Good evening, good evening. First of all thank you for coming out on this rainy evening, i know its a challenge but i think it will be well worth your time to be here this evening for this discussion. It is my pleasure to welcome you to our program entitled historically speaking, we return fading, world war one and the shaping of the modern black identity. Published by story in books, this is a collection of essays that chronicles the experiences of men and women who served the country on the battlefield, as well as on the home front. And their struggles for civil rights. One of the main things we learned this evening is that while the Civil Rights Movement is decades away, world war i established important questions about citizenship that paved the way towards future progress. We are fortunate to be joined tonight by kinshasha holman, the images are very powerful. They are of americans on the home front. It also gives us a different look at African Americans when they return from the
Whiskey rebellion and foufoung finance. He is a contributor to a recent uponly case, historians on hamilton. Hes penned many essays and articles that you can read in places like the atlantic monthly, the new york times, boston review, but none more important than our own magazine, financial history. You can find that magazine at moaf. Org, American Museum of American Finance. So, it should be no surprise that the topic of williams next book is Alexander Hamilton. Its my pleasure to introduce him, william hogland. Thanks a lot. I know the accost ickes in here boom a little bit. Can anyone hear me . Okay, thank you. Thats good to know. I think some of you know that maybe its a little bit im a little bit of a fish out of water here. I would like to point out that the museum of American Finance has had mess speak this , this third time. My first talk on Alexander Hamilton was sponsored by the museum. For my very first book, and that was back in 2006. So its i think some of you already now
National debt. The Alexander Hamilton society and museum of finance host this. Welcome, as the commemoration of Alexander Hamilton continues. I am the president of the American Museum on american finance. Our partner today is the Alexander Hamilton awareness society, an organization that you turn to for all things hamiltonian. We welcome their leadership, rand, mariana and tom, nicole, sergio, as well as friends of the museum, doug hamilton, dan simon, susie pock in the house. Mike newton, our founder and former board chair, john herzog. And seth caller has brought some amazing original hamilton documents you should check out afterwards. And of course the cspan audience. Now some 20 years ago our board chair professor Richard Sylla wrote me a noke that started with the words a stroke of luc. He had been introduced to a sunni buffalo ph. D. Candidate who was very interested in Alexander Hamilton and early American Financial history. You have to remember, this is well before the show, al
The wilson quarterly. And on the oped opinion and book review pages of the boston globe. He the New York Times, usa today and the washington post. He lives in manassas virginia. Please give a warm savannah welcome to robert wilson. [applause] thank you. I appreciate that introduction. Im hoping your app works a lot better than the app that was done for the iowa caucuses. [laughing] i trust it will. Youre probably actually tested it. And thanks to all of you for coming this morning on this cold morning. Its very pleasant to see soo many of you here. Its very pleasant to see cspan here and what you think cspan for all that does to support book culture in america. I would be tempted to say normally what remains of book culture in america, but on a day like today its very easy to be optimistic about the state of books. Books. I love being in savannah. My wife martha and i come here as often as we can and we live outside washington dc. And we have a in the panhandle of florida. We used to d
Robert wilson is with us today courtesy of paul and heather hamilton. Bob is the author of Matthew Brady, portraits of a nation and the explorer king, a biography of Clarence King. He is the editor of the american scholar, former editor of preservation and the founding literary editor of civilization. A former book editor and columnist for u. S. Today and a former editor at the Washington Post book world. His essays reviews and fiction have appeared in numerous publications, including the american scholar, the american short fiction, the atlantic monthly, the new republic and the smithsonian, Washington Post magazine and the wilson quarterly. And on the oped opinion and book review pages of the boston globe. The New York Times, u. S. Today and the Washington Post. He lives in manassas, virginia. Please give a warm savannah welcome to robert wilson. [applause] thank you, chris. I appreciate that introduction. Im hoping your app works better than the app that was done for. He Iowa Caucus