Welcome to new perspectives and sources on the elaine massacre of 1919. The panel is devoted to advancing our understanding of the horrific series of events that began just over 100 years ago in which africanamericans were hunted down by a paranoid and enraged crowd of whites inside delta arkansas. I want to recognize first the work guy lancaster did in helping to organize this panel. Unfortunately he had to change his plans to join us and participate. All three of our scholars here on this panel are contributors to a book edited by guy lancaster and we are shamelessly plugging that right here. The the elaine massacre and arkansas a century of atrocity and resistance, 1819 to 1919. Full disclosure, im in there too. But this is not about me. I want to introduce all three of our panelists first, and they will each present for about 20, 25 minutes. And after that i will spend just a few minutes offering some thoughts designed to generate discussion. And then i will get out of the way and
Conference quick welcome to new perspectives and sources, this is a panel to devoted to understanding a horrific series events that started just over id years ago where African Americans were hunted down by an raged crowd of whites in arkansas, i want to recognize the work lancaster did in helping to organize this panel, in unfortunately he had to change his plans to join us, and participate all three of our scholars, here on this panel are contributors to a book edited, we are shamelessly plugging that right here, the elaine mascara in arkansas, a century of atrocity and resistance, 1819 to 1919, full disclosure i read it to, this is not about me, i want to introduced all three of our panelists first, though each present for about 20 to 25 minutes, and after that i will spend just a few minutes offering some thoughts, designed to generate discussion and then we will enjoy a question, answer i will get out of the, way we will go in the order of the Program First matthew hills who, is a
Region, his efforts to make a significant strike against americans. Weve been planning for this and we were prepared. Paul Mark Dubowitz, chief executive for the defense of democracy. Welcome. Good do see you again. I was reading your twitter feed and i notice that you were saying that this killing of soleimani may be more significant even than the killing of osama bin laden. How so . Qasem soleimani for 23 years has dominated the middle east. If you can imagine combination of our joint special Operations Commander with our joint chiefs of staff with our cia director and our foreign minister or secretary of state, you roll that into one man and thats qasem soleimani. Paul he had that much influence . Huge influence. Huge yopower. Huge power. Really somebody to be admired for his prowess and operational capacity as well as his tactical brilliance. He really has created enormous difficulties for u. S. Interests, as secretary pompeo said, he has american blood on his hands as well as the
Days when that meant something and it really mattered. We respected people who hold these types of positions. We look forward to hearing from him tonight. Leavingink without even the stage, i will get the first panel underway so that we can start this. Professor, illege would say, get your notepads out. We will start with our first invite thei want to panelists to come up to the stage. Tim sale from the university of to chair theing panel and lead the discussion. , who has beento in the news quite a bit. Meghan osullivan, the kirkpatrick professor at the Kennedy School at harvard, an expert on north america, among other things, and one of the officials of the trilateral commission. Peter feaver, welcome back to the hilltop. He is a professor at duke and director of the grant staff Strategy Program and former white house official in the Bush Administration. If you would not mind joining me and giving a big round of welcome for our panelists. Tim . [applause] tim thank you. It is a pleas
Americans still missing. Since moved into a new role as Research Historian where he spent the majority of his time helping family members discover their loved ones world war ii stories throughout our services. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome james dausey. [applause] thank you, pete. It is a great honor to be a part of this incredible conference. It is my third of these and a great delight to moderate a panel with such esteemed unfamiliar speakers. Twoink you know our speakers very well. I will keep the introductions brief for both of them. First, going in the order of presentation first, james , holland. Historian, writer, and broadcaster. We have seen him on countless tv shows and documentaries. Hes led many of our tours here at the museum. There are too many books i would take 10 minutes going through all of his books. Just to mention a few of them italys sorrow, a year of war, 194445, fortress malta, the battle of britain. Hes working through a threevolume new history of the Se