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Introduce my colleague sarah fling. She started at the White House Historical association in 2019 as a graduate public history fellow before joining as a historian in 2021 her research focuses on free and enslaved workers the first ladies and the white house collection serious. Sarahs previous Work Experience includes internships at Historic Sites such as George Washingtons mount vernon and the frick pittsburg. She received her bachelors degree in history from the university of pittsburgh and her masters in public history from american university. Sarah is originally from york, pennsylvania. W...

A roundtable discussion about president Lyndon Johnson and his white house telephone tapes, the crown jewels in the lbj library archives. When he opened his library, 50 years ago this week, he declared it is all here. The story of our time, with the bark off. Theres no better example of that unvarnished history better than a 650 hours of telephone conversation that obedient tape during his time in office, covering the key issues of the day, he has recorded this, opening an exporting window into Johnson Building a Great Society, fighting a war on poverty, legislating for civil rights and strugg...

Native american history, and she has special interest in the interactions between indigenous people, and people of african descent during the 19th century. So her first book was race in the Cherokee Nation, 17 in the 19th century. Her most recent book is called choctaw confederates, the American Civil War and indian country. If you recognize the title, that book is the subject of tonights talk. Its also basically brandnew. I noticed its official publication date was two years ago. Its a twoweek birthday for your book this evening. Were excited to share it with you. You can find it in all the u...

Any of that at all whereas i tend to try to balance might Corporate Media with independent review will like democracy now and you hear all the time on democracy now about soldiers refusing to deploy. I just wondered if you saw any signs of that . Thanks. Thats a great question. The short answer somewhat tellingly is i think in my experience at fort hood and among the folks that i knew there, the short answer is basically no. I had one friend who is involved with a relatively oriented Veterans Advocacy Group and certainly there is in this country a really lively antiwar Veterans Movement made u...

Tonights talk and its also basically brand new. I noticed its official publication date was exactly two weeks ago. So its a twoweek birthday for your book this evening and were excited to share it with you. You can find it in all of the usual bookstore places as well as directly from the university of north carolina, press the publisher. So the talk will be around 30 to 35 minutes or so. Well have plenty of time for discussion at the end and the way we do discussion if youve been to these events before youll know we do all through the q a feature in zoom so you can type in questions to the q a...