[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if everyone could be seated, for those of you have it taken away knowledge very thrilled to be here and we recognize that we have a large audience. We are thankful for your presence. There he can and very you being here. Let me just check, it is they see it available for someone to take . [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Im pam jackson, dirt at the library of congress are part of the National International outreach unit and we are very pleased to be with you today for this afternoons talk. A very exciting topic with a really great group of people. Should mention todays talk is part by the debut of ap africanamerican Cultural Association here at the library of congress and they will have a special part in our program that will be introduced shortly. I should mention that here for our extra audience for the most part to remind us internally the library of congress is their focus and should, desire to be recognized and provide t
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] if everyone could be seated, for those of you have it taken away knowledge very thrilled to be here and we recognize that we have a large audience. We are thankful for your presence. There he can and very you being here. Let me just check, it is they see it available for someone to take . [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Im pam jackson, dirt at the library of congress are part of the National International outreach unit and we are very pleased to be with you today for this afternoons talk. A very exciting topic with a really great group of people. Should mention todays talk is part by the debut of ap africanamerican Cultural Association here at the library of congress and they will have a special part in our program that will be introduced shortly. I should mention that here for our extra audience for the most part to remind us internally the library of congress is their focus and should, desire to be recognized and provide t
Controversy. Event. An hourlong allow me to introduce our guest tonight. She teaches womens history, history, andomatic africanamerican history. Shes published six books, editing in 2016 a companion to first ladies, a companion to american history. Stolenphs include secrets and the dawn of the cold war, the evolution of soviet american relations, and a book on the subject of tonights presentation which is for sale right outside. Behind the tragedy and controversy. She serves on the board for american communist history and the Advisory Committee for the United States department of state. She received her phd from the university of california at santa barbara. The commentary has appeared recently in time, the guardian, usa today, the canadian broadcasting 70 and the new york post. Heres something you dont hear about historians every day. In 2011, she got to appear as Florence Harding in a play which she wrote at the ohio state marion campus. We are so enthused by her work that we are gla
Controversy. Event. An hourlong allow me to introduce our guest tonight. She teaches womens history, history, andomatic africanamerican history. Shes published six books, editing in 2016 a companion to first ladies, a companion to american history. Stolenphs include secrets and the dawn of the cold war, the evolution of soviet american relations, and a book on the subject of tonights presentation which is for sale right outside. Behind the tragedy and controversy. She serves on the board for american communist history and the Advisory Committee for the United States department of state. She received her phd from the university of california at santa barbara. The commentary has appeared recently in time, the guardian, usa today, the canadian broadcasting 70 and the new york post. Heres something you dont hear about historians every day. In 2011, she got to appear as Florence Harding in a play which she wrote at the ohio state marion campus. We are so enthused by her work that we are gla
Issues, but i think we can get around them. I think we got the sense that there are serious and deep problems that need addressing. We thank you very much for coming to present your book and thank you to the panel. If you have questions we will be at the reception and just ask us in the informal setting. With that, our time is up. [applause] skraz oakland is 11th on the list. To find out the other cities making the top 20 list look for the article on booksquire. Com. Carla hayden was sworn in as the librarian of congress. She is the first woman and africanamerican to hold the position. Thomas jefferson sold most of his library to congress. The british burned the original library of congress when they invaded washington the year before. A later fire destroyed most of jeffersons books we still have some of them. They make up the heart of the library we have here today. Jefferson as you know was a very unique man. Others arranged books alphabetically or by size. He divided his library int