Youre welcome to our event series. Before i start, i want to mention real quick, if you have questions tonight, you ask us in the chat box or comments on the youtube page, and well get to as many as we can. If youre interested in purchasing the book, and i hope that you do, you can find it at most major retailers, but we like to point people toward bookshop. Org where you can find just about any book youre looking for and support independent booksellers across the country. Again, thats bookshop. Org. Please give them a look. I mentioned to someone the other day that i was reading the senates words in preparation for the event tonight, and they said, oh, thats the new faulkner biography. I said, well, you got the faulkner part right. The best way i can describe this book is equal parts. Literary history, social commentary and literary criticism. I think it will band to either of those subjects. What the book really did for me was force me to give serious thought on where faulkner stands
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Jim good afternoon. And i say that with some trepidation, because our audience is national and international. So, good morning to some of you and good evening to some of you. I am jim grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association. And this is an initial experiment in something that we are likely to call history behind the headlines. The aha considers Historical Context and perspective essential to decisionmaking in public culture and especially in all aspects of public policy. The aha is a membershipsupported organization, just a reminder. One has to say these things, anybody who watches Public Television or listens to public radio is ready for this. If you would like to become a member and support this type of content, membership links are located in the chat on zoom and in the comments on facebook live. I want to give an especially grateful thankful to History Channel for their generous sponsorship of this webinar. Lets get started. It is an honor to introdu
The aggressive removal of protesters early today starts right now good Tuesday Morning im phillip mena america has gone from coronavirus lockdowns to city wide curfews protesters are demanding Justice Police custody during the day most of these have been peaceful with diverse groups coming together an emotional moment caught on camera as the top member of the force embracing with protesters. Police chief stepped into the crowd to diffuse the situation meanwhile in seattle, protesters and officers clashing at a barricade the police appeared to use flash bangs to disperse the crowd. And in dallas, protesters marching across a bridge found themselves trapped by police on both sides hundreds of arrests were made and protesters were loaded on to two waiting shuttle buses. The world famous macys flag ship store in the square reporter new yorks mayor changed course in the last minute and ordered a curfew as the city geared up for another night of huge protests new yorks police also geared up
Celebrate these wonderful awards. In the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation, certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around, and probably among the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than they ceremony since zoom is not a great place to exchange awards and the like. So were going to have a series of conversations with our four winners, and then ill when were done well take your questions in chat. And well try to wrap up in an hour, following the zoom practice not leaving you in front of your computer screen for to long especially this time of day. As we get started, for those who may be knew to the awards and to the legacy that they honor, we have a short video about J Anthony Luka ss prizes. People talk but book writing, they almost always talk but the process of writing. Sitting there by the keyboard, and writing it dont and it is in many resp