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Instructor: Shelley Murphy
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Sessions: 1 Dates: 8/12/2020 - 8/12/2020 WEBINAR. Please register to receive the link and passcode.
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Times: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
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Course Location: Online -
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Location Address: , VA
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Free and Open to the Public!
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Course Description: This Special Presentation will provide an overview of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVA and tips on how to conduct logical genealogical research in finding descendants of those ancestors who were enslaved. Included will be a basic understanding of the genealogy research and resources that are available. Attendees also will be introduced to research strategies such as SO WHAT! and building public/private trees and timelines.
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Instructor: Sarah Milov
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Sessions: 1 Dates: 8/28/2020 - 8/28/2020 WEBINAR. Please register to receive the link and passcode.
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Times: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Days: F
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Course Location: Online -
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Location Address: , VA
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Free and Open to the Public!
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Course Description: We tend to think about the history of the cigarette as a triumph of science and public health over powerful forces of corporate deception. But a longer look at the political history of the cigarette reveals the importance of the federal government in making the cigarette epidemic, and the important role that activists played in clearing the air. Anti-smoking activists won not by passing federal legislation, but by changing laws and rules at the local level. Their strategies may reveal lessons for today as we face federal inaction on a pressing issue of public health.
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Instructor: Justene Edwards
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Sessions: 1 Dates: 11/13/2020 - 11/13/2020 WEBINAR. Please register to receive the link and passcode.
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Times: 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Days: F
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Course Location: Online -
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Location Address: , VA
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Free and Open to the Public!
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Course Description: Thomas Jefferson had a complex relationship with his close friend, once-secretary, and career diplomat William Short. One issue over which they never found commonality was slavery. Both Jefferson and Short included slaveholding in their financial portfolios, but it was Short who made good on his philanthropic goals of divesting himself from slavery. And over Short's lifetime, his ideas about slavery evolved. Perhaps his evolved perspective on slavery and people of African descent, one that differed from Jefferson's, influenced Short's decision to make limited visits to Monticello after the 1810's. In particular, Jefferson and Short held different views on the correct path toward slave emancipation, with Short supporting the emancipation of slaves and providing them with land while Jefferson advocated for a more gradual process of emancipation.
The perspectives of Thomas Jefferson and William Short illuminate the complicated political history of gradual emancipation and the early republican idea of property ownership as freedom in America.
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Instructor: John Ragosta
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Sessions: 1 Dates: 12/16/2020 - 12/16/2020 WEBINAR. Please register to receive the link and passcode.
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Times: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
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Course Location: Online -
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Location Address: , VA
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Free and Open to the Public!
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Course Description: Patrick Henry led the anti-federalists in their effort to defeat ratification of the U.S. Constitution because he believed that it created a government too powerful and distant from the people and undermined the authority of the states. Yet in the spring of 1799, at the behest of George Washington, Henry came out of retirement to defend the Constitution against the radical states' rights agenda of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Henry's commitment to democratic solutions to intractable party disputes continues to speak loudly to us today.
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