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
And policy bill for 2020. Initial votes mid afternoon. Live coverage here on cspan. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, reverend Asriel Mclain, capitol hill presbyterian church, shreveport, louisiana. The chaplain let us pray. O lord, in the name of jesus, we praise you for the liberties paid for by our sons and daughters who gave their last full measure of devotion. New orleans, gettysburg, normandy, iwo jima, vietnam and the middle east. Thank you for those who marched in places like selma and montgomery. Seeking to perfect our union. Now, lord, bless this the peoples house of which it is said here served the people govern. Bless, o lord, this body, leadership on both sides of the aisle whose composition mirrors the apples orchard the washington state, to the citrus groves of florida to the sun kissed beaches of california and to the beloved bayous of louisiana. Remember our staff, constituents back home as they function as servan
Host we believe it there. A lot happening including another vote the speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. Equally shall be allocated between the parties and in event shall debate continue beyond 9 50 a. M. This morning. Each member other that the majority and minority leaders be inority whip shall limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Kissinger, for five minutes. Be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Kissinger, for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Be limited to five minutes. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to hopor the life and legacy of the honorable john b. Anderson, to pay inspired many to serve. Mr. Kinzinger he passed away at the age of 93. In mourning his death i said my condolences an
Live from the mississippi book festival a panel from the heritage of mississippi series discussed the bicentennial. I was good morning everyone thank you for coming to the panel. Im with the Mississippi Department of archives and history. Welcome to the heritage mississippi series panel. The director of the department of archives and history and a longtime member of the historicahistorical society twoe groups responsible for the book series will moderate the panel. Help me welcome katie. [applause] thank you very much for making this panel possible. [applause] i want to thank you all for joining us here in the mississippi stat state capital. We are proud of this building and it was recently designated to a historical landmark that was very appropriate. [applause] im pleased to host this discussion about the heritage of mississippi series which was also a bicentennial initiative. It will cover 17 volumes of 17 of them have already been published in the there are scholars working their f