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Votes of black people, brown people, older people, younger people, the people who tend not to vote for the same persuasion as those who pass those laws. So history is never over. Every time we think we have turned a great corner in race and race relations, which we did in the reelection of barack obama and president obama every time there is a revolution there is a counterrevolution and the resistive to president obama for better or worse in whatever side of that issue people might the on is a k...

They held a mock symbolic burial of a former slave woman named Hannah Reynolds who was killed here on the morning of april 9. No one ever knew where she was buried. They do her name and who her master was, her owner and the Africanamerican Community of appomattox county got together with the National Parks service and planned for months this amazing performance that was a living history burial, a funeral for Hannah Reynolds. The choirs were terrific. They same they sang spirituals. Without any a...

Harriet. But there are others. Many more xes than pictures. This is lucy delaney who signed an x which you as a child and live to write about it after the civil war. Swansee adams, one of the duncan slaves, which is one of my favorite stories because it is a story in which there is a superb victory for all of the duncan slaves over all of their duncan masters. But behind each of these stories is a family or an individual and, altogether, many of these freedom suits were family affairs. Whether t...

They were bought souls sent and inherited, but they themselves did not buy, sell, contract and inherent. Slaves inhabit their masters agenda. They lived through their masters agendas and lives during a time of their enslavement. The subject and subjective quality of their lives is overtaken by their existence as such, slaves are often on notice. It is hard to find details about their lives. They are described in the passive voice as having the characteristics of object. There are many lawsuits t...

Sometimes, you dont have to have any more explanation for the friends around you then maybe the one you just gave. For one thing, the civil war lets face it it causes, the war itself and its consequences, its an epic. It is a tremendous epic, if by epic we mean, a great story. It has heroes and villains. It has causes. It has results. Tell your friends when they look at you like some weird eccentric. Tell them you have one of the few republics in the world, and 80some years in its history, it te...

Bringing it out now, other than the physical things how do you maintain the mental sort of mindset of being in 1865 . Tyler especially if im answering the questions of people im not doing whats called first person. Im not pretending like im in 1865. Its a lot easier to relate to people if youre not attending like what is this microphone . Its a lot easier to answer questions. But while were in the field one of the things that keeps you sane is to remember that it was done in the past and if that...

Contributions to and influence over her famed family dynasty. This program is about an hour. Host Barbara Perry its good to be here with you talking about the kennedys. But that is having grown up catholic i think the kennedys have the particular resonance for us but i wanted to start right off in ask you, youre a Supreme Court president ial scholar. How did you get interested in rose . Guest ive been interested in the Kennedy Family since i was a little tyke read when i was four years old my mo...

You on my ongoing war with amazon. Last week i broke the story of something about me. You see, amazon is in heated contract negotiations with my publisher hachette. Theyre delaying shipment of amazons most popular author, including me. [audience booing] oh, dont make me unleash these dosmtion folks, this is terrible. I am one of my favorite authors. Its not just me. Because of amazons scorchedearth tactics, more people are getting screwed than in fifty shades of grey. So i told amazon c. E. O. J...

Weekend we are expecting a dramatic cool down. More on that to come and are for look at the forecast. At center. And james is looking at the commute. In this report to reach even north of more land. In terror of a line to see if peace is reported an accident that is saved several vehicles as many as four may be involved in this crash and their concern is that it is blocking both of the southbound lanes and highway 1013 it is our first report to reach will be getting more details. This could be o...

A [theme music playing] [cheering and applause] a. Stephen welcome to the report. Thank you so much for joining us. What are we doing . [audience chanting stephen] [cheering and applause] welcome to the report. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for joining us, ladies and gentlemen. What an evening. Now, folks. Folks, i got to thank you for being here. Its been great show so far, but before we go, i want to update you on my ongoing war with amazon. Last week i broke the story of something abou...