I am an assistant professor of history at the university of maryland. Im going to be chairing the panel. Im going to offer some brief comments, some thoughts and questions i had to start generating conversation. Our threeto introduce presenters. If we are going to go in the order they appear on the program. They will speak for roughly 20 minutes. Our first presenter is going to be Graham Hodges. He has written on africanamericans and labor in new york city. He has written a political biography on underground railroad activities. He is working on a book and we will hear his ideas about the the secondrea printer is going to be as associate professor of history at northwestern university. U. S. After the war and emancipation. Our third presenter is going to be philip prop. Troutman. He is working on a project that essentially explores of the literature and the images of radical antislavery during the antebellum period. We will hear about his approach that combination of literature and ima
I will be chairing or moderating the panel. After the three papers i will offer some brief comments, some thoughts, some questions i had in order to make it hopefully start generating conversations for us for the q a portion. I will introduce our three presenters. We will go in the order they appear on the program. The presenters will speak for roughly 20 minutes, and that i will speak for a few minutes and open things up. Our first presenter will be Graham Hodges, the George Langevin professor of history at Colgate University. He has written on africanamericans and labor in new york city, and more recently written a political apathy of david robles, and important figure in railroad activities. He is working on a book that reframes the underground railroad and will hear about his ideas about reframing, thinking about the underground railroad and a larger context if reading freedom making. Kate mazer, associate professor of history at northwestern. She has written on emancipation and wa
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May their efforts these days guarantee that there are in the winners and losers under new tax laws. And as the president celebrates i get a big, big kick out of that. What to make of the historic peace talks between north and south korea. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. On the very same day the president took a victory lap over a republican report clearing him of any wrongdoing in the 2016 election, nbc news revealed that that lawyer who met with the president s son during the campaign has much closer ties to the russian government than previously known. Today republicans on the House Intelligence Committee released their final heavily redacted report on russian interference in the election, which youll be shocked to hear, the president hailed as total vindication. Yeah, we were honored. It was a great report. No collusion, which i knew anyway. No coordination. No nothing. The report was very powerful, very strong. There was no collusion between wan