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Transcripts For CSPAN2 2016 Mississippi Book Festival 20160820

great depression, other gaps we had, and so i started plunging in the collection and i happened upon this is years ago works progress administration papers, the wpa in mississippi compiled county histories, and one of the topics was war. block. they were. that meant there was a lot more out there. in addition to looking at private collection at world war ii started reading county newspapers from all around the state. i did want to try to cover all areas of the state. i have succeeded to some degree but actually not as much as i d like to because some towns where i thought there would be letters to the editor about publication from the boys overseas were not any. there could be just to the addition of the paper to get a microfilm that was not the addition that had the letters. the different additions used to be. i do not know if early on if there are two or three editions of the paper. i did the best i could. i found some wonderful letters. i tried to have men who served

Transcripts For CSPAN2 2016 Mississippi Book Festival 20160821

mississippi or their hometown in many instances. they were going overseas to fight for a cause. they were really behind it of the most part all of the ones that i found were willing to go and serve and in some cases people wonder why we had not been there before. i had one letter from an individual who fought with the canadian expeditionary forces. he went early went early because he thought it was a just cause. we always read about people saying, what if the south had won the civil war? what my question is, what if we had not entered that war? the world would be a vastly different place. as for its relevance today i would not have know this if i d not been researching this book, again i was not aware of the consequences. all of this trouble in the middle east that we are having right now, so so many of those countries involved, involved after world war i. promises were made after world war i and we do not look up to them. conflict is still resulting today because of that. so

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Panel Discussion On Mississippi History 20160829

their works. you can find the schedule for a when they ll be available to sign in your program. and i encourage you al all to visit with him. thank you for doing this. this is wonderful and we re excited about it. our moderator for the panel today is jerry healthridge, the distinguished author of theodore roosevelt and the assassin and the campaign of 1912 and the fantastic book high cotton. . thank you, chris. thank you for choosing to come to the mississippi history panel this afternoon. we re fortunate we have authors of four really interesting becomes that cover the range, the spire range of mississippi history, from the earliest historic epic to the late 20 them century, so we can t ask for a better panel of authors and a wider range of mississippi history to talk about today. i would like to introduce the authors before we start. to my far left, is jim barnett. he is retired director of historic properties, division of the mississippi department of archives and hi

Transcripts For CSPAN2 Panel Discussion On Mississippi History 20160917

available-for-sale outside today and they will all be signinggn copies of their work. you can find the schedule for when they will be available to sign in your program. i encourage you to visit with them. thank you for doing this. this is wonderful and we are excited about it. our moderator for the panel today is jerry is the author of theodore roosevelt in the assessment. assassination. thank you chris. thank you all for choosing to come to the mississippi history panel this afternoon. we are fortunate that we have authors for interesting books that cover the entire range of mississippi history from the earliest historical up to the late 20th century. we couldn t ask for a better panel of authors that a wider range of mississippi history tot talk about today. i would like to introduce the authors. to my far left is jim barnett. retired director of historic properties division of the mississippi department of archives and history. author of two books published by the univer

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