Challenged after a tax law eliminated the penalty for not having healthcare insurance. Listen to the oral arguments live at 10 am eastern on cspan, live a report or on the cspan radio app. Hello and welcome to the atlantic History Centers virtual talk series, im sylvia prescott. Tonight i am talking about his new book on were the republic, the dispossession of native americans in indian territory. Purchase the book directly from a cappella books , theres a link in the chat and theres also a link provided on the atlantic institute. As claudia and i are talking about please use the q and a feature atthe bottom of your screen. And i will take as many as time allows. He is professor of american history, codirector of the virtual history and associate director of the institute of native american studies. He is the author of three previous books on american history, west of the revolution, black white and indian and a new order. Claudio saunt, thank you for joining us and welcome. Thank you
Hello welcome to the Atlanta History Center for the author talk series and your post tonight i and talking with Claudio Saunt his book on were the republic. You can purchase the book directly from the link in the chat on your screen. Please let your questions on the q a feature at the bottom of your screen and i will try to get to as many as time allows. Professor of American History code director for ritual history associate director at university of georgia and three previous books a native American History. Rest of the revolution, black white and indian and a new order of things. Thank you to the atlanta history sent on center for sponsoring this event. So many histories at the explosive of the negative ability. You cover a lot the political and economic motivation. And two thirds of what became mississippi and its not just how much land it was the most valuable Agricultural Land in the world at the time. And removal is part of the southern story but the indian people in the north a
Institute of native american studies at the university of georgia. Hes the authohe is the author e previous books west of the revolution, black white and a new order of things. Thank you for joining us and welcome thank you for sponsoring this event. It challenges the idea that so many have represented the expulsion as an inevitability. Youve covered a lot of evidence of political motivations. How much land first did indian zone in the southeast and the decades before the 1830s . They owned a huge amount. Half of what became mississippi and about a fifth of georgia. Its how valuable the land was. It was among the most valuable probably in the entire world at the time. We think of it largely as a southern story. They have much smaller spots of land by the early century. You cover a number of other tribes expelled from new york and ohio and i know it differs from tribe to tribe and state to state but what kind of rights or autonomy did they have lets say in the south . It is contested to
Published in the new yorker, the New York Times, the Washington Post and the nation among other outlets. In his cover essay on the invisible bridge for the New York Times book review this past sunday frank rich wrote, it says much about perlsteins gift as a historian that he persuasively portrays a silky splendor interlude between the fall of nixon and the rise of reagan as his subtitle has it. Not just as a true bottom of our history but also as a Rosetta Stone for reading america and its politics today. It says much about his talent as a writer that he makes years of lively engrossing and on occasion partly funny. Perlstein knows how to sit through a culture for the telling forgotten detail. True to form, perlstein doesnt condescend to this conservative icon and seems to understand him. For now perlstein has taken the story only through the summer of our bicentennial year but much of what has happened in the nearly four decades since and perhaps much that is yet to come can be found
Claudio is codirector of the center for virtual history and associate director of the institute of native american studies at the university of georgia. He is author of three previous books on American History. West of the revolution, black, white, indian and a new order of things. And to thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for hosting and thanked the center for sponsoring thiss event. Unworthy republic challenges thet idea that so many historis have presented at the expulsion of native americans as an inevitability rate you uncover a lot of evidence of political and economic motivation so how much land first indians own in the southeast in the decades before the 1830s . They owned a huge amount, half of alabama, two thirds what became mississippi, about a fifth of georgia. And its not just how much land they own, but how valuable that land was for his mom the most valuable Agricultural Land probably in the entire world at the time. The removal covered the entire United