Good evening, everyone. Welcome, we are happy youre here tonight, very happy to have Megan Kate Nelson with us with her book the 3cornered war, the union, the consistory and native people in their fight for the rest. This is an engrossing narrative account which shows how the civil war, the indian wars and western expansion were all interconnected. The 1860s were a time of National Conflict which has north and south and the American West was the resource involves letters and diaries, military records and oral histories, and maps from that time. Nelson writes about nine individuals who worked toward Self Determination and the fight for control of the region. Some of these people are well known to us like frontiersmen kit carson. Others like juanita who we get to know. Their stories were lost to history until now and to unearth their stories show the important of individual actions even in the midst of a larger military conflict. The book earned a star review in Library Journal and histo
Enjoy book tv, now it over the weekend on cspan2 read. Robert wilson is with us today courtesy of paul and heather hamilton. He is the author of Matthew Brady, portraits of the nation and explore king a biography of clarence kane. He is the editor of the american scholar, a former editor of preservation and the founding literary editor of civilization a farmer book editor empowers we use today in the editor of the Washington Post book world. His essays reviews infections have appeared in numerous publications including american scholar, the american short fiction, the atlantic monthly,ti the new republic, the smithsonian, the Washington Post magazine, and the wilsonn quarterly. And on the opinion and book review of the boston globe three times, yesterday, and the Washington Post. He lives in virginia please give a warm savannah welcome to robert wilson. [applause]. Robert thank you chris, i appreciate that introduction. I hope your app works a lot better than the one done for the iowa
Robert wilson is with us today courtesy of paul and heather hamilton. Bob is the author of Matthew Brady, portraits of a nation and the explorer king, a biography of Clarence King. He is the editor of the american scholar, former editor of preservation and the founding literary editor of civilization. A former book editor and columnist for u. S. Today and a former editor at the Washington Post book world. His essays reviews and fiction have appeared in numerous publications, including the american scholar, the american short fiction, the atlantic monthly, the new republic and the smithsonian, Washington Post magazine and the wilson quarterly. And on the oped opinion and book review pages of the boston globe. The New York Times, u. S. Today and the Washington Post. He lives in manassas, virginia. Please give a warm savannah welcome to robert wilson. [applause] thank you, chris. I appreciate that introduction. Im hoping your app works better than the app that was done for. He Iowa Caucus
Not unlike her subject she is one of the only academically trained young female space flight historians running for a general audience. Hosted by discover magazine. Its also a Youtube Channel with over 325,000 subscribers. Among them the unexplained files. Please give a warm welcome to Amy Shira Teitel [applause]. Good morning everyone. Try to live up to everything. Who here has heard of the story mercury 13. There is a decent number of hands. There was no way to print my talk. If you dont know the story of that mercury 13 i will explain it all later. It is a story of everything and air quotes right now. Thirteen women who trained for spaceflights and took on nasa with the goal of writing the wrong of sexism. Nasa at the time did not allow women into the astronaut corps. They decided they needed to have this change. It went all the way to the house subcommittee hearing. It didnt work. The spaceflight pioneers were astronaut candidates. According to nbc. They trained for space flight. A
The 13th annual savannah book festival presented by georgia power, bob, david and nancy, the philip e and answered be foundation. We are especially grateful to our sponsors for this glorious menu, the Trinity United Methodist church and we would also like to welcome our litter artery numbers and individual donors today. It is through your support that we are able to make Successful Events free to the public. 90 percent of our revenue comes from our donors and members and we thank you. This years festival is full of great events and authors and we dont want to miss any of the fun. So, download the new book savannah book festival 2020 app on your phone. And you can be in the know. About everything we have going this year. If you need more info about downloading this app, you can find in the back of your program. Before we get started i have a couple of housekeeping notes. Robert wilson will be signing festival purchased copies of his book in the square immediately following the presentat