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the arts is history students. you know me. i'm professor april mastin we are very fortunate today to have a guest lecture president of stony brook university maury mcginnis. i'd like to tell you a little bit about her the title of her dr. mcginnis's lecture as you can see is the shadow of slavery in public life. this topic is relevant not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. but also how they affect the present or in the words of james baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. the res...

baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. the research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasn't adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. dr. mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularly the politics of slavery. she's an award-winning author co-author and editor of six b...

the opportunity to stay home with my children after i have had children after i had twins. i stayed home taking care of them and had a really great time being the wife of the governor of texas first lady of our state. i've had the opportunity to work on issues that i've been interested in my whole life that had to do with education and reading and libraries. and i've loved that. i think i've actually had the opportunity to make a little bit of an impact. and i think that's been great. but i also think our country has benefited from the first ladies. always we have two very revered fi...

traditional mother. what does that mean? well, actually i said that i have always had traditional jobs. i've had jobs that were traditionally women's jobs. i was a school teacher and school librarian. i was a public librarian for one year in houston. i think in a lot of ways, i've been lucky. i've been very fortunate to have the opportunity to stay home with my children after i have had children after i had twins. i stayed home taking care of them and had a really great time being the wife of the governor of texas first lady of our state. i've had the opportunity to work on issues th...

i think the reason reason is because of expectations. you know today in politics you would see say there's a presidential campaign. the primary campaign is going on and several candidates are seeking the nomination of one of the parties and they're coming up on one of the nominating the primers the state primary and you'll typically you'll hear some politicians say oh if i finish in the top three, that will be a win that if i to finish in the top three, i'll be very happy or something like that. and of course, he's trying to manage expectations. because if he does that successfully a...