if you were to look at the public narrative, the narrative you would find in newspapers and commemorative pamphlets in public pronouncements, the sentiments expressed during this period were very much part of what david white called the reconciliationest's memory of the war. to quote the pennsylvania evening telegraph, there can be no unworthy sectionalism. no little memories in the prospect with a united country, with a spirit of patriotism pervading the length and breadth of us, the american public of today is not the same as it was. okay, so while we talk tonight, i want you to think about the language being used. and we acan come back to some o it, but there can be no unworthy sectionalism and what that might tell us. as you probably all know, in 1913, union and confederate veterans re-enacted the charge of the battle of gettysburg. this is a photograph of union and confederate veterans shaking hands across the wall at the top of the hill. how many of you have been to gettysburg? so you know the wall. you can see this. i don't think as historians we should underestimate the importance

however, the narrative is different. so that's why if we're going to go after the agencies who need the support of the american public, let a's do it in a way

narrative what is putin up to these putin want to revive the soviet empire and that's the standard narrative now of course if you don't want to hear that and if you want to hear a much much better and a much more balanced account of what was going on in the ukraine there were other sources however what was important was what was happening in those mainstream outlets because they were shaping policy they were the ones that were getting their message across to the policymakers on the policy makers were listening to them the policymakers were not listening to the alternative universe in the alternative. is ok asif it seems to me in the beginning today i think ok go ahead any job in paris go ahead jump in. just just a very quick point on that for example the mainstream narrative about the need. going intervene in syria over the last few years was being pushed to go towards intervention and for example u.k. politicians were keen to follow that narrative however there was so much distrust in the mainstream media is next with around syria after what happened in iraq and after what had happened in l

because it does -- radical narratives of the war look like other radical narratives from elsewhere. there are certainly people who write them. there are communist historians writing history of the period.

whether or not the public to narrative moves further whether or not private narrative moves i furthern to question. what happens in the bicentennial?things. i don't know but i think it wilg be shaped by two things.the one is the changing diversity os the country. t because it is already the case that huge numbers of americans have no familial tie, even distantly, to the civil war. and the other is, i'm not sure that the political lessons of s the civil war will translate as well in 50 years. but i'm not sure. but let's open it up to you guys. what do you think it will look like in 50 years?s look i assure you, dr. warshower and i will have nothing to do with it. yeah, matt?will >> i don't want to make it all t political in a powerful thing that is not memory but as the as demographics of the country change i think the memory is going to shift. so will you now -- i forget whan year but it's will be long be before the 200th anniversary you will have where white is not going to be a clear majority in this country.ng to i think that will probably in h affect how the memory of the wal is p

but then the neoconservative narrative is that well yes the after great invasion very successful invasion there was a problem with the implementation of the occupation but then came the surge then came near victory and then obama screwed it all up by withdrawing the troops so there's seem to be able to enforce these narratives even when they don't rematch up with any factual reality but they they have enough bases and they have enough way of influencing the whole the whole way washington things so you get this very alice in wonderland effect and so and they are able to make everything fit into one of their narratives for instance the catastrophe in syria is now being blamed even though the us side is supporting with working with the saudis and others helped create this problem in syria where these extremist became very powerful as rebel forces some of the isis group and for a front the the narrative is that if obama had only sent in more military support for the rebels earlier then it would have worked out fine so there's always a way to spin this and i think what we've seen is as we've s

salomon north america dedicated his narrative to. beecher stowe, so he was very familiar with her novel and the impact of her novel. it makes you wonder if some of these tropes, the separation of family, the abuse of slave women, and the cruel and sadistic owners, may have been influenced in some part. not to say he did not experience this, but it makes you wonder how many elements that come through in stowe's novel a week before. so that is just an observation. i will leave it at that, and turn it over to catherine. [applause] >> thank you. i want to thank the organizers of this panel. for this opportunity to reflect. when i first began my work on the plantation south over 40 years ago, looking at the role of plantation mistresses, one of my mentors insisted that i go see, and accompanied me, to see the film "mandingo" in times square in 1975, the year that was a top 10 box office hit. the scholar later pointed out to me a billboard in times square featuring an escort service -- so certainly, i was made aware of the way in which the

because it does -- radical narratives of the war look like other radical narratives from elsewhere. there are certainly people who write them. there are communist historians writing history of the period. but the kind of overall v much about unity, as you say. very much. john? >> it's not really in answer per se to your question, but my own research and stuff for classes, i have found soviet propaganda, crumbling statue of liberty, and the kkk being like, is this freedom, is this equality. and so it was something that -- american politicians are going to see it, and i'm sure it definitely is something they thought about. >> you can see where the soviets would use it as fodder as their own propaganda. >> there's the cartoon that pops up where there's a white hand playing with a black child. two months before gettysburg, before the centennial. >> okay. so let me jump forward to the 150th, because that's where we are now. you may have all noticed there is a connecticut sesquicentennial commemoration. i'm not sure you see him, but dr. warshower is in here somewhere. he is there. is he i

understand, reverend, that narrative probably exists. i can't imagine a circumstance that the narrative doesn't exist. what's going on is that because there are concurrent investigations going on right now and a grand jury that's going on right now, thatter in tif is in use. that information is in use. >> but, jim, the narrative may be in use. but when you do an incident report, as you just said that dayer or the day after, no one knows a grand jury, no one knows -- nobody knows any of that's coming. where is the incident report? you would want someone in the investigation to say this is what they said immediately. this is what they said while they were picking up shells. this is what they said if the officer did go to the hospital. you can't say we knew in our crystal ball that the attorney general would call a parallel investigation, jim. so where is the immediate incident report that has no incidents? >> i totally agree with that, reverend al. paul is correct. he's speaking from the grand jury aspect and the legal aspect. police chief

in that, you have people who come up with a narrative for the campaign and the narrative, you as to hold and protect that well as you can and your opponent is trying to pull you off and you are trying to stick to it. within that comes a reputation of a candidate or a sleigh. it is usually a director, all these people working on it there it i do not think it comes down to one person. it comes down to a collection of people trying to implement a strategy. >> no campaign is perfect. one example is what happened to senator john walsh, charged with wager is him, explained the mistakes -- explain the crisis is one where i'm coming from montana, and i is john walshr obviously made a huge mistake, the plagiarism. other politicians have plagiarized. was theyhat happened did not answer within the brand. they do not answer within the personality. first, they said they did not do it, they did not know about it, and i think really the brand was the value for the soldiers, straightforward. i would have liked to have seen, born and raised in that state, i think of john walsh -- john apologize, id, i le

smith" in that i see the fiction that is at the heart of this narrative. this is a work of historical fiction. i don't think anybody should be shocked by that and i don't mean it as an insult but i wanted to talk about that today and sort of diagram it for you. the fictions are very sweeping. even the spoiler alert. the amendment did pass and slavery was abolished. all of that is true. to get there from the opening of the movie they had to arrange a lot of movies. i'll go through that now. you should be aware it is part of my effort to help teach this movie and i think we should teach it and study it and use it. i've created an unofficial guide, teacher's guide to the movie that's part of something we call dickinson college the house divided project which i lead, the emancipation digital classroom. so if you google the emancipation digital classroom you will be able to see an unofficial teacher's guide to lincoln that includes links to everything i'm about to talk about with primary sources and images and even links to the script so you can explore this is

because it does -- radical narratives of the war look like other radical narratives from elsewhere.re are certainly people who write them. there are communist historians writing history of the period. but the kind of overall narrative is very much about unity, as you say. very much. john? >> it's not really in answer per se to your question, but my own research and stuff for classes, i have found soviet propaganda, crumbling statue of liberty, and the kkk being like, is this freedom, is this equality. and so it was something that -- american politicians are going to see it, and i'm sure it definitely is something they thought about. >> you can see where the soviets would use it as fodder as their own propaganda. >> there's the cartoon that pops up where there's a white hand playing with a black child. two months before gettysburg, before the centennial. >> okay. so let me jump forward to the 150th, because that's where we are now. you may have all noticed there is a connecticut sesquicentennial commemoration. it would be difficult not to. i'm not sure you see him, but dr. warshower

israeli government may be losing control of the media and narrative beyond its borders. but by banning all israelis including journalists from going to gaza, it effectively controls much of what israelis see and read in their own media about the number of tirrists killed and tunnels uncovered. >> the same army they have served in, israeli audiences, are not well served. palestinians and the journalists in gaza live in another world. theirs is a different story. >> the fact that we are palestinians covering usually palestine and that we have family, relatives and neighbors here is a double edged sword. it motivates us because our coverage is related to our families and neighbors when they are targeted other their homes are hit with misfires. i want to say the palestinian journalists can combine being a palestinian and working in the media. i am covering the conflict. i am telling you i am trying to be professional as much as i can. we palestinians here should learn the language and work ourselves to the international media because we are part of the story. we know what's

very different narratives.posed. >> right. >> what are the people to think about this? >> well i think, sean, the biggest issue with this is who set the narrative. when you look at how the media covered it and how everybody sort of led -- they profered the idea that michael brown was a choir boy, he was a good kid on his way to college, meaning he had a future. then all of a sudden it's very difficult to tear that narrative down. and i think the left got in front of this thing before the other folks. if you recall, you couldn't say anything against michael brown because if you did you wanted him dead. >> or more than that. remember, if anyone mentioned the videotape. >> sure. >> of him really, i mean, shockingly strong arming this poor store clerk and pushing him into the potato chip rack and coming back like this at the guy. i mean, that's pretty intimidat. juan williams, you know johnson said they're minding their own business, and and i think it goes to the mind set of what they were thinking about seeing an

screen, even solon northrop counted among the great narratives but doesn't involve an escape.his release comes from machinations and legal dealings and brad pitt sets all this in motion and we never see any of it on-screen so the drama has to come from elsewhere. not much drama in the wagon comes up, papers shown to the owner and the gets in and drives off to freedom. the only instances we get of slave escape are those involving women. one is that in "beloved," a flashback seth in crossing the -- really harrowing scene, crossing the ohio river or getting ready to cross the ohio river she actually gives birth to the baby girl she will subsequently kill when slave catchers are out to get her. the other, the one i mentioned already, the "journey of august king" the entire narrative is driven by this escape, this manhunt, and even so typically hollywood, you get the name of the male protagonist, "the journey of august king" rather than the slave's name. it's very much her journey as well despite the fact in real life there are far fewer women that escape or escape alone than there

but the heart of the movie's narrative opens with him describing a dream to his wife.d in that description of the dream, you realize in early january of 1865 that he is paringing to push for an abolition amendment to the constitution during the lame duck session of congress, and this is a shock. mary lincoln opposes this. you'll waste your popularity, she warns him. when he explains this to wayne n seward and to congressman james ashley, the ostensible author on capitol hill, they're worried and shocked. this is a dramatic and sort of surprising move.re that's all fiction. now, you know, the reintroduction of the amendment hatt had been defeated the previous spring is real, but it was all telegraphed out in the open. this is not a surprise and it's. not something that lincoln comes up with in a way that was shocking to people.elp i mean, in fact, you know, in his annual message in december n of 1864 after he won that sweeping reelection victory, hen telegraphed it to the public and boasted about it, you might say.th the i'm reading now from that annual message. this is

there's a whole different narrative that goes on that we don't see in the film. what about ellen? we talked about how she tells her husband what to do. what's her role in it? we done see much her all in the movie. keh kendall. >> she's pious. she's the care taker. she's what scarlet is not, motherly. it's kind of -- she could also be the foil to scarlet. the southern model for womanhood. >> she's the idealize tdidealiz. she's everywhere. she helps out with the ill in the neighborhood. she holds the family in the plantation to a higher level of morality. the most elite women couldn't handle all of the things and spent most of their lives fainting. she may have depicted the ideal but not the reality. i think the general war time experience of the ohara's was not out of the recommend of possibility. the way that ellen dies of disease and her death forces her to take on more responsibilities. >> we talk little scarlet stepping outside of the boundaries of gender roles at the time. it is possible that she could have transformed from southern bell to overpower dominate force. certainly

it seems like the media narrative in the can kind of commentary narrative in the united states right now is that by pushing the sunnis out of government alienating sunni regions and depriving them of resources and just a whole lot of stupid measures that were you know hyper amplification of paul bremer and and this is secretary defense back in the day kicking out the bath party that maliki has screwed things up and that if maliki just goes and somebody else comes in who has some reasonable level of intelligence they will immediately figure out we have to bring the sunnis back in and reunite this country and the great hope for that is apparently mr a body and in fact president obama called him today which you know and president obama has been refused to talk to mr maliki so what do you think about that narrative and the possibility of that reality well i think it would be a mistake delusional to think that the point new prime minister is going to resolve all of iraq's problems iraq's problems come a complex. very deep in many ways. problems york city area you have ethnic problems you

i came to learn neither narrative was the whole story. this is what i learned to do in six years of graduate school. it is more complicated than that. that is what you get to see with a ph.d. how did he achieve this extraordinary comeback? i notice the deception narrative and the extraordinary new footage of home movies shot boy a professional baseball player, kept from his family for decades, showing fdr walking at a baseball stadium. i was tearing my hair out listening to the reporters describe what this was about and this guy said fdr suffered from polio. a fact that the secret service tried to hide from the public. you will see why i was tearing my hair out over a statement like that. i believe roosevelt did three crucial things in order to become elected president in spite of the fact he had polio. the first thing is he redefined his problem. at first he thought it was a physical problem and that the he had to recover the use of his legs fullly to go back into the politics. -- fully -- for four years he pursued a solution to that pro

we heard little from the police side of the narrative. what he heard there was a struggle in the police cruiser. we heard there was an attempt to grab a weapon. the officer was treated to injuries to his face suggesting there was a violent conne confrontation before the shooting. the overwhelming narrative has been this young man was shot in cold blood. as the police chief comes here to disclose the identity of this individual, if he starts to back up some of the police motivation for what happened -- that is the focus of the story here today as everybody watching these microphones to see when the police chief will step up and what exactly he will say, martha. martha: word is this name has been out there in the local community, mike. i don't know what you do or don't know about that or if that's even true. what is the security situation? have you heard anything about that and how this person will be protected? this is going to open obviously a whole new can of worms. >> reporter: as far as the names that get out, it seems to be the way th

this narrative about you know the benefit haven't property owner this narrative of sharing it is absolutely ridiculous. we're seeing and absolute ridiculous amateur of evictions over the last 3 years i'm not seeing the working class communities and this narrative about air b and b b and b stands for benefit eventual and benefit eventual i'm not seeking a benefit convenience the board president of the hotel we stand for low income housing and dignity formal seniors the fact those folks have gotten away with not paying their taxes share that share the 50 million you've been beating the city out of share that. thank you (clapping.) high ami i've been a resident of san francisco for over 25 years i reside in district 10 i've served with a nonprofit agency with women inc. providing survivors help from domestic violence i'm an artist and traveler i practice bud studying for my future here and broad i've been a guest of many people around the world in their homes. i'm living my life as an anyone ethics i was able to secure housing in an expensive city i've worked with any landlord to have long-ter

she talked about a narrative in peace and prosperity, that is hardly a narrative. >> it is week when her planned strategy was peace and prosperity. that's everybody's narrative. she has to take the risk. between john f. kennedy and barack obama, something like 60 u.s. senators ran for president and they were zero for 60. they think it's because they have to take tough votes but the real reason is because they were not risk takers. they thought the step was a small one and they could just take small ones to get there but it's a big step and you have to take a risk. i think it will be secretary clinton to take a risk to show us something new so she does not seem like the 1990's were the past eight years so she does seem like something new. taking a risk when you have the whole army behind you takes a lot of guts. maybe she will do it it it takes not only got better quality of come to appreciate more and more, that i find more and more rare, which his imagination. it will take imagination to present herself as something new. we're sick of where we are but here is an experienced person o

we will find out his narrative.ut i think we should be careful to rush to accept josies narrative as an eyewitness, which she is not. >> that's certainly an important point, and there are a number of eyewitnesss who we have heard from. i want to get your take areeve rah, we have to take a quick break. protests continuing right behind me. it's really grown significantly, i should say, really in the last 30 minutes or so. several hundred people now marching through the streets, calling for justice for michael brown. calls which we have heard all throughout the day, this is certainly the largest crowd that we have seen thus far. i would estimate 400 or so people, maybe that many in this crowd right now, we will see how things develop. you'll see they're moving. police, there's not a curfew in effect. police are saying people are not allowed to standstill and protest, that they have to keep moving, we've seen police being forceful in moving people along throughout the day. we'll take a short break more from our panel ah

smith" in that i see the fiction that is at the heart of this narrative. this is a work of historical fiction. i don't think anybody should be shocked by that and i don't mean it as an insult but i wanted to talk about that today and sort of diagram it for you. the fictions are very sweeping. even the spoiler alert. the amendment did pass and slavery was abolished. all of that is true. to get there from the opening of the movie they had to arrange a lot of movies. i'll go through that now. you should be aware it is part of my effort to help teach this movie and i think we should teach it and study it and use it. i've created an unofficial guide, teacher's guide to the movie that's part of something we call dickinson college the house divided project which i lead, the emancipation digital classroom. so if you google the emancipation digital classroom you will be able to see an unofficial teacher's guide to lincoln that includes links to everything i'm about to talk about with primary sources and images and even links to the script so you can explore this is

it's pretty clear that the crater itself is the dominate narrative is a narrative of reconciliation between white northerners and white southerners. this is a place they are going to come and sort of shake hands over the bloody chasm but it's not a place that black americans visit. i found very little evidence that black virginians here in petersberg and elsewhere really spent much time on the battlefield. >> i got one question. i work with a couple of black guys. both of them are in their 60s now. they've never heard of the crater. they knew who crater today was. they said no, they had never heard of it because they were never taught it in school. they were never taught anything about the civil war in the black schools in the 50s and 60s. >> yeah. there are a number of very good sources that i could point you to. in the 1960s especially, the state of virginia actually ordered their textbooks to be revised and distributed throughout the state. the textbooks were authored and written in a way that was very much the reflection of the civil rights movement. if you actually look at the textbook

the contraband scenesment i would say the arc of the film's narrative does create problems. and how many of us would like our manuscript to go before a focus group. and if you think that's what a peer reviewed man ewe manuscript is, it's a much more difficult ideal. i think all of the discussion of lincoln is mr interpretations of the complexities of race. i must confess social media has also had a powerful influence on me when i found a facebook conversation with two scholars. i was enlightened and enraged. a lively fashion that merits tarrantino's film. taking it at face value. i found the 3d distracting chlts but the narrative was compelling in that slave holders being portrayed as blood suckers who drained the life out of enslaved persons to promote their unholy empire struck a cord. on balance, i was not taken with tarrantio's. i was astonished. by those of us that know the film, it's a frame by frame, freakish homage. german slave catcher. german-speaking concubine, the powerful drive of couples to reunite. i could go on and on, but these would be measured against the

and the narrative, i hate that word as if there is a nazi narrative of the holocaust and the jewish narrative. it's really interesting. must they be disarmed? i know what you're whispering. they are trying to press you. [laughter] the first obvious question is who started the hostilities. in 2008 and 2009 the operation led. there was a cease-fire in june. if you look at the terrorism center publication they said hamas was careful to respect the cease-fire. november 4 the election day in the united states when attention was riveted to the u.s. presidential election with barack obama base of every competent taking advantage of the gifts november 4, 2008 israel invades and kills 6,000 militants from hamas and that's when the whole thing starts to fall apart. it was israel that broke the cease-fire. that cease-fire agreement said in 2008 and 2009 excuse me, junior, 20 of eight that cease-fire said the blockade was supposed to be lifted. wasn't gifted? don't swear in the first massacre, who initiated the conflict. israel broke the cease-fire. they didn't abide by the confines of the cease-fire. so