For everything you can go to the website politics prose. Com or pick up one of the monthly printed calendars. Before we get started, id like to ask everyone to please silence your cell phones so as not to disrupt the event. When we get to the qanda if you could line up at the microphone at the pillar, that would be great as we are audio recording and booktv is filming as well so we would like to have your questions in their. Following the qanda we will have a signing at the table and if you could leave your chairs where they are we have a couple more readings today that would be fantastic. And so today we are very excited to welcome robert plumb here celebrating his newest book the better angels five women who changed the civil war america. Collective biography of five extraordinary women who came to National Prominence during the civil war. Documenting how the conflict left openings for women to assume roles held by men and ensuring the depth of passion and commitment. To them and tir
And to you joining us for the first time and with the wide range of programs please turn off your cell phones during the program. Mary beth norton the author of five books and cowat it one call author several others and it has been published ten additions over 500,000 copies. As a Pulitzer Prize finalist and present of the Historical Association she is a professor america of American History at cornell and her new book it is available for purchase following the program please join me to welcome mary beth norton. [applause]. I want to show you the cover briefly because if you are a colonial historian on dash i dont know if anybody recognizes it but in the Massachusetts Historical Society the claims on the label but it contains t from the Boston Harbor the day after the party this is quite well known object in colonial america. Now i want to start with this verse from a poem that i discovered in the new york journal that coordinated with the sons of liberty in new york. That this is the
Good good evening. I would like to welcome you to todays program to our members glad you are here with that ongoing support to make thiss possible and to you joining us for the first time an open invitation to explore the wide range of programs announce the perfect time to turn off your phones. And Mary Beth Norton is the author of five books and coordinate one dash co editor of a survey of history has been published in ten additions with the 20 president of the american historical association. Contact cornell university. 1774 and like the following program please help us welcome Mary Beth Norton. [applause] its nice to be here. Is the clicker on . So the cover of the book because that little bottle is famous if you are a colonial historian if anybody recognizes it in the Massachusetts Historical Society and the claims on the label that its even possible to read and to pick up from Boston Harbor. And it is a well known object in colonial america. With the new york journal which is a ne
I would like to welcome you to tonights program. To our members we are so glad that you are here. And to you joining us for the first time and with the wide range of programs please turn off your cell phones during the program. Mary beth norton the author of five books and cowat it one call author several others and it has been published ten additions over 500,000 copies. As a Pulitzer Prize finalist and present of the Historical Association she is a professor america of American History at cornell and her new book it is available for purchase following the program please join me to welcome mary beth norton. [applause]. I want to show you the cover briefly because if you are a colonial historian on dash i dont know if anybody recognizes it but in the Massachusetts Historical Society the claims on the label but it contains t from the Boston Harbor the day after the party this is quite well known object in colonial america. Now i want to start with this verse from a poem that i discovere
Hes also author of prelude to cruise which is winner of the penn joyce author award for poetry and at the 2015 stonewall literature award. Poetry collection is also a finalist for the 2015 National Book critics circle award as well as awards lambda literary and the publishing triangle in 2015. Saeed jones served as cohost of buzzfeeds morning show and served as buzzfeeds lgbt and culture editor. He grew up in lewisville texas and earned a ba at Western Kentucky University and an mfa at Rutgers University in newark. He lives in new york city and tweets at the ferocity. Thank you for being here saeed jones. As a side note, the southern festival of books remains completely free because of Strong Community support and we want to keep it that way. So you can donate on the web. Humanities tennessee. Org or by the southern festival of books or by the collection plate thats been passed around. Saeed is going to read for us. We will have a q a and when we get to the q and aplease use the microp