We would like to thank mr. Schwartz for all of his support which has enabled us to reduce a wide array of willie wonderful programs. What we give him a hand. Of course our board of trustees has been really active and really helpful in bringing this institution to the level it is today we have a trustee who is with us today in the audience. All of our Chairmans Council member with us for their great work and support. Tonights program is going to last one hour and include questionandanswer since june. The q a will be conducted via written questions on note cards and you should have received something from one of our volunteers in the audience who note cards and pencils. And i will be going through, as soon as im done with introduction i will go through and collect cards as well. I will hand out to anyone who did not receive one on the way in. Also tonight after the on stage talk the speakers will be signing books for us in our ny history store on our 77th street side of the building and
Im the provost at the university of tennessee at martin and tiff pleasure of hosting this session, shared history, americans of hispanic and african decent. Southern festival books remains completely free thanks to Strong Community support f youd like to donate to support the festival, you can do so on site at the Festival Headquarters or online via the humanitys tennessee website. You can purchase copies of the books that will be discussing today at the books sales area which is up on the Memorial Plaza and after the session both of our authors will be signing books at the signing tent. Our session today is going to focus on two books, dr. Kerry gibsons book el norte, epic and forgotten story of hispanic north america and Kristina Coles american founders how people after african decent established freedom in the new world. In just a minute we will hear from both of the authors and after that questions from the audience. Dr. Carry gibson grew up in United States and graduated from the
And thats something we really cant take for granted. The festival begins on individual donations to keep going into say free and you can donate at any level via the southern festival of books through their facebook page. The southern festival of books app. This weekend in person at vessel headquarters. See mac i want to encourage everyone to visit humanities labor literary website. There are wonderful reviews there. You can also sign up for a weekly newsletter information about upcoming author events. And also a great way to be a part of the literary community. In tennessee. Finally, after our session jason will be signing books at the signing tent on the plaza. And plaza. And copies of the books are for sale at the sales area and a portion of the proceeds directly benefits the festival. Enough announcements it is my delight to introduce jason depaul. I could talk for a long while about his decades of extraordinary writing about poverty and immigration among other publications in the N
Fantastic day. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] tvthis is America History where every weekend we spent 48 hours exploring our nations past. Isthe cspan cities tour exploring the american story as we take book tv in American History tv on the road with the support of our Comcast Cable partners. Coming up in the next hour and 15 minutes, the story of how this Central Michigan town became a state capital. Minutes we will have a job or of the state capital, which is been in continuous use since 1879. Learn aboutll lansings rich history. We begin at the turner dodge home. James turner was a pioneer. It was not until the state legislature designated this area that he came with other folks into the capital. You might have expected a more sensible approach. We did not do that. We had 10 months to build the capital city and that was a
So i have the very difficult task of going after gary. I would like to first thank carrie for inviting me and will, for accommodating all of my traveling snafus and being so gracious. And to thank liz baron, who is my former advisor and gary gallagher, who is also a dear mentor of mine, for not only having me here at the conference, but also just for years and years of mentoring. That dont seem to end. I am going to talk about i am going to begin with the battle that gary does not think is important, because it is in North Carolina. To be fair, i dont think many people think that the battle of newborn is incredibly important or significant, so i dont think he is alone. Nor am i arguing that the western theater is more important than the eastern theater. I wanted to throw my hands up and say that up front and maybe change the conversation a little bit. So, i will begin. On the morning of march 14, 1862, general john foster read the first troops to the front line in North Carolina. Foste