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Historian of the Harpers Ferry has stored part. This is a homecoming of sorts. He graduated with a ba in history. We are extremely excited to have him back here this evening. He has had a very long, very, and prestigious career. Entirere to recite his cv, we would be here until 7 00 this evening. This will be a shortened version of his accomplishments. Lecturer, aer, a guide, and a preservationist. He is a prominent civil war historian. He has had numerous appearances channel, theistory discovery channel, and a and e as a guest historian and he helped produce and the awardwinning Television Pr...

Www. The progressive professor. Com. I will come ron nibikov ron fineman. [applause] think you and i pursue your deduction today want to begin by thanking certain people. I want to thank stephanie for inviting me to speak here on my book. I want to thank cspan for agreeing to indeed take this event and put it on booktv in a few weeks. I want to also thank my sons David Fineman and paul fineman for aris being there for me. We are definitely very close family pretty want to also thank one of my colleagues and former students david who took me for courses at Broward College in Florida Atlantic un...

Why did you lead your forward with that . Jesse part of the reason why i got into writing about africanamerican history in washington, d. C. Was because of barack obama and his campaign. There was a lot of interest in African American history, having the first africanamerican president in the white house. I was lucky enough to be assigned by the Associated Press to cover obama that weekend. I remember pulling up to the obamas townhouse in chicago thinking about what book will i write next. And right at that spot is when it hit me. I got so excited about the topic and so i immediately called my...

Further surprise in the form of tonights speaker. A person who many of you probably know quite well. Dennis frye is the chief historian of the Harpers Ferry historic park. This is a homecoming of sorts. He graduated with a ba in history. We are extremely excited to have him back here this evening. He has had a very long, very, and prestigious career. If i were to recite his entire cv, we would be here until 7 00 this evening. This will be a shortened version of his accomplishments. He is a writer, a lecturer, a guide, and a preservationist. He is a prominent civil war historian. He has had num...

Brian what was the idea . Jesse the idea was to write a story about the africanamerican slaves who lived inside the white house. Back then, the country was still talking about how great and how unique it would be if an africanamerican president lived inside the white house. I said to myself, i understand that would be great but he cannot have been the first africanamerican to live there. And then the thought process went on so who were the first africanamericans to live there . We knew there were africanamerican butlers but i thought there had to be someone before them. I decided to write a bo...