For everything you can go to the website politics prose. Com or pick up one of the monthly printed calendars. Before we get started, id like to ask everyone to please silence your cell phones so as not to disrupt the event. When we get to the qanda if you could line up at the microphone at the pillar, that would be great as we are audio recording and booktv is filming as well so we would like to have your questions in their. Following the qanda we will have a signing at the table and if you could leave your chairs where they are we have a couple more readings today that would be fantastic. And so today we are very excited to welcome robert plumb here celebrating his newest book the better angels five women who changed the civil war america. Collective biography of five extraordinary women who came to National Prominence during the civil war. Documenting how the conflict left openings for women to assume roles held by men and ensuring the depth of passion and commitment. To them and tir
Off your cell phones or anything else that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. We are thrilled to tonight to welcome acclaimed historian mary beth norton, the author of five books and coeditor of several others inn her textbook people n the nation a survey of u. S. History has been published in ten additions and has sold mores than a 500,000 copies. Norton is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and 201 in the 2,018th president of the american historical association. She is the Professor Emeritus at cornell university. Her new book 1774 the long year of revolution is available for purchase following the program. So now please join me in welcoming mary beth norton. [applause] its really nice to be here. I want to make sure the clicker is on. It doesnt seem to be. There it is. Okay, great. I dont want to show that one quite yet. It is in the collections in the historical society, and it claims the label that is impossible to read unless so theres a quite wellknown object
And to you joining us for the first time and with the wide range of programs please turn off your cell phones during the program. Mary beth norton the author of five books and cowat it one call author several others and it has been published ten additions over 500,000 copies. As a Pulitzer Prize finalist and present of the Historical Association she is a professor america of American History at cornell and her new book it is available for purchase following the program please join me to welcome mary beth norton. [applause]. I want to show you the cover briefly because if you are a colonial historian on dash i dont know if anybody recognizes it but in the Massachusetts Historical Society the claims on the label but it contains t from the Boston Harbor the day after the party this is quite well known object in colonial america. Now i want to start with this verse from a poem that i discovered in the new york journal that coordinated with the sons of liberty in new york. That this is the
Good good evening. I would like to welcome you to todays program to our members glad you are here with that ongoing support to make thiss possible and to you joining us for the first time an open invitation to explore the wide range of programs announce the perfect time to turn off your phones. And Mary Beth Norton is the author of five books and coordinate one dash co editor of a survey of history has been published in ten additions with the 20 president of the american historical association. Contact cornell university. 1774 and like the following program please help us welcome Mary Beth Norton. [applause] its nice to be here. Is the clicker on . So the cover of the book because that little bottle is famous if you are a colonial historian if anybody recognizes it in the Massachusetts Historical Society and the claims on the label that its even possible to read and to pick up from Boston Harbor. And it is a well known object in colonial america. With the new york journal which is a ne
I would like to welcome you to tonights program. To our members we are so glad that you are here. And to you joining us for the first time and with the wide range of programs please turn off your cell phones during the program. Mary beth norton the author of five books and cowat it one call author several others and it has been published ten additions over 500,000 copies. As a Pulitzer Prize finalist and present of the Historical Association she is a professor america of American History at cornell and her new book it is available for purchase following the program please join me to welcome mary beth norton. [applause]. I want to show you the cover briefly because if you are a colonial historian on dash i dont know if anybody recognizes it but in the Massachusetts Historical Society the claims on the label but it contains t from the Boston Harbor the day after the party this is quite well known object in colonial america. Now i want to start with this verse from a poem that i discovere