Good evening, [inaudible] [applause] to introduce our speaker for this evening who will tell you, Leeanna Keith teaches history at the Collegiate School for boys in new york city. She is the author of the colfax massacre. [inaudible] [inaudible] please join me in welcoming Leeanna Keith. [applause] thank you everybody. Forgive me for remaining seated. Im going to tell you what happened to me. I know you want to know how i broke my legs. They sideswiped me. I feel very lucky to be here at all. Now im going to tell you a story about the civil war and afterwards all i can remember is on the lady who a [laughter] what can i say, thats my story. Ive been traveling and one thing about my book is theres a lot of local history and their s, stories that happen in different places. This is not where much of the action takes place. Seeing how about how to organize this talk make me recognize a certain pattern to the geography of the civil war and the whole radical movement. Which in my story get
Good evening everyone. Can anyone hear me well . Good. I am mary mclaughlin, a program coded with the Smithsonian Associates and i like to welcome you to what is promised to be very perfect halloween evening on the crucible of the victorian surgery. Before we begin risley like us everyone to check their cell phones and make sure they are silenced. Im also like to let you know that this program is being filled by cspan to be aired at a later date, so if youve enjoyed tonight program and would like it again, or if you think your friend like to see it, you should check over the next few weeks cspan and see if it is up. Sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for them to run a show and other times it can be one or two months. So its worth checking periodically. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker doctor lindsey fitzharris. She tells me as a little girl shes to drag her grandmother trump cemetery to cemetery so that she could hunt ghosts. So some thought she was obsessed with death from