His new book equality in american dilemma 1866 to 1896. Unleashed by the civil war. You do not need to take my word for how wonderful it is. Equality is deeply researched. The struggle to define the meaning of equality in post civil war america. It is filled with fresh insight into the social movements that took precedent during the region. The inequalities that continue to shape our social and political landscape. Please join me in welcoming charles postal. Postel. You get to meet the author which is one of the reasons to come to an event like this but the person the purpose was where the author was coming from in that sense history books really talk about the past at all. There really about their present in the context in which the book was written written. I may make no secret im transparent on this. It was written after the financial crisis of 20072008. It was written in a context of occupy wall street a questions about the deep economic inequality in the United States. It was writ