Horowitz. Good afternoon, everyone thank you for joining us. Im from the History Department here they were extremely likely to have the extraordinarily talented historians with us today. I will introduce them each and start with some questions and why they do what they do and then make sure to leave time for you all to ask questions at the end we are speaking to an audience of cspan. For one of our friends and supporters here in the purple times festival book to help guide where you can purchase and get your book signed and also the personal recordin requirings section is not. This is professor Christine Snyder or shes a professor of history. Christina is here to speak mostly about her new book indian settlers and slaves but shes also written before on Indian Country and the struggles. The casting is by way of reference and excavation of the community of the earlier period of the great crossings and we will hear about that in a moment. My friend and colleague from across town at the Hi
Religious than other westerners. They are perhaps five to 10 of the American Population but also, americans are very divided over different conceptions in christianity so not just between nonbelievers and believers but among christians themselves, so im the one hand approximately 40 of americans could have views towards religion and another 40 tend to lead towards christian fundamentalism which can lead in the middle the creation of some and political prophecies but another sign of that doesnt shape peoples views towards religious questions like creationism or abortion or rights but a lot of people think about the economy and crying and beyond because it tends to shape a hard line in the authoritarian mindset and that might explain also why even though they are not religious that they have similarities in their worldviews in many cases. Host first tim time author d guest on book tv, here is the book exceptional america was divides americans from the world and from each other. We look f