So we can get your questions recorded as well as our authors answers. Lastly, at the end, if you could take a moment, fold up your chairs, lean them against something solid, that will give you more space for the book signing and help us get back to bookselling, all of that good stuff. Welcome to politics and prose. My name is abby fennewald. I run all of our events in the story. If you are not familiar with p p, i would definitely invite you to take a moment and sign up for our weekly email or pick up our may calendar of events, see Everything Else we have going on. We are now operating inside three busboys and poets locations around town, and we are going to be doing events in all those spaces as well, so we are doing more than ever. I would hate for you to miss out on any of it. With that, onto why you are all here. We are so happy to have eric burns back with us i think we said you have been here four times before to talk about his new book, 1920 the year that made the decade roar.
End, if you could pull up your chairs, it will give you more space for the book signing and help us get back to bookselling. Welcome to politics and prose. My name is abby fennewald. I run all of our events in the store. Np,youre not familiar with p i would invite you to take a moment to sign up for our calendar of events and see everything else. We are operating inside three locations around town and will be doing events in all the spaces as well. We are doing more than ever. I would hate for you to miss out on any of it. With that, on to why your here. We are so happy to have eric burns back with us. Here four times before. He is back to talk about his new book, 1920 the men that made the decade roar. This is absolutely not your typical history book. And he is not your typical academic historian. He brings his journalist eye to the topic just as he had with , his previous book. He is a former nbc news correspondent and is the former host of fox news watch and has won an emmy for medi
Constitution. You can hear more from robert byrd who served in the u. S. Senate for more than 50 years, this sunday at 5 00 eastern youre on American History tv on cspan3. At the annual Southern Historical association meeting, a group of professors discussed challenges and strategy for teaching the reconstruction era. They talk about sources and trying to find a balance between National History and local history in survey courses. [laughter] aaron good morning. My name is aaron dean, and i would like to welcome everybody to our panel this morning on teaching reconstruction. We are happy to have cspan here, which is not normally part of these panels. We will get going right on time. I will also explain first we will use this morning and then get out of the way. I will offer just a couple of to kind ofy remarks set things up, and then introduce our panelists, and then they will each talk for a short bit, we are hoping within the fiveminute range and i did not bring a cudgel, but every on
Missouri, in 1967, the year before he killed king. He spent time in mexico. Spent time in california. By 1968, he was reportedly intoxicated with the reactionary campaign of george wallace, the Segregationist Alabama governor, who ran for president in 1968 on an anticivil rights, prosegregation, White Supremacist platform. James earl ray volunteered on the wallace for president campaign. Even beyond that, he was just increasingly committed to the racist cause more broadly. And in the spring of 1968, James Earl Ray moved to atlanta. He had been living on the west coast. Moved across the country to atlanta, where Martin Luther king lived and where he preached at Ebenezer Baptist church. He seems to have gone to atlanta in pursuit of dr. King. And in april of 1968, king took a trip from atlanta to memphis, tennessee. It was widely publicized he was going to do it. He wentgo to memphis to support the striking Sanitation Workers there. James earl ray followed Martin Luther king to memphis.
Prosegregation, White Supremacist platform. James earl ray volunteered on the wallace for president campaign. Even beyond that, he was just increasingly committed to the racist cause more broadly. And in the spring of 1968, James Earl Ray moved to atlanta. He had been living on the west coast. Moved across the country to atlanta, where Martin Luther king lived and where he preached at Ebenezer Baptist church. James earl ray appears to have gone to atlanta, specifically in pursuit of dr. King. And in april of 1968, king took a trip from atlanta to memphis, tennessee. It was widely publicized he was going to do it. He went to memphis to support the striking Sanitation Workers there. James earl ray followed Martin Luther king to memphis. And he killed him there. He shot and killed dr. King, as king stood on the balcony of a motel in memphis, the lorraine motel. And for much of america, it must have seemed like time stopped in that moment. Part of our history absolutely did stop in that mo