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With lonnie bunch director of the National Smithsonian museum of africanamerican history and culture. Lonnie bunch, who is Junius Williams . Junius williams is a really fascinating individual because his life straddles both the south and the north. He is somebody who was, grew up middle class in richmond, virginia. Went to college in massachusetts. And got involved very early in the Civil Rights Movement. He was with a group of people, integrated group of kids who were going down to march in montgomery in 1963, 1964 and what is fascinating is that he suddenly is introduced to the Student Nonvi...

Welcome in really need to be welcomed in a very personal confident way. To cut through some of that alienation and loneliness. , i conceived of a Mentorship Program where we pair incoming new members, graduate students, with a senior scholar of their choice, who has volunteered to do this. To get together for at least an hour for a cup of coffee, which the oah pays for. And to talk about the Young Persons career and their interests and the direction they wish to take. This morning, and met with two mentees and we talked about their work. We also talked about the job market and ways in which th...

Integrated group of kids who ine going down to march montgomery in 1963, 1964. Suddenly is introduced to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Hes introduced to the activity going on in the south and he becomes very active there. What is so powerful about his back to that he goes law school, and as hes getting ready to go to law school, he is student the head of the society to come to newark, new jersey to help organize and fight the battle for civil rights in the north. Is heunius williams does goes there and it allows us to see the Civil Rights Movement was not simply a southern mov...

He was endlessly fascinating and dynamic. Roosevelt refers to the room as gloomy respectability. People like to refer to him as teddy roosevelt. He actually hated being referred to as teddy. Ralliested at political and from the media, but as a child he was nicknamed td. As an adult, he was referred to as the kernel. The interesting thing about colonelferred to as the was that is total military time was about three months. The home had all the modern amenities at this part of the 19th century. That is a common question we get. The roosevelts were doing pretty well for themselves. It pays to get...

House to alert the president , he receives a third call. The whole thing had been a false alarm, a computer error at norad. The point about this is the scenario was very real, the stakes are very high in the cold war. 10 years later, something amazing happened. We have all seen images of the berlin wall opening in 1989 and we will get to see them again this fall as we commemorate the 25th anniversary of that momentous occasion. What happened over these years . How does the cold war and . How do we go from the National Security advisor getting called in the middle of the night to suddenly the w...