Joining us my name is gavin and the director of programs exhibitions and partnerships for the National Historic society. I would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who might be attending a Virtual Program for the first time. Considering the size of our virtual crowd in the geographic diversity of the people who signed up, im sure there are some people who are in for the first time. If youre not familiar with nhs we are the oldest Historical Society in america. Founded in 1791 and have been an independent Nonprofit Institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our nation and States History the past 229 years. In these days of social distancing we are taking to hosting Virtual Events we have Online Events for every week through july. Next week we will be hosting a virtual tour the tour is titled misled and a look at historic a a these include mimic houses suspicious ain a marker that denotes the side of the famous vikings bar if youd like to join the tou
Additional funding is provided by. By. Rate funding is provided welcome back to firing line, dr. Cornel west and dr. Robert george. I am honored, because you e both celebrated scholars and public intellectuals who comefr remarkably different world views and profess different perspectes. Dr. West, you are a professed nonmarxist socialist. And, dr. George, you are a leader in the theoconservative movement. Im not sure id y that, but at least im not a marxist. E im ornel in that respect. [ laughter ] and were both christians. Were both christians. Youre both christians. Yo anrespect each other enough to disagree and to engagn serious and rigorous contest of ideas in a civil and respectful way. Te yoh a course at Princeton University and you also have in common that you were bh guests on the original firing line with william f. Buckley jr. Mmhmm. Its a ve great honor. Very great honor. Theres a clear affection between the two of you, which hes soovable. We cant help it. [ laughter ] in ct,
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[inaudible conversations] thank you all for joining us this evening. Im gavin kleespies, director of programs and communications for the massachusetts historical society. Tonight on the very eve of the 250 anniversary of the boston massacre we will hear from professor serena zabin on a great new book the boston massacre a Family History. As a regular guests know, we very quickly pull together small exhibition from our collection that highlights the materials we have within our holdings that illuminate the evenings discussion. To date we entire expedition, so we didnt need a small exhibition this time. Our exhibition features our speaker this evening so if you didnt see it shes on one of the video monitors upstairs and was also very generous with her time helping us planned exhibition and sitting for an interview. We couldnt have done our current exhibition without her help so our debt of gratitude. Serena zabin is a professor Early American History director the programs american studie
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