Publisher Chris Jackson talks about working on the awardwinning book between the world and me and he will attend a Book Release Party for steve hilton, former Senior Advisor to british Prime Minister david cameron. On monday and extra day of booktv. He will hear from annette gordonreed and peter onuf on the intellectual life of Thomas Jefferson, radio talkshow host discusses the importance of the 10 commandments, nprs diane reed shares her involvement with the right to die movement and you will look at the namesake of the john burke society. That is just a few of the authors on booktv this holiday weekend. For complete schedule go to booktv. Org. Booktv on cspan2, 72 hours of nonfiction books and authors this memorial day weekend, television for serious readers. We kick off the weekend with Pulitzer Prizewinning historian annette gordonreed and peter onuf talking about Thomas Jefferson. This is booktv on cspan2. Welcome to the library of philadelphia. I am representative James Roebuck
American experiences into American History. And i suggested kind of a little cameo appearances, pocahontas, indians waving rifles at wounded knee in 1973. Doesnt really help. And i think on sunday i said if we really did this seriously and effectively, we would come up with a very different narrative of American History. And that may not be attainable and it may not even be desirable because we live in the real world. And School Boards and textbook publishers and so on may have problems with that. So there is another approach. Thats what im going to suggest today. Is to look at, if you like the narrative we have, right, the one that i critiqued yesterday. That east west narrative of American Growth and expansion of the nation. To look at that and identify in that narrative a missing strand. And that missing strand would be the native american strand. What im going to talk about this morning is kind of a large swath of American History where i pull out native american strand out of it a
Presents his second book, invisible the untoward untold story of africanamericans in the white house. Hes a nationally recognized journalist and Media Authority who as contributed hundreds of articles in African American history, politics, news. He makes regular appearances on cspans washington journal, abcs news now, and evening exchange. He is also longstanding contributor and a political reporter for the Associated Press and a Supreme Court correspondence. In his first book, he pointed out the many iconic buildings and structures and monuments including the capital zone statue of freedom that was constructed at least in part by enslaved black men. In his latest offering, he lays his focus on the extensive and historically overlooked roles that africanamericans have played in the history of the white house. Of our first, 10 were slave owners. And revealing how little tribute has been given for the contributions of enslaved persons to the normal functioning of our early american insti
Of that congregation. They bought the land in 1870, two parcels of land, for the express purpose of building a house of worship. In the sale document we have from the courthouse, they named antiyokeregation the congregation. That message of being against slavery is something important to our story here. This is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river. We are talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. We like to start our to her here in this building so we can see what happens to people our tour here in this building so we can see what happened to people after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only plantation in louisiana exclusively dedicated to telling the story of an slaved people. This land we are on now was historically known as habitation hideout, and our owner, John Cummings, purchased the property 15 years ago and has been and theg the structure church. We had to build some things here , restore e
Express purpose of building a house of worship. In the sale document we have from the courthouse, they named their congregation the antiyoke baptist congregation. That message of being against slavery is something important to our story here. This is a Significant Church for newly freed slaves on the east bank of the river. We are talking about the lives of people who saw freedom after the end of the civil war. We like to start our to her here in this building so we can see what happens to people our tour here in this building so we can see what happened to people after freedom came. The whitney plantation is the only plantation in louisiana exclusively dedicated to telling the story of an slaved people. This land we are on now was historically known as habitation hideout, and our owner, John Cummings, purchased the property 15 years ago and has been restoring the structure and the church. We had to build some things here, restore existing buildings, and bring this historic structure a