Blow you off and keep going. He lives in his own world. I think people take his aloofness for rudeness which is not that at all. He used to be a darius outgoing guy and then had a traumatic brain brain injury and it changed his body. I think its evolved and you see in the fall and that my wife is funny, she read this book and she said i finally like him. He reached his humanity level. At the core. It took me four books to get there but i like complicated guys and hes complicated. Host thank you for being with us for our indepth program and in this special series we sit with authors for three hours talking about their life in their work. David baldacci will spend the time with us today and we hope very much for both of us as we enjoy your interaction that you will be a part of the conversation. As we continue along here we put the phone numbers on the screen and our facebook and twitter handles so you can join in on the conversation and we very much would like to from your questions abo
Book contributor joins Howard University professors to talk about the essay in the book that inspired the exhibit and how the africanamerican experience served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. First of all, thank you all for coming out on this rainy evening. I know its a challenge, but i think its well wofrt your time to be here this evening for this discussion. Its my pleasure to welcome you to tonights program entitled historically speaking we return fighting published by smithsonian books its a collection of essays that chronicle the experience 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 many things we will learn this evening is that while the Civil Rights Movement was a world war i established important questions of citizenship that pave the way towards future progress. Were fortunate to be joined tonight by the museums Dep
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
Off your cell phones or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. We are thrilled to tonight to welcome acclaimed historian mary beth norton, the author of five books and coeditor of several others inn her textbook people n the nation a survey of u. S. History has been published in ten additions and has sold mores than a 500,000 copies. Norton is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and 201 in the 2,018th president of the american historical association. She is the Professor Emeritus at cornell university. Her new book 1774 the long year of revolution is available for purchase following the program. So now please join me in welcoming mary beth norton. [applause] its really nice to be here. I want to make sure the clicker is on. It doesnt seem to be. There it is. Okay, great. I dont want to show that one quite yet. It is in the collections in the historical society, and it claims the label that is impossible to read unless so theres a quite wellknown object
And to you joining us for the first time and with the wide range of programs please turn off your cell phones during the program. Mary beth norton the author of five books and cowat it one call author several others and it has been published ten additions over 500,000 copies. As a Pulitzer Prize finalist and present of the Historical Association she is a professor america of American History at cornell and her new book it is available for purchase following the program please join me to welcome mary beth norton. [applause]. I want to show you the cover briefly because if you are a colonial historian on dash i dont know if anybody recognizes it but in the Massachusetts Historical Society the claims on the label but it contains t from the Boston Harbor the day after the party this is quite well known object in colonial america. Now i want to start with this verse from a poem that i discovered in the new york journal that coordinated with the sons of liberty in new york. That this is the