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Up next on American History tv, former National Park chief historian, robert sutton, explained why new england abolitionists immigrated to kansas and their efforts to make kansas a free state and their impact on the civil war. Good morning, everyone and welcome to the watkins. Its my distinct pleasure and honor to welcome our keynote speaker today. Mr. Robert k. Sutton. Mr. Sutton retired as chief historian of the National Park service in 2016, after serving in the position for nearly nine years. He came here after being superintendent of the manassas state park for 12 useful years and publish...

And published articles and reviews on various history topics. One of his primary interests as chief historian and superintendent at manassas was heeding the emphasis on expanding the interpretation of the civil war for the centennial. He is assisting Commission Staff in developing interpretive programs to commemorate the centennial of world war i and currently working on a book on world war i aimed at middle school children. He has continued teaching and teaches courses in the john hopkins Senior Adult Program on the world west and will be on the viking Ocean Cruises as well. He has written a ...

The reaction to citizens of boston was instantaneous invite. Two days after he was arrested, 7000 bostonians broke in the jail to try to release him. The melee one u. S. Marshal was killed and injured. On may 27th, three days after burns was arrested, he was brought before the federal magistrate by his owner. There really up with a hearing to return a slave to slavery. The magistrate made the determination that he was a slave and ordered him to return to slavery. June 2nd, just a few days later, 2000 soldiers, u. S. Soldiers and marines escorted Anthony Burns to Boston Harbor to ship to return...

All right. We need to go ahead and get started with our first session today. And it is wonderful to see quite the turnout at 8 30 in the morning for a panel on James Buchanan, which is we all know that James Buchanan is often overlooked, but we are going to remedy that here in just a moment. I want to quickly introduce our two speakers. First is john quist. John is the tall one standing behind michael. He is a professor of history at shippensberg university. He teaches classes in 19th century u. S. As well as civil war era. He studied at the university of michigan under j. Mills thorton. Recal...

All right. We need to go ahead and get started with our first session today. And it is wonderful to see quite the turnout at 8 30 in the morning for a panel on James Buchanan, which is we all know that James Buchanan is often overlooked, but we are going to remedy that here in just a moment. I want to quickly introduce our two speakers. First is john quist. John is the tall one standing behind michael. He is a professor of history at shippensberg university. He teaches classes in 19th century u. S. As well as civil war era. He studied at the university of michigan under j. Mills thorton. Recal...