Population of 112,000 and has become a popular Tourist Destination with people looking to experience the citys history and nearby beaches. With the help of our Charter Communications Cable Partners for the next 90 minutes, we learn about the cities history from local authors. We begin with author chris pineville on fort anderson in the battle for wilmington during the civil war. I rolling thunder. [cheering] [applause] we are standing on the parapet of fort anderson. It was the largest confederate fort in the lowercase fear in the interior, that part of the western land approaches and the river approaches to the seaport of wilmington. The fourth was initially started in march 1862, construction ongoing throughout the war. Are still working on it in febrry 1865. The fort was built on top of the old seaport. Which was the leading seaport of the river in colonial times, in fact the first enduring settlement on the Cape Fear River. After the american revolution, it faded into oblivion. The
Population of 112,000 and has become a popular Tourist Destination with people looking to experience the citys history and nearby beaches. With the help of our Charter Communications Cable Partners for the next 90 minutes, we learn about the cities history from local authors. We begin with author chris pineville on fort anderson in the battle for wilmington during the civil war. I rolling thunder. [cheering] [applause] we are standing on the parapet of fort anderson. It was the largest confederate fort in the lowercase fear in the interior, that part of the western land approaches and the river approaches to the seaport of wilmington. The fourth was initially started in march 1862, construction ongoing throughout the war. Are still working on it in febrry 1865. The fort was built on top of the old seaport. Which was the leading seaport of the river in colonial times, in fact the first enduring settlement on the Cape Fear River. After the american revolution, it faded into oblivion. The
Always here that in the White Community took theres a sort of a no pun intended, but whitewashing the past. They thought it was always going to be, i think one radio posted you cant put that behind you if youll put in front of you first. In 1898, wilmington chief a status, you have to understand this was a huge Place Holding area for the civil war because of the river which was back there a lot of block away. All the plantations in North Carolina on the river so the roanoke , poughkeepsie river, huge concentration of 330,000 slaves in North Carolina in 1860 were here in the river valley so there was always a fear of an uprising, a fear of terrible nightmare if you will of the land of the white century and had very repressive laws and both free blacks and slaves, all in this. And well sherman came in from the north and south, he had liberated 25,000 enslaved blacks, he got to the head of navigation to the Cape Fear River in fayetteville and you put all those people on flagpoles and brou
Important things that literature can do, is a country something you think you know from an entirely different perspective and deepen the way you think about it. Im standing in the North Carolina room of the New Hanover County library were my brain Jennifer Dorn has pulled up some pieces that help tell the story of North Carolinas history. We are kind of unique as a special collections because special collections are usually kind of hard to access if you went to university or to a historical society, but because were in a public library, with open to anyone pick u if anyone wants to use our materials they just come in, we asked him to read over all rules and fill out a registration card and then they can use the materials. The North Carolina room is a realm and the new Hanover Public library where we focus on materials that have to do with North Carolina. There are books about biology, rivers, geography of North Carolina. Our special collections and archives room, the North Carolina ren
Welcome to the library of congress. Im john kohl, director of the center in the book for the library of congress. I was talking to our speaker earlier tonight and described what i was doing. She said, you have a wonderful job. You promote books and reading. You live with books. And you are involved with the study of books. And i said, thats true. We also promote books through events such as tonights. This is part of our books and beyond author series. Its where we focus on authors who have written new books that have Something Special to do with the library of congress. And in this case, as our speaker will tell you, there is a direct connection with the library and with an archive. And when i wrote the press release, i didnt really realize the extent of the collection that we have that supports this particular book. We have the archive not just the recordings for Mary Margaret mcbride. You will hear about that tonight from our speaker. Susan is a special friend of the library of congr