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Tonight at eight eastern on cspan. [indiscernible] good evening everyone and welcome to the New York Historical society. I am thrilled to welcome all of you to our beautiful auditorium. This Evenings Program is presented in conjunction with our new exhibition revolution to independence which will be on view in our galleries through march 11. I know that some of you have already you enjoyed a preview this evening. We invite you to join us as our guest following the program upstairs exhibition vie...

Mapping americas road from revolution to independence which will be on view in our galleries through march 11th. I know that some of you have alreadyy enjoyed exhibition preview this evening for those of you we have not, we invite you to join you as our guest following our program on second floor where exhibition viewing will continue along with open bar. That should be pretty good enticement. Some of us, anyway. Tonights program revolution song, a story of American Freedom is part of distinguis...

Expedition which will be on view in our gallery through march 11. I know some of you have already enjoyed an expedition preview this evening. For those of you have not, we invite you to join us as our guest followingit the program upstairs on our second floor were expedition doing will continue along with an open bar. That should be pretty good enticement to some of us anyway. Ten Nights Program revolution song is a part of our distinguished Speaker Series which is the heart of our public i like...

[applause] good evening everyone. My name [applause] good evening, thank you. Thank you. I have the tremendous pleasure serving as executive director of seattle arts and lectures im thrilled to welcome you to our 30th Anniversary Season and evening with isabellda thanks to brick mayer for making it for us we literally would not be here without you. And were so grateful for all of you who have been part of our 30year journey of reading and writing and listening and conversation. To let you know h...

I dont want to slow us down, but i do want make sure that all of you know a little bit about where you are today. Can i just get a sense of how many of you are at Brooklyn Historical society for the first time . Wow. Fantastic. Welcome. Welcome to all of our full timers as well. A few of our Board Members are in the audience so we are delighted by that as well. For those of you who have never been here before, i want to give you a sense of this institution which has been around for very long tim...

Richard hansen look at federal Voting Rights cases for the past 50 years and talk about how gerrymandering constitute modern forms of voter suppression. This was part of a symposium tled and franchising enfranchasing. It is 1. 5 hours. From lunch. Ack m a our first speaker is william kunz. He was nominated to the federal bench in march 2011 by president barack obama and unanimously confirmed by the United States 3, 2011. October kirsch ized in commercial and labor litigation. He served as the as...

, the lincolnncoln who appealed to the better angels of our nature. , at same lincoln had taken that time, a firm stance against the expansion of slavery into the American West and was making plans against fort sumter. He was not compromising. Weve come here today and tomorrow to figure out compromise that could have saved the civil war from happening. Or not. To decide whether loyalty to state is more important to loyalty to country or not. One of the many reporters a lot of us have been talkin...

Center is thecy museum and Education Center currently under development at the department of state. ,t will be a multimedia publicly accessible, engaging space with Public Programs that help the general public understand a little bit more about what is diplomacy. Possibly, they could become involved. We are actively collecting history, researching and developing programs. We have a very active Public Program already for students. The ways we celebrate diplomacy is through the wonderful items we ...

Museum and Education Center currently under development at the department of state. It will be a multimedia, publicly accessible, engaging space with Public Programs that help the general public understand a little bit more about what is diplomacy. What is diplomacys relevance to their lives today and how, possibly, they could become involved. We are actively collecting artifacts, researching history, and developing Public Programs. We are very busy. We have a very active Public Program already ...

Publicly accessible, engaging space with Public Programs that help the general public understand a little bit more about what is diplomacy. And how, possibly, they could become involved. We are actively collecting artifacts, researching history, and developing programs. We have a very active Public Program already for students. One of the ways we celebrate diplomacy is through the wonderful items we have in our collection. Absolutely. Lets jump right in. The first item we would like to show is t...