Making Room for Conscience
This item is part of the Alumni Weekend 2007 collection of the Alumni Office. To view more media from the Alumni Office, please visit the Alumni Office video page. The Abolition of the Slave Trade in America and Britain. Internationally-renowned historian Professor Simon Schama was an undergraduate, and later Fellow, at Christ’s College, Cambridge before becoming Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Brasenose College, Oxford. He then spent 13 years as professor at Harvard and is currently Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University in New York, where he specialises in European cultural and environmental history and the history of art. Professor Schama is well known for his award-winning books including Landscape and Memory, Dead Certainties, Rembrandt’s Eyes and Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution. He has also written and presented the BBC documentary series A History of Britain, The Power of Art, and Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, the little-known history of thousands of African-American slaves who fought for the British in the American War of Independence. Since 1995, he has been art and culture critic for The New Yorker and essayist for The Guardian, and was made a CBE in the 2001 New Year’s Honours list.
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From voaspecialenglish.com | http A German immigrant family opened a wood-turning business on the Ohio River in 1856. JF Hillerich wanted to manufacture traditional products, like butter churns. His son Bud, a sports lover, wanted to make baseball bats. Today, the company, now called Hillerich and Bradsby, is world famous. PJ Shelley works at its headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky. PJ SHELLEY: “We make 2500 bats a day, on average. During peak production, around spring training time, we can make as many as 5000 bats a day. We make 1.8 million wood bats here every year. Fortunately for us, the young son prevailed and we’re not making butter churns any longer.” Hillerich and Bradsby makes the Louisville Slugger, a favorite of baseball players for more than a century. Baseball great Jackie Robinson used this bat. PJ SHELLEY: “When people think of baseball bats or especially, certainly wood baseball bats, they’re thinking of a Louisville Slugger.” The name Louisville Slugger has appeared in books, movies and popular music. Carrie Underwood sings of hitting a boyfriend’s car with one in her song “Before He Cheats.” Danny Luckett has worked at Hillerich and Bradsby for 40 years. In the past, the company could produce a hand-made bat in 15 minutes. With computers, it now takes only a few seconds. Every bat must pass Luckett’s inspection before it leaves the factory. The company keeps 9000 copies of its most famous bats. DANNY LUCKETT: “Well, yeah, right here in hand’s reach is …
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