And i just want to say that this book, americas black capital, is a really profound new way of looking at the history of atlanta. And so its only fitting that his first author talk in atlanta, be here at the Atlanta History Center are many of you all already have read the book, but some of you all might not might not be aware of his background. But professor ober is, a professor of history, and hes also the founding director of the center for the study popular music at the university of and he received his ph. D. From indiana university, bloomington and he received his undergraduate degree a bachelor of art in history from, Morehouse College and. Hes previously two books. His first book was black power radical politics and he wrote hip hop revolution. The culture and politics of rap. So this is his third book. And having read his first book, it was a great book. But this book broke new ground. And without further ado, i want to welcome to the stage dr. Jeffrey oji obaa. Good everyone t
Is aprofound new way of looking at the history of atlanta. And so its only fitting that his first author talk in atlanta, be here at the Atlanta History Center are many of you all already have read the book, but some of you all might not might not be aware of his background. But professor ober is, a professor of history, and hes also the founding director of the center for the study popular music at the university of and he received his ph. D. From indiana university, bloomington and he received his undergraduate degree a bachelor of art in history from, Morehouse College and. Hes previously written two books. His first book was black power radical politics and African American identity, and he wrote hip hop revolution. The culture and politics of rap. So this is his third book. And having read his first book, it was a great book. But this book broke new ground. And without further ado, i want to welcome to the stage dr. Jeffrey oji obaa. Good everyone to say its a pleasure to be here
Our speaker candice shy hooper, our fine careers on capitol hill and as a lobbyist, candice earned a masters degree in history with a concentration in military history from the George Washington university. She has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the journal of the ulysses s and julia d grant home, and the board of directors of president lincolns her work in the historical field has also included publications in the New York Times. The journal of military history and the michigan war studies review her book lincolns generals wives for women who influenced the civil war, for better or for worse, won three nati awards. Her most recent publication, delivered under fire, absalom the first biography of thel, childhood friend ulysses us grant. And while serving as a special agent of the Us Post Office department, he was often called grants postmaster general in his role as agent of the Us Post Office department during grants presidency. Mark passage of the ku klux klan act of 1871.
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Explorers in the sort of interior west. So as i told you all last time, weve proceeding pretty chronologically up to this point. This lecture is going kind of spin us out onto a thematic topic. So were going to start right around Thomas Jefferson, who we left off talking about on monday, but were going to jump the way through forward to the usmexico war and the civil war. And so a lot of the topics were talking about today, theyre also going to come up in our future lectures. So just know that if you feel slightly unmoored when it comes to what time were in, im going to do my best to signpost, but just flag me down. Youre like, weve suddenly jumped 20 years. Thats going to happen today because its a more of a thematic topic. But what i really want us to get out of this is a deeper insight into this question. Weve been talking throughout the class, which is once you have an empire, how you exert control over it and how is the new us federal government, which we started to talk about on