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Okay. So i think were ready to get started. Sorry for the delay. But welcome to the first meeting. Our session is called historians in court, examines the complex role of historians applying their scholarly skills to courtroom litigation. Thanks first to the oah for organizing this session and in particular to the president , nancy cott, for her support of our endeavor here today. Today we will address a timely topic, the participation of historians in courtroom proceedings. There is no systemic...

Okay. So i think were ready to get started. Sorry for the delay. But welcome to the first meeting. Our session is called historians in court, examines the complex role of historians applying their scholarly skills to courtroom litigation. Thanks first to the oah for organizing this session and in particular to the president , nancy cott, for her support of our endeavor here today. Today we will address a timely topic, the participation of historians in courtroom proceedings. There is no systemic...

Okay. So i think were ready to get started. Sorry for the delay. But welcome to the first meeting. Our session is called historians in court, examines the complex role of historians applying their scholarly skills to courtroom litigation. Thanks first to the oah for organizing this session and in particular to the president , nancy cott, for her support of our endeavor here today. Today we will address a timely topic, the participation of historians in courtroom proceedings. There is no systemic...

Okay. So i think were ready to get started. Sorry for the delay. But welcome to the first meeting. Our session is called historians in court, examines the complex role of historians applying their scholarly skills to courtroom litigation. Thanks first to the oah for organizing this session and in particular to the president , nancy cott, for her support of our endeavor here today. Today we will address a timely topic, the participation of historians in courtroom proceedings. There is no systemic...

An event he was in many ways unprepared for. He wandered down to richmond, virginias slave auction rooms, and there beheld an auction of humans for the first time, and he became captivated by this subject and painted a number of images and published a number of drawings in the illustrated london news in order to help raise awareness about american slavery. Host was he an abolitionist . Guest i suspect when he first came to america he was aware of the Antislavery Movement and would have described...

stem the exit of teachers from the classroom. >> its a huge problem. i mean we lose 50% of all new teachers in the first three to five years. >> brown: and we close with some historical perspectives on last weeks extraordinary and landmark decisions at the supreme court. >> a historian 50 years from now-- i think it would be very hard for them to write about this period without writing about what happened last week-- three cases particularly that do have threads that run all the way th...

supreme court. >> a historian 50 years from now-- i think it would be very hard for them to write about this period without writing about what happened last week-- three cases particularly that do have threads that run all the way through american history. >> brown: thats all ahead on tonights "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supp...

weeks extraordinary and landmark decisions at the supreme court. >> a historian 50 years from now-- i think it would be very hard for them to write about this period without writing about what happened last week-- three cases particularly that do have threads that run all the way through american history. >> brown: thats all ahead on tonights "newshour." >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects ...

was said to have said get down, you fool, meaning get down before you get shot. i doubt that that happened, but there are people that said that that is what oliver wendell holmes said, but this is the only time that a president of the united states has actually been under fire while president of the united states, so abraham lincoln here, standing on the parapet looking out to see where the enemy troops actually were. >> you can watch this and other american artifacts programs site, c-...