Im very excited to introduce her to you. She stuck to Fay Yarbrough professor of history and an associate dean at rice university. Dr. Yabra as an expert on 19th century native american history, and shes got special interest in the interactions between Indigenous People and people of african descent during the 19th century. So her first book was race and the Cherokee Nation sovereignty in the 19th century, and her most recent book is called choctaw confederates the American Civil War in indian country. And of course you recognize the title. That book is the subject of tonights talk and its also basically brand new. I noticed its official publication date was exactly two weeks ago. So its a twoweek birthday for your book this evening and were excited to share it with you. You can find it in all of the usual bookstore places as well as directly from the university of north carolina, press the publisher. So the talk will be around 30 to 35 minutes or so. Well have plenty of time for discu
Im very excited to introduce her to you. She stuck to Fay Yarbrough professor of history and an associate dean at rice university. Dr. Yabra as an expert on 19th century native american history, and shes got special interest in the interactions between Indigenous People and people of african descent during the 19th century. So her first book was race and the Cherokee Nation sovereignty in the 19th century, and her most recent book is called choctaw confederates the American Civil War in indian country. And of course you recognize the title. That book is the subject of tonights talk and its also basically brand new. I noticed its official publication date was exactly two weeks ago. So its a twoweek birthday for your book this evening and were excited to share it with you. You can find it in all of the usual bookstore places as well as directly from the university of north carolina, press the publisher. So the talk will be around 30 to 35 minutes or so. Well have plenty of time for discu
In many of these researches. And so i will share with you my research. I will tell you a story. The should behind me, pittsburgh 11 00 p. M. On august 4th, 1863, most of the passengers are return to the cabins and some were fast asleep and all was quiet it was called. And the captain, the upper decks and on the train and ironically, they have returned to danger as steamboat travel. And if a fire had broken out in the far end of the vote in a carpenter shop, the ladies cabin. And the captain wanted to find the first made and they quickly in the carpenter shop. And it they rush out and grabbed his clothes and shoes on braided and he thought a lot about the capabilities and it grew and grew and they can do nothing and so they focused on the rescue and meanwhile they had restaurant to check on the federal side this vote was carried and uncaring 2. 6 million and is supposed to go to Ulysses S Grant army, these boxes are where they are supposed to be but they wont be there for long. Within m
Native american history, and she has special interest in the interactions between indigenous people, and people of african descent during the 19th century. So her first book was race in the Cherokee Nation, 17 in the 19th century. Her most recent book is called choctaw confederates, the American Civil War and indian country. If you recognize the title, that book is the subject of tonights talk. Its also basically brandnew. I noticed its official publication date was two years ago. Its a twoweek birthday for your book this evening. Were excited to share it with you. You can find it in all the usual bookstore places, as well as directly from the university of North Carolina press publishers. The top will be around 30 to 35 minutes, also. Well have plenty of time for a discussion at the end. The way we do discussion, if youve been to these events before, we do it all through the q and a feature in zoom. You can type in questions to the q a box at anytime. If something occurs to you during
Were going to get away from turncentric narratives, and focus on things that i research and write about, naval war fair and guerrilla warfare. To start off i want to share with you a story from my research, you dont need to take notes, im just gonna tell you a story. This ship behind me left around 11 pm, on august 4th 1863. Most of the passengers were tired, in their cabins, and fell into blissful sleep. I was quiet, always calm. Safely away from the shore, the captain benjamin are took aboard the hurricane decks. Ironically their conversation turned to the danger of steamboat travel. Just before midnight, a man interrupted them with news that a fire had broken out at the far end of the boat, and a carpenter shot beneath the ladies cabin. Things get frenetic. The captain hastily departed to find the first minute. Warning bells climber, flames rose quickly. The carpenter shot, disturbed without his clothes, or his shoes on. He tried to put out the flames with water buckets. The blaze o