be really nice to him because archivist have all the power. Now i got a double whammy there. My wife is an archivist, so i got archivist at home that i have to mind as well as the field as well. The archivist are again are indispensable to what we do in the field of civil war history, in particular. Youd be hard pressed to find a book that doesnt have the imprint of trevor. He knows the collections exceeding only well, and thats whats so crucial. When you work with an archivist, you want someone who can do more than just pull the records off the dusty shelves. Youve got to have somebody who really understands t
My wife is an archivist, so i got archivist at home that i have to mind as well as the field as well. The archivist are again are indispensable to what we do in the field of civil war history, in particular. Youd be hard pressed to find a book that doesnt have the imprint of trevor. He knows the collections exceeding only well, and thats whats so crucial. When you work with an archivist, you want someone who can do more than just pull the records off the dusty shelves. Youve got to have somebody who really understands that and knows something about what youre working on. Theyve got to know the field. And trevor does just that. So he has a very again, valuable, Important Role in the field of civil war history. Hes probably some if you want to see some of his work, you should go to prolog. Prolog is the national archive. Its the blog so you can see some of the stuff that hes done there. I remember years ago that trevor did a piece on civil war desertion. That was fantastic. Trevor also i