First a discussion on the late author and active audra lorde, following by eddie glaude on james baldwin. Welcome to the Shomberg Center book festival. We had to reimagine a block long multistaged outdoor philadelphia as a viral one with your favorite write centers opportunity to discover more books. This we we have 35 authors and midraters sharing narratives from the u. S. And uk to west africa and jamaica, each night we go between the past and present like the Shomberg Centers archives and programs. Tonights program, audra lordo features writers roxanne gay, tracy. Something i and mahogany browne. Im the associate director of Public Programs and exhibitions at the Shomberg Center for research in black culture. Were celebrating 95 years of one of the world residents leading cultural institutions devoted to research, preservation and exhibition. Our are care has 11 million ims at that time illuminate the richness of black history and culture and we have met some items v8 digitally. Vis
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Welcome everybody. My name is Doug Bradburn, founding director of the library for the study of George Washington here at beautiful mount vernon and delighted to welcome you all again for a wonderful evening of conversation in history. And i would also like to welcome the cspan audience who was recording as the cd. Its great to have you back in the library. Will these evening book talks are special for friday of reasons because we get to bring exciting new historians to the eager community, but also because it sponsored by forbes which is been a great donor to mount vernon for many, many years. As you all know Mount Vernon Ladies Association does not take any government money. Its completely private institution based on philanthropy a base of people coming to the estate. So we depend on groups like the ford family and the Ford Motor Company has supported mount vernon, since henry ford gave the first fire engine to mount vernon to keep the Mansion House and burning to the ground. So as s
Rental meant to fight in world war i. He examines the regiments leadership, its actions in the field of battle, and the challenges the men faced following the war. This is an hour and a half. Now, gives me great pleasure to introduce the man of the hour, jeffrey t. Sammons. A professor in the department of history at new york university, where he has taught since 1989, Rutgers Research fellow at Rutgers University camden and completed his critically acclaimedded beyond the ring role of boxing in American Society in 2001. Sammons was awarded a fellowship by the Shomberg Center of research. And received a National Endownment humanities in support of harlem rattlers and the great war. Sammons is a native of bridge ton, new jersey, earned his bachelors in history at rutgers college, where he graduated magna cum laude, and elected to identify Phi Beta Kappa in 1971. He earned a masters agreeing in history from Tufts University and a ph. D in American History in 1982. In 198384, he was a pos