Welcome the nbcc and to welcome to this Years National book. Critics circles awards. The new school and the nbcc have a long standing relationship going back to the very earliest years of the nbcc. Our faculty have been Board Members and awards recipients and our communities have worked together in classrooms and and events since before the memory of anyone here, the annual awards have been hosted at the new school for over 20 years. This few years have been very challenging for all of us with covid, we are finally back on campus for an in real life nbcc simone and of course at the new school we are emerging from last fall when all of us were tested and our ideals and faith in one another and the future working with the nbcc is something to remind us what were here for and were enormously grateful to have a friendship that extends beyond any of us individually. To begin, i have to thank our teams at. T. A. At the new school for bringing us to this evening. Look out for stuart pennebake
Cowie, author of freedoms dominion, a saga of white resistance to federal american freedom, is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government has intervened on behalf nonwhite people, Many Americans fought back in the name of freedom, which meant their freedom to dominate others in freedoms dominion. His story in Jefferson County traces the complex saga by focusing on one specific american place, Barbour County, alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace in a land shaped by settler colonialism and slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize native American Lands champions over there reconstruct asian question the new deal and fight against the civil rights movement. Freedoms dominion is. A riveting history of the long running between white people and authority and radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America Jefferson cowie holds. The james. Stallman chair in
Hello, im john reed faculty here in the Creative Writing Program and the director of the creative Creative Writing Program at the new school. The one time i was on this stage, i was a board member of the nbcc chairing a category. Its my great honor tonight to welcome the nbcc and to welcome to this Years National book. Critics circles awards. The new school and the nbcc have a long standing relationship going back to the very earliest years of the nbcc. Our faculty have been Board Members and awards recipients and our communities have worked together in classrooms and and events since before the memory of anyone here, the annual awards have been hosted at the new school for over 20 years. This few years have been very challenging for all of us with covid, we are finally back on campus for an in real life nbcc simone and of course at the new school we are emerging from last fall when all of us were tested and our ideals and faith in one another and the future working with the nbcc is so
For anymore war fatigue. Something we experience historically, again and again. Thank you to Fergus Bordewich and thank you to all of you for being here. Thankso we are here with jeffern cowie, author of freedoms dominion, a saga of white resistance to federal american freedom, is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government has intervened on behalf nonwhite people, Many Americans fought back in the name of freedom, which meant their freedom to dominate others in freedoms dominion. His story in Jefferson County traces the complex saga by focusing on one specific american place, Barbour County, alabama, the ancestral home of political firebrand George Wallace in a land shaped by settler colonialism and slavery, white people weaponized freedom to seize native American Lands champions over there reconstruct asian question the new deal and fight against the civil rights movement. Freedoms dominion is. A riveting
Im very excited to introduce her to you. She stuck to Fay Yarbrough professor of history and an associate dean at rice university. Dr. Yabra as an expert on 19th century native american history, and shes got special interest in the interactions between Indigenous People and people of african descent during the 19th century. So her first book was race and the Cherokee Nation sovereignty in the 19th century, and her most recent book is called choctaw confederates the American Civil War in indian country. And of course you recognize the title. That book is the subject of tonights talk and its also basically brand new. I noticed its official publication date was exactly two weeks ago. So its a twoweek birthday for your book this evening and were excited to share it with you. You can find it in all of the usual bookstore places as well as directly from the university of north carolina, press the publisher. So the talk will be around 30 to 35 minutes or so. Well have plenty of time for discu