We have upcoming discussion wives charles king, how a circle of rein theyd anthropologist reinvested race, sex and gender in the 3,020th center and jeff rowe with if become, white flight, race, fiction and the american imagination myung many others. For details and our full excel all check out online or feel free pick up an event flier this evening. Ims to talk with conclude with time for your questions and a book signing right here at this table. Were pleased to have cspans booktv here attaching todays event. When asking questions in the q a, please know your questions well be recorded and place wait a moment for the microphone to make its way to you before asking you question. We have copies of the book for sale at the registers in the next room which is my cue to say as per use, thank you for buying books from Harvard Book Store. You support the future of an independent book store so thank you. And before we start, quick reminder to please silence your cellphones for the talk. Im ve
Hall seattle and we are set up in the cafc right over here and our special guest tonight is you know howard, theyve been set up in the library showing off really cool mask games and im so excited to welcome you to tonights very special math theme doubleheader with Eugenia Cheng and Amir Alexander. This event is presented by townhall as sort of our big homecoming festival. Im hoping many of you might be returning for the first time after a couple of years while weve been remodeling the space and for a lot of you this might be your first time at town hall. This is the type of things we exist to do. Im excitedto present these fantastic authors tonight. We love all our lecture programs, all the political costs, all of the art programming that we do but i am especially fascinated by mass, mathematical approaches to thinking. Im a reformed college math student so having a chance to present Eugenia Cheng who we posted and a couple of times and Amir Alexander as a doubleheader was a great oppo
Officially closed, the reservation system was officially in full swing. It was a time of great change but the beginning of what we think of as modern america, the end of what we think of as native American Life. Those things were more complicated than we think. Host why do you view it that way . Guest 1890 was the last Armed Conflict between native folk and the American Government, the massacre of wounded knee in south dakota, 150300 lakota men, women and children were massacred by the cavalry. That moment came to stand in for so much of American History up to that point. Host december 29, 1890, what happened . Guest it was the tail end of the murder of sitting bull, things were unsettled and people were looking for shelter and there was a band of native people, they left where they were on horseback, and intercepted by the cavalry who rounded them up and tried to starve them. It is unclear what happened next. The cavalry started shooting, opened fire with hotchkiss guns and murdered 5
Complete schedule and now we kick off the weekend with helen pregene on her work to abolish the Death Penalty. [inaudible conversations] good evening, friends. Can you hear me . There we go. Good evening. Welcome to atlanta. Im the director of advancem t advancement. You may not know this but i suspect you do that you are in a quaker school. If youve met a quaker you met a friend. They are synonymous terms, we are part of a National Network of 78 Friends Schools. You might have heard of the obama daughters, Chelsea Clinton attended, matt ryan, quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons played High School Football in philadelphia. Most Friends Schools are located in the northeast. We are the only ones in georgia. What unifies all Friends Schools are the quaker values that form each school community. Those values are simplicity, peace, integrity, community, equality and stewardship. Summed up by the acronym spices. Let me clear up some conservations about quakers. Quakers should not be confused
Everyone. Fternoon yall find seats and will get our panel going. Good morning. Welcome to the fifth annual mississippi book festival. Im Chris Goodwin with Mississippi Department of archives and history. If you havent done so, please silence your cell phone. This panel on the u. S. Civil war is sponsored by the Mississippi Humanities Council and Mississippi State university. One of the book festivals Board Members from Mississippi State John Marszalek is on the panel. Is Francis Coleman here . Dean of the libraries . Another strong supporter. As is stewart rock off director of the Mississippi Humanities Council. I do believe hes in the room. We thank them for their support and we are in the room today courtesy of foreman watkins law firm. Our panelists are Jacquelyn Hall, shelby harriel, ben wynne and john nsmarszalek. You can purchase the books ne outdoors. And you can find the times they will be signing in your brochure. We will hear from our panelists for about 40 minutes and then w