American racial history. Hes authored four books and coauthored one. Tonight he will be speaking on his most recent book this land is their land. Please join me in welcoming him. Good evening and thanks for coming out in the weather. The massachusetts sixstory cosociety is the first place i ever received Research Fellowship and i believe that was way back in 1998. I will never forget, coming here and the first document i looked at when i was here was the missionary journal of john cotton junior. John cotton junior was the son of the legendary minister of boston and has a big shoes to fill he didnt fill them. He wound up a missionary on Marthas Vineyard and eventually he fell out with the proprietor there and ended up in plymouth and got into some shenanigans with his female parishioners and ended up in charlestown south carolina. What i will never forget from this document it was only meant for his own private use. It was filled with a series of questions and answers that he had engage
Work. To get informed straight from the sources. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word from the Nations Capital to wherever you are. Its the opinion that matters the most. Its what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. As we come to the National Holiday of thanksgiving, we know that theres an awful lot of mythology that wet grew up with about what happened on that first thanksgiving and today we havee for you a scholar who has tried to look at what really happened att that time and put the history up against the mythology and talk to us about what is the real story during that time. David is the professor at George Washington university. You got your masters from william and mary. He wants to make sure we get that up. You get a little bit of props for both places. The most recent book that we will share with you in a followup note is called this land is their land the Plymouth Colony and troubled history of thanksgiving. The book was published in 2019 and professor silverman has
Grandnephew of George Washington through his brother. Writing at uc berkeley covering the rugby team. On parmalict reporting and cambodia. He has interviewed many important leaders. Also to publications for you know, the Atlantic Monthly and the new york times. He is the author of two other books. My brother my enemy. Escape. s greatest he has received three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his articles. Most importantly among all of this he has been one of the Research Fellows at the mount vernon Research Fellows. He is somebody who puts us off to go cover a war. That is unusual but we are very accommodating. Welcome him in suggesting presenting his newest book read writing with riding with george. Lets give a warm welcome to him. [applause] phillip thank you very much. It is obvious a incredible honor to speak here at the home of George Washington. Is the best home in america. Thank not only Stephen Mcleod who runs the program and the chief curator. Mary thompson who is a chief histori
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