financing for research and grants for fellowships for the national endowment for the humanities, brandeis institute, and the american jewish archives. [inaudible] to be sure. she has been a recipient of our society [inaudible] literary award for an earlier article about you guessed it [inaudible]. today we continue that conversation. i'm delighted to welcome her to the society's virtual platform. i'm delighted to welcome our audience for which i promise will be an interesting and informative afternoon. thanks. >> thank you for that wonderful introduction. while i try to share my screen, as i thought i might even though i practiced this, i'm going to take a minute to thank the historical society for making this book possible and indeed making it possible for me to write about bessie margolin. i received enormous assistance from the resident historian of the society and she was instrumental in allowing me to have this program go forward. so i'm hoping -- terrific. all right. again, thank you to the historical society. i know bessie would be very pleased for you all to be learning and getting introduc

financing for research and grants for fellowships for the national endowment for the humanities, brandeis institute, and the american jewish archives. [inaudible] to be sure. she has been a recipient of our society [inaudible] literary award for an earlier article about you guessed it [inaudible]. today we continue that conversation. i'm delighted to welcome her to the society's virtual platform. i'm delighted to welcome our audience for which i promise will be an interesting and informative afternoon. thanks. >> thank you for that wonderful introduction. while i try to share my screen, as i thought i might even though i practiced this, i'm going to take a minute to thank the historical society for making this book possible and indeed making it possible for me to write about bessie margolin. i received enormous assistance from the resident historian of the society and she was instrumental in allowing me to have this program go forward. so i'm hoping -- terrific. all right. again, thank you to the historical society. i know bessie would be very pleased for you all to be learning and getting introduc

recognition and research grants and fellowships from the national - for the humanities, and brandeis institute, and the american jewish archivists andshe's been the recipient for societies and she has literary award for article about you guessed it, bessie margolin, and today we continue the conversation. i'm delighted to welcome marlene trestman to the h societies virtual platform and i'm delighted to welcome our audience. in this will be an interesting and informative afternoon and thanks. >> thank you for that wonderful introduction and while i am steering my screen, is it thato it might even though i practiced this, hon were to minutes to think the historical society for making this book possible and indeed, making it possible for me to write the article about bessie margolin, and received enormous assistance from claire cushman, was now a belief the resident historian of the hsociety had she was instrumenl in allowing me to have this program go forward. and again, thank you to historical society and i know bessie margolin would be very pleased for you all to be learning and getting introd

has received recognition in fellowships from the national endowment for the humanities, the brandeis institute and american jewish archives. a busy lady to be sure. she has been a recipient of our society's gossip literary award for earlier article about, you guessed it, bessie margolin. today we continue that conversation. i'm delighted to welcome marlene trestman to the society's virtual platform and delighted to welcome our audience for what i promise will an interesting and informative afternoon. thanks. >> guest: thank you for that wonderful introduction. while i share my screen as i thought i might even though i practiced this, i want to take a moment to thank the historical society for making this book possible and indeed making it possible for to write the article about bessie margolin. i received enormous assistance from claire cushman who is now i believe the resident historian of society and she was instrumental in allowing me to have this program go forward. and again, thank you to the historical society. i know a good 11 would be pleased for you to get introduced to her today. thr

behind. >> we found documents that show the radiation has moved off site, including at the brandeis-bardin instituteeded to be worried about. she said, it's all good. we have had a settlement. and everything on that land has been cleaned up. and there's nothing to worry about. >> i think one of the most surprising documents we unearthed was an internal report commission by the camp, like proved there was a lot of contamination from santa suzannah, but ran down to children's camp, and it was the basis for the camp suing the owners of the field lab, and then, secretly settling that lawsuit. >> when i hear about a settlement, what comes to mind is that there's a reliability here. we don't often want to hear those sides of things. we don't often want to hear that there's something wrong. they have not been transparent and exactly what's going up up there, even now. >> how can one person be noticed with thyroid cancer at age four, with two recurrences. and then, end up with an extremely rare uterine cancer with no family history of any kind. >> we were four women that will we're all cancer free, and now,

brandeis and ucla and cornell. and then to join the hoover institution and that is where he has been ever since so with the mainstream university have hired him? >> he could ever do any college that he wanted to. and the university of wisconsin. and then to get tenure and to work and was quite talented. and then talking about racial controversies then to surpass most people in the field. then with the faculty around and those who want to interfere with the teaching style that this was the 19 sixties and then to have women's rights movement and all these things were coming together through this sort of thing in time was of a different generation intended to teach that way. and that is very difficult to do. and then to be much more indulgent so he just would not bend. so then at cornell in the late sixties and was on faculty at the time and he stuck it out through the seventies and to be put in the think tank world already but then decided to leave teaching altogether. but not even research he wanted to be a teacher. >> by the way i was thinking talking about childhood. >> it's interesting. yes the great aunt that rais

about the sixties and seventies teach at amherst and brandeis and ucla and cornell and in 1882's length —- joining the hoover institution if there were no hoover institution by the mainstream university hired him? [laughter] >> time could have worked any college or university he wanted to. he turned down offers university of wisconsin, he could've gotten tenure and worked in any economic department. he was quite talented scholar in his discipline before he ever began writing about racial controversy. just the academic publication which surpasses those in the field. where he ran into trouble is that college administrators that i think part of the problem was thise was the 1960s and higher education was changing you had a woman gay rightsment and and all the things were coming together and it's a different generation but they intended to teach the way he was taught. that was harder in the sixties and became very difficult to do and then to be much more indulgent but that could have been the breaking point for him but then eventually decided to leave teaching altogether's but his first love was classroom teaching. he wante

brandeis, ucla and cornell. and then in 1980 he joined stanford university andthat's where he's been ever since . >> if there were no hoover institution with a mainstream university have hired him? >> tom could have worked at any college, any university he rewanted. he turned down offers from places like dartmouth, university of wisconsin. he could have gotten tenure and work at any economic department. it's quite clear. he was quite talented scholar in his discipline before he ever began writing about racial controversy. just a number of academic publications . surpassed most people in the field. what tom ran into trouble with was the faculty lunch. the college administrators and so forth and i think part of the problem was this was the 1960s . and higher education was changing. you had women's rights movement and i gay rights movement and an antiwar movement. all these things were coming together. collegecampuses were being used as platforms for this sort of thing and tom was a different generation . i think he intended to teach the way he was taught. and that was hard starting in the 1960s it became very difficult to do. the profes