Introduce Nicole Meyers turner and her book. Nicole turner is assistant professor of religious studies at yale university. She earned her ph. D in history at the university of pennsylvania, her masters at divinity at the seminary in new york and her bachelors degree from hairford college and shes the author of this 2020 book soul liberty, postemancipation virginia published this year by the university of North Carolina press and before asking niconicole the first question i want to mention that this book appears in this conventional version of a hard copy, but also has two other versions and part of what makes her work so interesting is that it is so engaged from digital humanities and the book also exists as a conventional sort of conventional as she describes it verbatim, openaccess ebook and also as an enhanced openaccess ebook which shows off what dr. Turner was able to do with mapping and kind of Digital Technology in order to develop her Research Findings and so one of things i h
Remind you, a lot goes into this kind of an event and many people have worked very, very hard, harder than ive worked, to put all of this together. One of the people who could not be here was frank cogliano, because he got stuck in newark. Hell be here later this evening. His cochair is here and shes going to say a few words. Thank you. [applause] welcome. Im sorry that frank isnt here to join me for this further welcome. Just to say how wonderful it is to see everyone here and to work with such an Amazing Group of people. I especially want to thank annette and frank, my cochair, robin, without whom we would sees to function, and also to the Wonderful Program committee, one of whose members is sitting there many are in the audience tonight and they generously of time an talent to put this program together to go through the many proposals that we had. Weir looking forward to what is an exciting, interesting, varied diverse sheer with a lot of different panels and topics. Its a pleasure
By the Gettysburg College civil war institute. Big thank you mr. Carmichael. I am also of says i am a director of the civil war institute. It is my pleasure this afternoon to introduce Elizabeth Van lew who is the associate director for civil war history. Awesome williams professor of American History at the university of virginia. Thankfully, she is not a hockey buff. At least i do not believe she is. Oh gosh, she said go caps. What has happened to American Sports . I do not know. I never thought in a civil war conference people would be dying about hockey, but such is life. Elizabeth is a published scholar. We need to be counted, white women. Published by the university of the North Carolina press 1998. This union which is one of my favorite overviews of the political crisis of the 18 fifties. It is quite good. Published by the university of North Carolina press. Victory, defeat, and freedom at the end of the civil war, published by oxford. It is an outstanding book. It is a way to l
Can see here firefighters trying to put out the flames there this is in San Francisco. Its still unclear tonight if anyone was inside of that building when it was collapsed. Were of course following this story and we will be bringing you more information as we get it throughout this broadcast. Additional cases in the United States are likely. But healthy individuals should be able to fully recover. To our other top story tonight, the coronavirus claiming its first victim in the United States. But the Trump Administration says the risk to americans for coronavirus remains low good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. Im dan thorn Justine Waltman is off tonight the person who died was a 50 yearold man in Washington State and the number of cases in the u s continues to climb as melissa rainy reports. The white house has announced new travel restrictions in an attempt to contain the growing outbreak. Saturday Health Officials in Washington State confirmed the first death in the Un
Redlining and the idea how the Real Estate Industry was institutionalizing or solidifying racial bias the way the autonomy was built but this new book that has been written picks up the story and it doesnt get better. And that the unc press could support this and university of North Carolina press it is amazing vital work of the Civil Rights Movement i would recommend checking out it is an amazing list. It is just the latest in that so please join me to welcome ms. Taylor. Thank you very much. Race for profit how banks in the Real Estate Industry undermine black homeowners. It isnt particularly conducive for reading bits and parts i have a 15 minute overview of what i think are the most important aspects of the book. So to give some context that we can discuss afterwards. And to describe the baltimore as a rat infested mass but that cool and thinly veiled code and to convey that fatalistic disregard to have a decided lack of ambition as rodent infestation. So it is not evident of afric