She received her phd from Boston College after teaching for a few years she moved to villanova. That is where she is now a professor. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including most recently sex and the civil war, soldiers, pornography, and the making of american morality. Home Something Like that. That is not right. The diary of a free black woman and philadelphia. Which my scholars just read and discussed, and we all want to know what happened. Sorry. Judie is much more than a academic civil war nerd. Though she is this, which i know because i ran into her family on the memorial day weekend heading to see the graves of black civil war soldiers as the rest of us eight barbecue. She is a devoted public historian having moved from editing to a new digital project, finding families after slavery. This open access database give scholars and students and genealogists a chance to examine thousands of information on lost friends and relatives advertisements that were taken out
[inaudible question] boston and charleston might be seen as opposite but we are talking about two of the oldest cities in america, visual cities, and sections in history. Why do we care about charleston in the year 1860 . Well, we know here why we care. This is my starting point for the book. Charleston was really the vanguard and it was written the last day of 1860s to a colleague, a fellow man of the church in the north, he shed light on this. People are living in these times and that matter actually helped me make up his mind because there has to be story there. Five phases of what might be thought of as madness, public issues. First is fear. The story begins in the fall of 1859, really. John brown, the militants, and the range there was tremendous alarm and the beginning of the broad scale uprising. The hometown paper said your negroes are constantly wanting to cut our throats. They are forming Vigilance Committee and calling for attention to the Abolition Party of the north. Lets
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
He is going to ramp up spending on the military and cut back on programs that he sees as unnecessary. National correspondent Blaine Alexander is live shooin washington. Blaine, this speech could draw fire from all sides. Tell us more. Katy, tonight were expected to hear the president take an optimistic tone. Thats according to the white house. Well expect to hear him list his accomplishments so far and lay out his priorities going forward. Tonight House Speaker paul ryan playing host to the president during President Trumps historic first address to a joint session of congress. A one time critic, today speaker ryan is praising the president s approach. Thats exactly the kind of commander and chief we need in this country. All i can do is speak from the heart. Reporter a speech expected to tick down a list of Campaign Promises kept and still shooin works. Were coming out with a Health Care Plan i think will be terrif terrif terrific. Reporter cutting funds to the state department and En
[inaudible] he served as president of the National Underground railroad National Underground Railroad Freedom center for six years and worked at the National Museum of American History for 20. His most important exhibition was the groundbreaking field to factory. It generated a National Discussion on migration, race. He also cocurated the american presidency, a glorious burden. The National Underground Railroad Freedom center has attracted worldwide attention because of the quality of its presentation and focus on race, interracial cooperation, and issues of contemporary slavery. He has published extensively in the areas of public history. He is the past chair of the National Council for history education. He has been selected to the organization of american historians distinguished lecture symposium. He graduated from Brown University and holds a masters degree in a doctorate degree from rutgers university. [applause] he holds the chair of Civil War History at Dickinson College and se