caribbean or some other part of a yet-determined united states. the fact that not just the slaves were free but that the slaves remained here had incredible consequences for the country. i mean, we can talk about the obvious good when we think about the freedom struggles of various different groups, when we think women, when we think about the current marriage equality levels. all of this stuff dates back to the civil rights movement which itself dates back to the civil war. one of the most stunning things i came across in my very recent study was when you start studying the women s rights movement and you see how many of those folks started out as emancipationists i m sorry abolitionists. excuse me. when you hear sarah gremke saying by looking into the rights of slaves i gained deeper insights into my own rights as a woman, that s a mangled quote but basically the essence of what she said. it is impossible for me to picture america as it is today without picturing africa
new ways but being shown things that didn t even didn t occur to you. we were just having a conversation he was suggesting basically political science tools that i can apply to my data and come up with some pretty interesting conclusions, so right there is the conference in action. in the field of political science regarding congress, what are some of the top issues that are coming out? what are some of the areas of discussion your students want to hear you talk about, are asking you about, or your colleagues are researching it? there is a lot of work on parties and people trying to make sense of a question that you raised earlier, which is why are the parties polarizing as much as they are? how strong are parties? what does it mean for a party to influence the behavior of a rank and file member? these are live questions among scholars and in many ways unresolved questions. the period you re writing about is we saw the decline of the wig party, correct, and then the
people, what i didn t understand until i started taking this path back into history is that there very much was another option on the table, that is, black people not being here at all. black people being recolonized and leaving for africa or caribbean or some other part of a yet-determined united states. the fact that not just slaves were free but that the slaves remained here had incredible consequences for the country. we can talk about the obvious good when we think about the freedom struggles of various different groups. when we think about the current marriage equality, it dates back to the civil rights movement which itself dates back to the civil war. one of the most stunning things i came across in my very recent study was when you start studying the women s rights movements and you see how many of those folks started out as abolitionists. when you hear sarah gremky saying by looking into the rights of slaves, i gained deeper insights into my own rights as a woman. t
reservations in the state. i find it very interesting that it once again proves that no good deed goes unpunished, because the natives are what allowed us to survive and history alls reflects those who write it. thank you. when i write a book about indian history, if i catch it from both the indians and the nonindians, i figure i am probably being accurate. yes, ma am. what is your feeling about the current controversy or whether or not native americans arrived 20,000 years ago and if you think they did or whenever you think they came, how long did they live in these coastal areas? can you answer that? you are asking a cultural anthropologist who is not anarchy olgist. i have no problem with people arriving in north america during any int glasal or any interstayedal. i committed myself on national public radio a few years ago on a show with jim action tell from william and mary. they said, where was the first thanksgiving in massachusetts or virginia? i said, neither
george preston, jim mcpherson has served as president of both the society of american historians and american historical association. at my last count he had published 21 books, added significant other volumes, contributed a slew of important articles, two journals and books and essays, and has written introductions to numerous published work. both abraham lincoln as commander in chief won the lincoln prize. among the many things that distinguished mcpherson s career is will relevance of his work not only as we struggle to understand the civil war and reconstructions but our own times. his dissertation of the first book struggle for equality 1964 appeared during the heroic years of the civil rights movement during a time that his adviser c. van woodward termed the second reconstructions. both reconstructionses, northern activists went south to work for racial justice and were accused of doing so for less than noble reasons. before mcpherson s work scholars argued that abo