Of thanksgiving. As we come to the National Holiday of thanksgiving, we know that there is a lot of mythology we grew up with about what happened on that first thanksgiving. Today, we have for you a scholar that is tried to look at what really happened at that time and put the history of against the mythology to talk to us about what is the real story during that time . David silverman is a professor of history at jude George Washington university. You got your masters from william and mary. That is sams alma mater so he wants to make sure we get that out there. Although, you did earn your princeton phd. So you get a little bit of props for both places. Your most recent book, that we will share with you in the followup notes, is called this land is their land the one pinoy indian wampanoag indians Plymouth Colony and the troubled history of thanksgiving. The book was published in 2020 and David Silverman has become one of the go to scholars as thanksgiving comes around so we are excite
And and, you know, were in the tens of thousands for our species right now. You know, like imagine what, 5 million years of humanity could achieve and what that could mean for what el could look like across the rest the universe. Well, before gleaves closes the show, ladies and gentlemen, Garrett Graff Garrett Graff. Hello, new york. Hello, upper west side. Hello our bookish friends on cspan. Thanks for coming out tonight, lila. So nice to meet you. Congratulations on your book. Thank you so much. Really great to be here. So appreciate you all coming out. And you down. Oh, my pleasure. Well, this is so im also a new author, so im trying to get as much love and good in the publishing world as possible. Im already getting it from you before i could even give you gift you gave me yours, which is a number of beaver theme songs for my little boy river and. I had brought this for you because this has been sitting the back of my closet and i havent worn it in forever. And i want you to have.
Im alice baumgartner. Im an assistant professor of history at the university of southern california. And this is my first inperson conference in since the pandemic and after two years where giving a conference paper was basically sitting alone in my apartment justiculating at my laptop. Its really wonderful to i guess be able to justiculate in person to you guys today. So just wanted to give a big thank you to the organization of american historians for putting together this conference and for accommodating all of the different varieties in which people chose to participate even though i know that came at some great logistical challenges. I also want to think Raylan Barnes who unfortunately cant be here today. But who is really the one responsible for bringing us all together today . She originally conceived of the round table as one that would be focused on the civil war in the west. But ultimately last year around february decided to focus it on 1862. This is the year when the Republ
Im an assistant professor of history at the university of Southern California and this is my first in person Conference Since the pandemic and after two years where giving a conference paper was basically sitting alone in my apartment, its wonderful to be able to talk with you today. So just wanted to get a big thank you to the organization for putting together this conference and for accommodating the varieties of which people chose to participate even though i know that came at some great logistical challenges. I also want to thank who cant be here today but is the one responsible for bringing us all together today. As she originally conceived of the roundtable as one that would be focused on the civil war and the west but ultimately last yearry around february decided o focus it on 1862. This is the year when the Republican Party succeeded into some of its original Campaign Promises abolished in the district of columbia and the western territories as well as passing the homestead ac
History. Well, its such a pleasure to be able to introduce dr. Holly a mayor who is been a dear friend of mine for decades. Now. We are catching up a little bit on the terrace earlier trying to calculate the years, but its been it was back in the 1900s when we first met one another thats not amazing how that sounds now holly dr. Mayer is now a professor emerita from the mccannulty college in the graduate school of liberia arts at Duquesne University in my hometown of pittsburgh, pennsylvania where she taught for many decades she did i think two stints as chair of the History Department there after joining duquesne after receiving your phd at the college of william and mary. She also has served as the visiting heraldkay johnson chair of military history at the Us Army War College out in carlisle, pennsylvania at the Carlisle Barracks and is currently during this Academic Year at west point where shes serving as the charles bowl ewing visitor professor of history. She is also has been co