Good evening everyone and thank you so much for joining us. My name is bennett and im a bookseller and Events Coordinator and im going to be your host tonight for literati featuring myles harvey. Lets get underway and i want to extend a thank you for your support of ourVirtual Events programming. We feel lucky that were able to continue to offer Virtual Events and we wouldnt be able to do that and hear about the king of confidence if it wasnt for you all showing up so thank you for doing that. Id like to quickly go over our policy for tonights event. We ask you keep your a video feed disabled throughout the duration of the that event and if you dont we will disable it for you and if you enable it a second time we will have toreview you from the event we appreciate your cooperation. I just wanted to briefly go over our plan for tonight, a reading by both miles and after myles reads from the king of confidence which was published this last tuesday and donovan reads from his book publishe
Stay safe while voting in person. Its your voice, your vote right now on america this morning. Good tuesday morning, everyone. On this election day, a decisive day for the future of our democracy. Many are calling this the most consequenceal election of our lives. And its already under way. The votes in tiny dixville knox, new hampshire, were counts just after midnight and it was a biden sweep, 50. President trump and joe biden made their final pitch and the president ending his campaign in the same city where he ended his 2016 campaign. Nearly 100 Million People have already voted. Thats more than 70 of the total votes cast in 2016, but President Trump made news overnight after he claimed there could be violence in the streets if it takes several days to count all the votes. Overnight with election day upon us, the candidates delivering their closing arguments. Tomorrow we can put an end to a presidency that has failed to protect this nation. We will make America Great again. Thank yo
Stay safe while voting in person. Its your voice, your vote right now on america this morning. Good tuesday morning, everyone. On this election day, a decisive day for the future of our democracy. Many are calling this the most consequenceal election of our lives. And its already under way. The votes in tiny dixville knox, new hampshire, were counts just after midnight and it was a biden sweep, 50. President trump and joe biden made their final pitch and the president ending his campaign in the same city where he ended his 2016 campaign. Nearly 100 Million People have already voted. Thats more than 70 of the total votes cast in 2016, but President Trump made news overnight after he claimed there could be violence in the streets if it takes several days to count all the votes. Overnight with election day upon us, the candidates delivering their closing arguments. Tomorrow we can put an end to a presidency that has failed to protect this nation. We will make America Great again. Thank yo
Four this evening. I am evan dolly, on behalf of the History Program here, welcome. I should say at the outset, we are able to hold this top thanks to the generous funding of the history fund which is supporting this event. And let me jump straight to introducing our speaker for the evening. Our speaker for this evening is doctor robert chiles. He studied music and found the true faith and began a ph. D. In history in 2012 at the university of maryland. The top he will be giving this evening is a result of that ph. D. Dissertation, i believe. Yes. He has, in the course of this particular research for this project received a couple of prestigious honors the new York State Library Cunningham Research residency, and the new york state archives Ownership Trust hackman residency, to conduct research on governor alfred e. Smith, and as part of his next research project, on a Congress Woman from the state of new jersey and an advocate from the fair labors acts, he has received from the new Je
Voices in south jersey are heard and i think that im the person to do that. Im raising my family here, this isnt just my house but my home and my whole family lives in the area and understand what is happening in the community. Seat for second congressional district. I know the district, ive walked it, the people are good hardworking middleclass people that want somebody thats going to break their back to them and thats me. To beat Jeff Van Drew, we need to have a vision of what we want this country to look like Going Forward and for me that means focusing on social justice and moving out of the coronavirus and George Floyds death, that it will be really important to focus on the values of our community. The candidates will have their chance to square off on covid recovery, Climate Change, policing, health care and all the issues critical to the people of south jersey. Good evening and welcome to the john f Academic Center at Stockholm University here in Atlantic City. Im briana, for t