A professor of history at the university of illinois at chicago. She studies race and agenda in the u. S. Wes bridges a member of. She was awarded the of one historians. 119 she was a fellow of the huntington library. Her new book is west of jim crow the fight against californias color line. Thank you for being with us and im going to hand it over to yu and i will see you again for q a thank you so much. Im just so happy to be here. Let me just get this going. First of all i have big thank you to give to the California Historical society. I frankly would not have had a career without them. They have been helping me every single step along my career. I have visited them for my first book where did much of my research and the old library and the library into the curators, i cant say enough. I could spend all my time thinking how the library into the special shout out to karen jacob for helping me in setting this program up but i also want to give a shoutout to Deborah Hoffman the archivi
Julian malvo, steve forbes and nobel prizewinning economist joseph stiglitz. Of this is a topic that interests you go to our website at booktv. Org and in the search bar type economics book and you will find a large archive of authors and materials would all of these are available to watch online. Host welcome to nashville and the southern festival of books. He will hear from many offers throughout the weekend including National Book Award Finalist Patricia Bell scott and nancy maclean, talk radio host eric erickson, basilica other liza monday and many others. For complete schedule visit booktv. Org or follow along on social media sites on facebook, twitter and instagram at booktv. We are kicking off todays coverage with biographer jonathan i on the life and politics of mohammed ali. This is live coverage on cspan2. [silence bracket good morning, everyone, thank you for coming and welcome to the 29th southern festival of books. It is my pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce jon
Talk radio show host eric erickson. Liza randy and many others. For a complete schedule visit booktv. Org. We are Facebook Twitter and instagram. Were kicking off todays coverage on the life and politics of mohammed ali. This is live coverage on cspa cspan2. [inaudible] of money. Think you for coming and welcome to the 29th southern festival of books. It is my pleasure to have the opportunity to introduce our author. Another that i really admire and have been reading his work for years. Hes here to talk about his biography of mohammed ali. This is only his third stop so thats an honor for us. Before he speaks the book festival is free but if youd like to contribute to the cause you can do that at the headquarters for the book festival outsider online. Also remind you that after the remarks will be heading over to the signing tent seeking to have him cite your book over there. Is one of the typewriters of nonfiction a fantastic author in addition to writing for bestselling books jonatha
Tv and sunday afternoon at 2 on American History tv on cspan3. Every weekend on cspan3 48 hours of American History. And this week, with the house and senate in recess all week for president s day, we are bringing you American History tv in primetime on cspan3. Tonight, two discussions from the american historical Associations Annual meeting. First, a look at the social upheaval of the 1970s. Then a conversation on historians being viewed as public intellectuals. Up next on American History tv on cspan3, a look at the social changes of the 1970s such as the aftermath of watergate, increasing divorce rates drug use and crime. From the american historical Associations Annual meeting last month in new york city this is two hours. Welcome, everybody, to todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today and i im going to just start out by talking a little bit about what we thought how we kind of framed this panel and what we are kind of hoping to accomplish. One of the
Increasing divorce rates drug use and crime. From the american historical Associations Annual meeting last month in new york city this is two hours. Welcome, everybody, to todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today and i im going to just start out by talking a little bit about what we thought how we kind of framed this panel and what we are kind of hoping to accomplish. One of the things we have set this up as a round table intentionally. All of us were going to speak for maybe about ten minutes, so kind of making a few brief remarks about the literature on the 1970s and thinking you about the 1970s, what this unique time means to us today and then we would like to open it up and have a lot of time for conversation, both among both with each other and most importantly, with the audience. So we are going to be sticking to a pretty, you know pretty tight time and hopefully having a lot of time for conversation. So, one of the things that we were thinking abou