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Before we get to todays program i will know about you other progress we february 16 at noon professor chris myers will be here to talk about their book, history of race and democracy in the Nations Capital. It is a tumultuous four century story of race and democracy in washington dc. A city that has often served as national datagram for contentious issues. Including slavery, segregation, civil rights and the drug war. After two year absence from public view Abraham Lincoln is original emancipati...

Part of their great lives lecture series. [applause] [clears throat] wow. It is perhaps appropriate that on Thomas Jeffersons birthday, we bring to you one of our most prestigious speakers. One of jeffersons cleverest biographers. Professor Annette Gordon reed is the one who definitively cracked the case, as our speaker on tuesday might have said, on one of American Historys most complex and now expunged until now, expunged stories, which is the relationship between the jeffersons and the hemmin...