Always free and open to the public. You come here and you buy your look and you buy your stock and greeting cards and we really appreciate it. Our guests will be speaking tonight. The event will be recorded icy spam, sell an extra special reminder to silence your cell phones. After our guest is done speaking about the book there will be an opportunity to ask questions and people have mics available so that your questions can be picked up as well. If you would like to stick around afterwards and get a book signed we can accommodate that. We just ask that you first purchased the book downstairs. They are available right when you walk into the store. Tonight we are very excited to welcome back to the store hw brands. He is a professor here at uc and he holds the senior chair in history. He is the news york times bestselling author of 30 books. If you can keep history that interesting to write 30 books that tells you something about how fantastic his work is pretty to does books were final
Every year. The speaking portion is almost always free and open to the public and we are able to do that because you come here and you buy your books and you buy your stocks and your greeting cards and we really appreciate it. Our guests will be speaking tonight. The event will be recorded by cspan. Extra special reminder to silence your cell phones. After our guest is done speaking about the book there will be an opportunity to ask questions and we will have mikes available so that your questions can be picked up as well. If you would like to stick around afterwords and get a book signed we can accommodate that. We just ask you first purchased the book downstairs. They are available when you walk into the store at the information desk so tonight we are excited to welcome back to the store h. W. Brands. He is a professor, who holds the senior chair in history. He is New York Times bestselling author of 30 books on us history. If you can keep history that interesting that you can write
Titled American History, renegades and is sponsored by the Mississippi Library association. Tracy car with with the Library Commission was in the room for the very first organizational meeting of the festival and couldnt do this without the Mississippi Librarycommission or libraries from all over the state. Thank you very much for your support. And we are in the room today, courtesy of foreman watkins, author and our gratitude to them. Our panelists are tom and then, eric j dolan and peter coupland. Purchased copies of their books from vendors outside and you can find the times our authors will be signing in your program. It will hear from our panelists for about 40 minutes and open the floor to questions. Please come to the podium in the center of the room toask your questions. Now help me welcome our moderator for this panel katie blunts, director of the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Thank you chris. All right, im going to tell you about these guys and then we will
Talking about, really i dont. Also i want to thank a couple. I could be here all night thanking people but there are a couple of people i want to mention. The most important one is kelly, kelly bird. Thank you for organizing all of this, bringing me here, getting us through the whole process of organizing the symposium itself as well as having me speak. And where is paul and nancy . Paul is over there. Paul, thank you for taking me to the best steak place in kansas city. Okay. Thank you. Now paul has been very helpful in other ways as well. Now diane has mentioned that my passion and ill admit this, i will admit to this, my passion is blackpast. Org. Now a 15,000 page website. Essentially a work thats based on volunteers. You can see some of it being skrold. Im not touching on it. You can see the scrolling. It started as kind of a project for our students at the university of washington and we forgot to gate it and as a consequence somebody wrote from new zealand and said, you know, sh
Explorers in the sort of interior west. So as i told you all last time, weve proceeding pretty chronologically up to this point. This lecture is going kind of spin us out onto a thematic topic. So were going to start right around Thomas Jefferson, who we left off talking about on monday, but were going to jump the way through forward to the usmexico war and the civil war. And so a lot of the topics were talking about today, theyre also going to come up in our future lectures. So just know that if you feel slightly unmoored when it comes to what time were in, im going to do my best to signpost, but just flag me down. Youre like, weve suddenly jumped 20 years. Thats going to happen today because its a more of a thematic topic. But what i really want us to get out of this is a deeper insight into this question. Weve been talking throughout the class, which is once you have an empire, how you exert control over it and how is the new us federal government, which we started to talk about on