Events this saturday free to the public. 90 of our revenue comes from our donors and members, and we thank you. Before we get started, i have some housekeeping notes. First, amarillo socks who is one of the authors who is scheduled to make a presentation at 315 and the Lutheran Church fellowship hall, she has had to cancel. Mr. Larson will be signing festival purchase copies of his book immediately following his presentation. If youre planning to stay for the next author, after this presentation, please move forward to fill the seats as the venue entities. This will help the ushers get people seated for the next session. Please turn off your cell phones so they do not disrupt the presentation. We also asked that you not use of flash photography. Later, as you exit the venue, you will see our volunteers with yellow buckets in the back. They will be happy to accept your generous donation to the savanna book festival. You can also make donations on the festivals app and website. Please he
His numerous books include the return of George Washington, a New York Times bestseller, to the edges of the earth, winner of the 2019 National Outdoor book award. And some are for the gods, the scopes trial and the american the continued debate oversight of religion for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for history. He was an inaugural library fallow at National Library for the study of George Washington located on the grounds ofra mout vernon. He lives in malibu, california. Please give a warm savannah welcome to edward larson. [applause] thank you very much. Youre welcome. Thank you very much, thank you for having me back to savannah. In the spring when the essay deals are out. Thats always my favorite time. And as note i i taught for 20 years at university of georgia. Thats what i started as a young professor, and eventually was chair of the History Department and those are some of my happiest days. And and i want to give a shout t today two of my oldest friends in the world, or
Help. On sunday i said, if we really did this seriously and effectively, we would come up with a very different narrative of American History. That may not be attainable and may not even be desirable. We live in the real world and School Boards and publishers may have problems with that. So, there is another approach. That is what i want to suggest today. That is to look at, if you like the narrative we have, one which i critiqued yesterday. That eastwest narrative of American Growth and expansion of the nation. So look at that and identify in the narrative, a missing strand. That missing strand would be the native americans. What im going to talk about this morning is kind of a large swath of American History where i pull out native americans from out of it and say without a native american presence or power, these things would not have happened as they did. It will take you about five minutes to say, wait a minute thomas some of this is a little sketchy. Because history is complex. I
our panel on the history of terrorism, new avenues of research. so we areroundtable, each going to speak for five to 10 minutes, somewhat informally. we will talk about specific aspects of our research. introducer,ator and i will be the most general in my comments. of timewill have a lot i am anticipating over an hour to talk amongst ourselves and to take questions and comments and feedback from you this a fully, experiential, interactive exercise as we proceed. my name is randy law, i am a russian and soviet historian by , but i have been working in the field of terrorism for a decade or more. the project that brought us together is an edited volume done by the routledge history of terrorism. large reference work that i was interested in putting together as something that would be comprehensive. that would read as a cohesive book, not just a collection of articles. during the writing of it, contributors share their chapters with each other, there was a good bit of dialogue
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