August 24, 2011
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The first Chautauquans arrived for Tuesday’s 2 p.m. Interfaith Lecture almost two hours early, said Maureen Rovegno. By 1:30 p.m., the seats were packed for “Storm on the Horizon,” a character-interpretation by members of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Rovegno, the assistant director of the Department of Religion, did not seem surprised by the large turnout, though. When other members of the Foundation performed at Chautauqua in 2009, the event was just as popular.
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August 23, 2011
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When Richard Josey was 10 years old, Rex Ellis, a deacon at Josey’s church, encouraged him to get involved with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation as a child actor-interpreter.
Fifteen years later, Josey and Ellis both are actor-interpreters and will perform together at Chautauqua. At 2 p.m. today in the Hall of Philosophy, Josey will take the form of Peter, an enslaved man during the Civil War. In this performance, “Promises of Freedom,” Josey has the star role. But 10 other members of Colonial Williamsburg also will give their reflections of slavery as interpreters of other enslaved people.
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August 23, 2011
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Chances are most Chautauquans learned about the Civil War in a traditional classroom setting, with textbooks and lectures and written homework. In 1993, as the Internet was beginning to take off, Ed Ayers began a digital history project, The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, that offered a new vehicle for a continued education.
Projects like these utilize modern technology to engage in the Civil War with a fresh perspective, Ayers said.
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August 23, 2011
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The country is recovering from a long bout of historical amnesia when it comes to the Civil War, Clement Price said in his lecture at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday in the Amphitheater.
Price, professor of history and director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., and a Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor, said the purpose of his lecture, “Break Every Yoke, Let the Oppressed Go Free!” was to impress upon his audience the importance of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, which takes place this year.
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August 23, 2011
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To prepare the audience for this week’s Interfaith Lecture Series on the Civil War and human rights, Michael Klarman cleared some misconceptions, laid the groundwork for the week and rooted people’s minds in constitutional history.
During Monday’s lecture, the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, director of the Department of Religion, introduced the multi-degree-holding Harvard law professor to an audience that had just been warned against saving seats in the packed Hall of Philosophy.
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August 22, 2011
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More than 20 members of Colonial Williamsburg will visit Chautauqua this week as character-interpreters of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Clay and other influential people from the Civil War era.
At 2 p.m. today and Wednesday in the Hall of Philosophy, actor-interpreters from Colonial Williamsburg will perform interpretations of speeches and moments in history that reflect America’s struggle through slavery and the Civil War, and how these events still influence the present.
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August 22, 2011
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“Break Every Yoke, Let the Oppressed Go Free!” is the title for the 10:45 a.m. lecture today at the Amphitheater given by Clement Price during this week’s theme, “The Path to the Civil War.”
Price is a professor of history and director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J., and a Board of Governors Distinguished Service Professor.
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August 22, 2011
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Answering the question of why the South seceded is not a major historical conundrum, historian Gordon S. Wood said in his lecture at 10:45 a.m. Monday in the Amphitheater. The more difficult question, he said, is why the North cared.
“Why was the North willing to go to war to preserve the Union?” Wood asked to begin his lecture.
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August 21, 2011
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One hundred and fifty years ago, the Civil War tore apart North and South. For Gordon S. Wood, an author and lifelong scholar of the American Revolution, it had been a long time coming.
He will be the first speaker for this week’s theme of “The Path to the Civil War,” and at 10:45 a.m. today in the Amphitheater, he will lecture on “The Revolutionary Origins of the Civil War.”
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August 21, 2011
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Near the beginning of the Declaration of Independence, there are seven words that all Americans probably know by heart — “We hold these truths to be self-evident.”
The theme for this week’s Interfaith Lecture Series, which takes a modern-day look at civil rights, is exactly these seven words. But the week opens with a discussion of Constitutional history and how this document, like the Declaration of Independence, provides historical context for present-day problems.
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Through his photography, Reza ‘shakes the hearts of people’
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138th assembly draws to close with Becker’s Sunday address
Hillcrest Concert Band brings worldly program to Amp
Holbert to preach on season’s final Sunday
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