May be your first public speech in richmond, virginia. She is a professor of history for the study of war in society at the university of southern mississippi. She taught previously in texas which accounts at least in part for the topic of our program today. As you can see in your program, she is fully immersed in the history of miss of mississippi. Recently, she launched the civil war governors of mississippi project. A partnership with the university of the southern of southern mississippi. I should draw your attention to the common theme you will hear in my introductions. Their role as educators and as mentors of younger students. Dr. Ural is a former president of the mississippi has oracle and serves on the board of trustees for the society of. And on several editorial boards. As you can see from the title of her book in the program, her scholarship explores the intersection of military and social history. Her newest book hoodss texas brigade is the basis for her program today. Lad
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You create this very distorted memory of the warrior leaving out emancipation, leading out africanamericans and you are making this all about white people. Thats what they want. Thats ultimately what is important to them, is reestablishing the racial order that has been destroyed by emancipation. I would hope that people would come away from my book and learn from my book just how critical women were during the civil war, just how much the civil war changed gender roles and did that different any energy and south. You can watch this and by visiting cspan2. Org cities tour. Were live all day today from the mississippi book festival. The festival is in its fifth year here in jackson where they offer author discussions in the State Capitol building as well as activities and book sales then capitol grounds. Well be back shortly to Old Supreme Court chimp best with the next author discussion, which will be about civil rights and race in america. This is live booktv on cspan2. Now from our a
tv, they will air this program in the future. thank you for joining us for this important discussion, which launches the center s new annual theme. slavery and its after lives. a partnership between the department of history and columbia university libraries embarked on a re-defined mission last year. to inform civic engagement and social responsibility, by examining the histories that shaped urgent needs are society must address. i am especially delighted to introduce our panel tonight. doctor caleb mcdaniel, our featured speaker. professor of humanities and chair of the department of history at vise university. specializing in 19th century u.s. history, slavery and emancipation as well as the american civil war era. his latest book, sweet taste of liberty, a true story of slavery and restitution in america, was published by oxford university press and was awarded the 2020 pulitzer prize for history and the avery of craven award for the organization of american historians. i