think that would please my father why i went to harvard is because it was harvard. and i knew lots of people were able to do things i saw government officials, harvard is a place that provides a public service, a lot of my colleagues and the people who were on the faculty before went back and forth between government and academia. i practice three years the cahill gordon and riedel which is the law firm. then i was counseled to a small city agency called the board of corrections which is the oversight agency in the department of corrections. an agency but the jail our job standards forhe the jail and make sure thosere were followed. is not a prisoners rights organization but had t that bit it was like a tiny agency that had a a huge mandate and no money to carry it out but we did the best we can do. i practice for about seven years even in private practice but government practice itself here new york for. >> your known as a historian and a history professor. jude meets a new york supreme court justice at harvard law school? >> yes, i did. robert reed my h husband, w

i think it was to please my father but i went to harvard because it's harvard when you want to peopleovernment officials that prizes public service and my colleagues and people who run the faculty before with government and academia i worked at a wall street law firm and then i was counsel to a small city agency called the board of corrections which is the oversight agency to the department of corrections that runs the jails. and our job was to write minimum standards to make sure those were followed not prisoners rights but it had that bent. i tiny agency with a huge mandate and no money to carry it out but we did the best we could do. i practiced about seven years in private or government here in new york. host: you are known as a historian and history professor did you meet the new york supreme court justice at harvard law school? >> yes i did. robert reed, my husband at the black law school student association picnic. . . . . >> illegal method. think your pushing us to be together and we used to sit in the lobby and watch tv and other tv shows after we finished studying.yi we got

think that would please my father why i went to harvard is because it was harvard. and i knew lots of people were able to do things i saw government officials, harvard is a place that provides a public service, a lot of my colleagues and the people who were on the faculty before went back and forth between government and academia. i practice three years the cahill gordon and riedel which is the law firm. then i was counseled to a small city agency called the board of corrections which is the oversight agency in the department of corrections. an agency but the jail our job standards forhe the jail and make sure thosere were followed. is not a prisoners rights organization but had t that bit it was like a tiny agency that had a a huge mandate and no money to carry it out but we did the best we can do. i practice for about seven years even in private practice but government practice itself here new york for. >> your known as a historian and a history professor. jude meets a new york supreme court justice at harvard law school? >> yes, i did. robert reed my h husband, w

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students they're never intending to take so harvard, princeton, gayle and you harvard, princeton or yale up apply that's one more rejection it makes it more exclusive. it's an extremely unethical act it's wasting people's time, wasting their money, leading them on increase the prestige of the university and the ranking systems. >> what was your college experience would you do it differently today? >> i went to a small liberal arts college for undergraduate. graduate school phd and a large public university taught at both types of institutions. i see some similarities some differences i offer the same advice into the high school students when i talk to them today, think about it strategically. pick a major base out what you think will be suited and trying to discover yourself are trying to find a new path, hobby or consumption in life. in other words, think a way to get to college efficiently. one thing i would have done is continuing in the community college credit not the general education requirements out of the way. what we will find is these are the major contributor to the cost of c

will you be teaching this fall b at harvard and what we be teaching?es i will be back and this year in the fall i will be teaching, we are open and i'm excited about that part of the teaching american english history in the fall and on the entry level hiring committee again so i will have that class and in the springtime i will be teaching a class with peter onuf and teaching legal -- in the spring. >> host: and peter onuf is the co-author of your book. i've taken enough of your time but let's hear from our callers. in california your first up with annette gordon-reed. >> caller: thanks for taking my call him professor reid i've been very fascinating listening to you and it's so wonderful. my question is about sally hemings and thomas jefferson. what do we know about the relationship and obviously he owned her which is to say that he owned her but was there just she was handy? there were manyn women i am sure it would have been more than happy to be his companion and i understand he promised his wife he would not remarry. but what do we know about the

[laughter] >> in our next harvard tour event. and i wanted to do the best make it or to bring all of that together and to try to create something that almost was notified by genre. and to attempt to sort of break it apart. and then break the pieces of these pieces that i love to bring it together to create different sort of literary and historical collage and make it feel like you went along on this journey with me and they were not talk at her preach two. not a historical text but i just wanted to have it read like a normal this what i tried to do. >> i was wondering if you wouldn't mind waiting one last paragraph to close us out because one of the pieces that we have not discussed is your focus on education. we started out this project because you are a teacher and concerned about your students but also you are a student. i think your clearly a lifelong learner and an artist in this one paragraph on page 293, the last paragraph, it was so beautiful and i wanted to share it because i think are educators this audience right now i

i went to harvard is because it was harvard. i knew lots of people sought government officials, harvard is a place to public service in academia. i practice three here's at the wall street law firm.y then i was to the small city agency called the board of corrections part is the oversight agency to the department of corrections,me the agency with the jail. my job or our job was to write minimum standards for the jail. to make sure those were followed. they had that, as a tiny agency that had a huge mandate and no money to carry it out. but we did the best we could do. i practice for about seven years. either in private practice or government practice as well. >> your known as a historian and a history professor. did you meet the new york supreme court adjusted at harvard law school? >> yes, i did, i did. robert reed, my husband, we met at the black law students association picnic. he is a good-looking guy guy. we were in the same storm harvard is a big law school the firstst year at section divided up into four sections. we were

and our next harvard bookstore event. i wanted to make it, to bring all of that together to try to create something that almost wasn't defined by genre or confined by genre and that was to attempt to break it apart. and break the pieces in each genre that i loved and put it together for a different sort of literary and historical collage and make it feel like the readers along this journey with me and not their talks that are. to or a jargon of historical texts but i wanted to to be a history book they read like a novel. >> i was wondering if you wouldn't mind reading is one last paragraph to close this out because one of the pieces that we haven't discussed is your focus on education. he started out this project because you are a teacher and you are concerned about your students but also you are a student and i think that you are clearly a lifelong learners will is an artist and one paragraph on page 293 the last paragraph that was so beautiful. i wanted to share because i think their educators in this audience right now

this month harvard professor winning author annette gordan-reed. andrew johnson the biography 2010 most blessed of the patriarchs 2016. and then annette gordan-reed also has co-authored a book with the late vernon jordan. 2001. with race on trial and in american history and your voices are very important. annette gordan-reed and 2008 you won the national book award. i was there that night i remember he walked by me and you just looked a little bit stunned at what was happening when you one. but we went to play little bit of your acceptance speech. >> i have to think first the two people who are not here my mother and father who are responsible for everything that i am that is good. and it's the journey that we try to do m with the scholarship and. host: annette gordon-reed who we are parents? >> my father was alfred and my mother was betty jean. and in a segregated society. my father went into the army after graduating from high school and his mother had died when he was 11 his father was an invalid so he was a career army person then came out my m

at harvard versus renaming.jefferson hemmings i don't want to be opposed to it but i don't think it solves the problem with jefferson in the concern about jefferson and the slaveholders. host: kayden sacramento follows up on that incense and says in her question is your thoughts removal of statutes of prominent confederates. annette: i've been on the record to sayay that i've seen a reason why there should be statutes of confederates in public spaces. in america, not just the racial question prayed me people of finance united states of americn who tried - battlefields, were coming up the getty springs is on everybody's mind rated and te battlefields was one thing cemeteries another thing that public squares, i mean, in itself, to the union show soldiers when you canul talk abt reconciliation and we can't make that choice for the people who were killed a dude who died during that war. in the values of the confederacy which are announced in this constitution and the cornerstone speech and the vice president that i

at harvard methodist church right there on harvard law school campus. >> robert reed is a justice at the new yorksupreme court . would you be teaching in person this fall at harvard and what will you be teaching western mark i will be back and this year in the fall i will be teaching yes, we're open for business and we're going to get back into the swing of things. i'm going to be teaching american legal history in the fall. and i am sharing that entry level hiring again. so i will have that class that will be just one class in the fall and the springtime, i will be teaching a class on constitutional law and empire and i will be teaching legal profession which is legal ethics in the spring. >> and peter is her co-author on the most blessed of the patriarchs book. i've taken of your time, let's hear from our colors. jim and kelly and a california, you are first with annette gordon-reed. >> at you for taking my call and professor, i've been fascinated listening to you it's been wonderful . my question is about sally hemmings and thomas jefferson . what do we know about their relationsh

. >> the late derek bell, harvard law school first black tenure as a.c-span.org/podcast or wherever you get your podcast. ♪♪ >> your watching book tv on c-span2. if you are of a certain age, you have one of these on your shelves, a dictionary and you've probably looked upwards and it throughout your lifetime but if you are a little younger, chances are you've done it digitally. mary french is trying to change that. she is the founder and director of something called the dictionary project, mary french, what are you trying to do? >> who want everybody to have a dictionary to instruct the benefits of owning a dictionary we try to get them out in the third grade so they get into the habit of looking up words correctly and understand the meaning and multiple meanings and appreciate our language. >> what is the importance of having this physical book rather than just typing it in your phone? >> i've been doing this for 25 years, before i have had iphones and the technology we are using today. technology is what attracts us to the dictionary, that's where the

and this one is harvard. and and 16 36, you can read some of their declarations at the time. >> as carey was talking, the establishment of harvard and yale they're actually universities that would often produce pastures are ministers to evangelize. and this book right here it comes from cotton and others. it's known as the magnolia christy america. and we have it opened up to this oh page in the book to the development and story of why harvard was established. so, he is talking about that. and the broadside they carry pointed out as well as he graduated was from the 16 hundreds. 1748, i apologize. and it is in line. one of the things that is interesting is that latin, hebrew, greek which carrie was talking about, you valedictorian when the graduated from harvard even today, they give their valedictorian speech in london. this is why that broadside was in the land dialect as well. i mean, this is a couple of hundred years, old its newspaper it is not worth the cotton rag paper. it is important to whoever the o

for the same dorm the same section, harvard is a big law school. u-verse your section is divided up into fourr sections and he ws in my section. overnight legal methods session. everything was putting us to be together at least two sit in the lobby of adorned watch tv. after we finished studying we got married and got engaged must get year in law school. they got married the day after graduation at the harvard methodist church) campus. peter: any suggestions at this from court and will you be teaching in person this fall at harvard and what will you be teaching. annette: yes, i will be back in this year the ball i will be teaching them very excited to get back into things i will be teaching american legal history in the fall. i'm sharing the entry-level hiring committee again so i will have that class, a class in the fall. in spring will be teaching a class in the constitutional law empire and the legal profession which is legal ethics in the w spring hip. peter: and the co-author of the most selected of the patriarchs for. i've taken enough of you

because it was harvard. knew that lots of people who to do things and to government officials harvard is a place that provides a public service and a lot of my colleagues and people who run the faculty of four went back and forth between government and academia. a wall street law firm and transferred to a small agency called the board of corrections which is the oversight agency to the department of corrections and my job or our job was to write the standards for the jails and make sure that they were followed. it was like a tiny agency that had a huge mandate and no money to carry it out. i practiced for seven years either in private practice or government practice as well in new york. >> host: you were known as a historian and a history professor but did you meet a supreme court justice at harvard law school? >> guest: yes i did. robert reid, we met at the association picnic the first week and i thought he was a good-looking guy and we were in the same section. harvard has a big law school and he was in my

maybe our next harvard book store event.anted to do the best to bring all of that together to try to create something that almost wasn't defined by genre or confined by genre, and that attempted to sort of break it apart and break the pieces of each john roth that i love and put it together to create -- john roth -- different sort of literary and historical collage and make it feel like the reader was on this journey with me and that they were not being talked at, preach to others wasn't about tactics or you know, historical text by one or did to be so read like a novel. that's what i tried to do. >> i was wondering if you would mind reading as one last paragraph to close us out? one of the pieces that we haven't discussed is to focus on education. you start out on this project because you were teacher, you are concerned about your student but also you are a student. i think that you are clearly a lifelong learner as well as an artist and as one paragraph on page two, 293 the last paragraph was so beautiful. and i wanted to

it really brings back memories for my earlier time at harvard just to hear the word harvard square mention remember the times i spent wandering around there. and also just to see you it's very meaningful thank you for taking the time. and i will tell you the book was something i had always loved as you have always loved literature and riding in the power of words to stir emotion. i have marveled at that, wondered about that. it is been part of my whole life growing up into adulthood and through clinical practice. always returning to literature. i had always thought it would be very hard to share with the broad public the essence of what we do. there are scientists that are a challenge even to convey what we do to many scientists. but to answer your question, the first challenge was if i want to share some of the excitement of the science pretty want to share some of the important experiences from the clinic. i want to help everybody understand this better, this a moment in time and our progress toward understanding of ourselves. it's going to be very challenging to figure out how to do it.

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and harvard. you did not grow up in this country. noubar: i was born in a root, lebanon of armenian -- beirut, lebanon of armenian parents. david: you were a teenager when you went to canada. noubar: i was extremely fortunate. my family took us as lyrical refugees. david: you went to mcgill university. what did you major in? noubar: chemical engineering. that is the field that first got drawn into biotechnology when the industry started. david: after you graduated you went to m.i.t.? noubar: yes. it was the first time engineers were being trained to do advanced work in biology. the notion was this industry was being born so you need engineers to come up with how to make the products. david: were there a lot of armenians? noubar: i don't think there had been armenians at m.i.t. for many years. i was not surrounded by familiar faces. david: when you got your phd, were you going to go teach? going to industry? what did you decide? noubar: i reflected on it quite a bit. because this was a new field, i have since realized this is how adva

professor rothschild is the professor of history at harvard university. she is director of a joint center for history and economics and professor at paris. her books include economic sentiments, adam smith in the enlightenment published by harvard in 2001. most recently an infinite history, the story of a family in france published by princeton just this year. now a word from our sponsors. today's event is presented by the chicago contemporary theory of the average chicago and cosponsored by the joint center for history and economics at harvard university as well as seminary co-op bookstore and the law letters and society program at the university of chicago. to all of those sponsors of today's event we give our thanks. finally, a brief remark. professor rothschild will offer her comments on jon's book to which jon will respond in turn, and the idea is the conversation will unfold from there. as moderator i will be taking questions from our large audience which you can post in the queue with a box i believe on the zoom platform. i plan to inject some of t

this one is harvard. 1636. you can read some of the declarations at the time. >> as cary was talking, the establishment of harvard and yale, they were universities developed to produce pastors and ministers, to evangelize. this book here comes from cotton mathers, known as mag nelia kristy americana. we have it opened to the story of why harvard was established. so he is talking about that. the broadside is a graduation broadside from 1748, but it is in latin. obviously latin, hebrew, greek which cary was talking about, the valedictorian, even today, give the speech in latin. this is why that is in latin dialect as well. this is a couple hundred years old. it is newspaper. not with cotton rag paper. it was important to whoever the owner was at the time, and then the collector who now has this has preserved it and allowed us to use it as an exhibition artifact to tell the story. the other things you may want to peek at, these small books here, it is a long forgotten textbook known as new england primer. this is

his next stop is another place you might have heard of, harvard law school. 2006 then stayed on as a teaching fellow. andrea was a student of muller 's at harvard's immigration and refugee clinic. >> matt, as i remembered him at harvard, it was incredibly intelligent, hard working, and someone who was really dedicated to the work that we were doing. >> after harvard, muller moved back to california and practiced immigration law insane francisco. but soon, muller's life seemed to go off the rails. in 2013, he lost his privileges to practice law and was eventually disbarred. he got divorced, stop paying rent. in 2014, he filed for bankruptcy. it's not clear what went wrong. his defense lawyer says muller suffers from bipolar disorder. he's an imposing, nearly forgettable. certainly, not someone to fear. he doesn't really fit the profile of your typical guy who is doing a home invasion. >> if you're looking at typical home invasions, it doesn't. but when you're looking at the type of crimes that he's committing, it does more fit the profile. >> it seems to be do

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and harvard. you did not grow up in this country, is that correct? noubar: that's right. born in beirut, lebanon of armenian parents. lived there until the civil war in 1975, and ended up escaping the civil war and growing up in montreal, canada. david: you were a teenager when you went to canada. noubar: i was extremely fortunate. my family, they took us as political refugees. david: you went to mcgill university. what did you major in? noubar: chemical engineering. which was an interesting field at the time, because that is the field that first got drawn into biotechnology when that industry started. david: after you graduated you went to m.i.t.? noubar: yes. i was the first graduate from what was called the bio process engineering center. it was the first time engineers were being trained to do advanced work in biology. the notion was this industry was being born so you need engineers to come up with how to make the products. that's how i got involved. david: were there a lot of armenians? noubar: [laughter] i don't think there had been armenians at m.i.t. for many yea

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