A bit on may 19th a professor of law and taxation at the university of virginia law school, and a former chief of staff of the joint committee on ten sanction will speak about his research and that committees records and history of the joint committee. And on may 26, we host another professor of Political Science science he will discuss her research on a book manuscript about the politics of National Identification documents in the United States, in the 20th century. An Important Mission of the center is promoting Scholar Research in the records of the senate, the house of representatives, and advancing the stony of the history of congress. This researcher top series helps us gauge fully that mission is being met, and we do so by regularly hosting scholars who have conducted research in the house of the senate record, or who have written significant books in the history of congress. And todays a much anticipated talk, we hear about one of those very significant looks on the history of
Force in eastern ukraine. She said putin would never tell me because i was the minister msn not. Unfortunately it happened. The violence in the conciliation and the story of the book is the story of an invisible line across the prairie landscape, and its creation and its contested meanings during the civil war era and the difficulty of the people along that line to move on with their lives in the late 19th century. The violent dispossession of group after Group Beginning with the ice age indians continuing through the mormons who had moved to western missouri under joseph smith entered the civil war era freedom and the question of whether kansas territory would be free and so the violence of the 1850s is really about the question but it becomes wrapped in so much more. Typical to other frontier locations of water and access to raising millions the magnifying credibly. Bleeding kansas is what will make a territory and inflates date from spreading into kansas. It is mostly missouri settl
Happens in a loving way that there is a great move back one but coming out on the pipeline so then it just started like that and here you are. I love the foot the fact that you are here. The nonfiction bookstore and the categories of culture and thank you for all of that. Want to introduce you doctor niles, thank you so much b17. I am proud to be introducing my friend and colleague as a fierce intellectual force also one of the nicest and warmest people youll ever meet as an author and University Teacher prize winning works but first the family getting freedom next the house on the diamond hill to follow those with the study of race and gender dark tourism then memories of slavery. Also a writer of fiction and feminist essays and the cherokee rose is set on present day georgia. The Publishers Weekly pick in 2015. And another book that all georgians should read with the department of american culture, history and womens studies. 2011 Macarthur Foundation fellow. [applause] her current w
Cow with that important line so with those banks through canada. And i grew up in the free state. And they took the position here at the university of missouri michigan 2,002. And when i got here i had to learn my place in the midwest because michigan is not the same as ohio. So one of the reasons is because of that international border. So i explored this with my students with the graduates from of years ago but one of the things that we did was go on local history to hers with the africanamerican culture back in an arbor. Said to focus on the underground railroad and then ive learned for the first time just how active michigan has been active in the underground railroad and to recognize in our town of anbar for and arbour i hope you will go there im sure you have been there but hat exhibit but it was very small. So that your we did research and projects that is what got me into local history in this area regarding the underground railroad. That is our starting with the underground ra
Affairs intellectual force. I want you to also know shes one of the nicest people you will ever get to meet. In addition to that she is an author, University Teachers ad public historian. She has two prizewinning works of afro afroamerican and natie american instead. The ties that bind us to open afro cherokee family and slavery of freedom. Published in 2005. Next the house on the diamond hill published in 2010. She follows those works for the study of race and gender in southern ghost stories titled tales from a haunted south. Published in 2015. She is also a writer of fiction, academic articles on indigenous womens history and feminist essays. Her debut novel is cherokee ros rose. The novel was named and publishers week weekly pick [laughing] is particularly as well. You should pick it up. In 2015. And selected for her books all of georgia should read. She teaches at the university of michigan as you heard in the departments of american culture, afroamerican african studies, history,