Her new book. Jonesrogers uses an impressive assortment of records to piece together the stories of the slave holders and the enslaved. Histories of. Legal documents, court records, and more. Two weeks ago here we displayed the dc immans pax act. Among the records generated youll find several references to women owners. They sought compensation with freed slaved. They claimed in a a gift from her sister was only 1500. They said it had is a corrective that examines how historians have misunderstood and misrepresented white women. And they say there is an analysis of american slavery. One that is a new standard on the subject. She is an associate proefrs where she specializes in africanAmerican History, womens and gender history, and the history of american slavery. The prize for the best doctoral dissertation in 2013. Thank you so much for that invitation thank you all for coming this afternoon and spending your lunchtime with me. It is truly a pleasure to be with you here today. This i
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It is not funny. What do you do with that . Joel first of all, i think cartoonists made the same mistake. We are not prognosticators. To think he was a buffoon, thinking he would be next gone and next week or next fall. Okay, in four years. [laughter] it is tempting in a situation like this to draw on the everyday because it is so easy and he is so out there, and the rest of the media concentrates on him so much. And it is fun, and people like it. But, and this is my experience with political campaigns in general over 30 years. Day to day, it seems timely and great and perfect for today, but you get to the end of the year and you realize the 240 pieces ou john, you have drawn, if everybody on the field does that that day, your whole body of work is not that great. You get to the end of the year and realize you did not draw anything about world population, not educating girls, polluting the oceans, or whatever your favorite topics are. It can be a distraction. How many people here like
Republican. Caller good morning. Iwould like to say to scott, am a donald trump supporter, and thereason i am is because 35 tax on corporations. I had a business under jimmy carter. About four years later, Ronald Reagan came in. What a difference. It is night and day. When anybody talks about lowering the Corporate Tax and working the rules, and on the trade issue is such a big deal. I think donald trump has his hand on it. Host do you like what donald trump says on trade . Caller i do guest i think it is a great point. I wish that donald trump focus more on our top tax and regular for a policies and less on china. I wrote a piece late last year about the fact that Donald Trumps misguided focus on china a lotxico papers over real problems we have in the American Economy, whether it be our high Corporate Tax rate or policies that discourage workers from saving and investing in their own future. Or our job Training Programs that have failed and are crowded crowding out private Training P