Peter i am going to go ahead and turn it over to john. I want to start with something i read in the introduction. Just absolutely fascinated by. And it is about your father. It is really a lovely story. Irwin silber. Book, published a songs of the civil war. He was not like a diehard civil war buff. He was not that kind nina he did like to sing the songs. Peter i have a question about your father. This is what you wrote. This book is not about my father civil war. It is partly about the people who created the civil war my father came to love as well as those who created the kind of civil war that he despised. So tell us, what did you mean by that . How can that help us sort of frame your book . Then we will turn it over to john. Nina so i think come in terms of the kind of the civil war that he came to love, i guess i would say that was the civil war i am going to say it was the civil war created by the popular front. By that, i mean this sort of loose coalition of civil rights organiz
At the kennedy institute, we are committed to engaging the public in a conversation about the role each one of us plays in our democracy and in our society. We do that through Civic Education programs that bring the United States senate to life and conversations like tonight that bring American History into focus. We are very proud to partner with the Massachusetts Historical Society on todays program. They are an invaluable resource for american life, history, and culture. All of us at the institute are also proud together together a group of panelists for the program, including our moderator, fred tice. He covers news related to politics and Higher Education at wbur where he has been since 1988 serving as a trusted source of truth and information. He previously was the nbc news bureau chief in mexico city and the south america reporter for cbs news based in argentina. Joining fred on the panel are four scholars who provide erspective on, and knowledge of, our nations founders. Togeth
Shames. He was born in 1922. He served in the 506th. Tables whichsand were used to train for the air drop into normandy. He made his jump into normandy on dday as part of operation overload. Noncommissioned officer in his battalion to receive the Battlefield Commission in normandy. Command,ansferred to third platoon of easy company, later known as the famed band of brothers which he led until the end of the war, including the battle of the bulge. At the battle of the bulge, he went along with another soldier and took out a german tank with a bazooka. Band of brothers he was played by joseph may. Theitnessed the evils of concentration camps, where the germans imprisoned the jewish people. He is a hero and a liberator. Emmanuel manny mandel sits in the middle. He was born in may of 1936 on trumans birthday in latvia. Father tookrth, his he was actually born on my fathers birthday, in budapest, where my grandmother shortly after his birth, his father took a position as one of four chief c
That southern white women would or would not have supported a confederacy. Her talk is about one hour and 15 minutes. Prof. Silber we started talking about the beginning of the movement of womens right. Saying,men, as i was were usually on the margins, i would say, of the womens writes movements. We talked about search on her truth, andjourner Harriet Jacobs also had contact with a number of womens writes activists, rights but she was also very critical of white suffragists and often made the point that they did not fully recognize the way that race had created, you know, kind of a distinct set of obstacles for black women. I think somebody in our debate made exactly that point in our discussion. So we are to talk about that in a couple of weeks. About jacob to talk herself, the narrative she composed, and i think as you know, she wrote about narrative under the name of linda brent. Also changed the name of a number of people in that account. She was born it not as linda in 1814, herja
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