CSPAN2 Book Discussion On We Gather Together February 28, 2016
Mrs. Young is a historian and independent scholar who previously taught at princeton university. [applause]. Scenic good evening and thanks for coming out tonight. I thank you for that introduction, which does a nice job of setting up my talk for today. This project began as a dissertation when i was at columbia. I went to graduate school to be a 19th century southern history historian, so i was a bit surprised to find myself writing about a barely recent historical moment. As i was in graduate school during the george w. Bush years a lot of historians were asking questions about how to explai...