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SUMMARY:Waging A Good War
DESCRIPTION:In Mississippi\, it used to be illegal to teach Black students their constitutional rights. Thomas E. Ricks’ new book\, Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement\, 1954-1968\, offers a new perspective on the American civil rights movement\, depicting it as highly disciplined and carefully planned\, with a focus not on “passive resistance\,” but on confrontational nonviolence\, a much more aggressive stance.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Thomas E. Ricks\n\n\n\nThomas Ricks is a writer and the military history columnist for The New York Times Book Review. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008. Until the end of 1999\, he had the same beat at the Wall Street Journal\, where he was a reporter for 17 years. He reported on U.S. military activities in Somalia\, Haiti\, Korea\, Bosnia\, Kosovo\, Macedonia\, Kuwait\,Turkey\, Afghanistan\, and Iraq. He is the author of eight books. His best known is Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq\, 2003-05\, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/waging-a-good-war/
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SUMMARY:"Let Truth Have Fair Play": Elihu Palmer's Struggle for Religious Freedom
DESCRIPTION:In this First Amendment speaker series event\, Professor Kirsten Fischer will discuss her new book\, American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation. Palmer was a secular activist in early America that pushed for free speech and religious freedom. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Kirsten Fischer\n\n\n\nKirsten Fischer is a professor of history at the University of Minnesota. She recently wrote American Freethinker: Elihu Palmer and the Struggle for Religious Freedom in the New Nation. Published by the University of Pennsylvania in 2021\, the book is a biography of a once-notorious public speaker who attacked Christianity and pushed for freedom of speech. She is also known for her book Suspect Relations: Sex\, Race\, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina (Cornell\, 2002)\, which shows the development of racial thinking in a slave society. Fischer is an award-winning teacher and the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships. She has presented her work in France\, Italy\, Germany\, and Canada. She was hosted for two years at the University of Heidelberg’s Center for American Studies\, once as a Fulbright scholar.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Zoom Event
URL:https://firstamendmentmuseum.org/event/let-truth-have-fair-play-elihu-palmers-struggle-for-religious-freedom/
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