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chicago if it s on our shelves, it s history. my name is bjorn scapton and i will be the host for today s episode of a house divided. and we will be discussing a house built by slaves with the author of that fine book professor jonathan w white and will be talking with john in just a moment here. this program is coming to you from abraham lincoln book shop in chicago. we are a retail bookshop in independent bookshop 83 years 83 years old now. independent antiquarian bookshop. we specialize in american history and specifically that means books about the life and presidency. of abraham lincoln the us civil war and the us presidency we carry both old and new books antiquarian books that we sell on the second and market and new books like this one. you can get from abraham lincoln book shop. we also have many other historical artifacts you can get from us autographs photographs prints statuary. you see a couple of bus here there s teddy roosevelt. there s abraham lincoln by ....
episode of a house divided. and we will be discussing a house built by slaves with the author of that fine book professor jonathan w white and will be talking with john in just a moment here. this program is coming to you from abraham lincoln book shop in chicago. we are a retail bookshop in independent bookshop 83 years 83 years old now. independent antiquarian bookshop. we specialize in american history and specifically that means books about the life and presidency. of abraham lincoln the us civil war and the us presidency we carry both old and new books antiquarian books that we sell on the second and market and new books like this one. you can get from abraham lincoln book shop. we also have many other historical artifacts you can get from us autographs photographs prints statuary. you see a couple of bus here there s teddy roosevelt. there s abraham lincoln by george bissell our website come and see us on the website. it s a lincoln book shop.com you will be able ....
and you can see her right here on the screen. unfortunately another panelists kerry lane merritt had a family emergency a while ago and and let us know that she would not be to participate today. so just in terms of this panel, i would like to just put forward a few framing remarks on the 1862 moment and then let the speakers go for around 10 minutes each. i deliver their remarks maybe talk amongst each other raise some questions for each other. i ll be happy to facilitate that and then really open it up for q&a with the audience and another reminder do come up to the mic if you have a question. so in most conventional histories of the civil war the year 1863 is often taken as the turning point of the war the euro significant union military victories at gettysburg and vicksburg and most importantly the year president abraham lincoln issued the historic emancipation proclamation. but from the vantage point of indian country in the west 1862 emerges as a crucial market du ....
in the chat from atlanta history centers museum store. we live in atlanta. you can come pick it up from us or we will ship it to you if you re in domestic us shipping. as adolf and jim talk this evening if you have questions for them, please drop those in the q&a and we will get to as many of them as we can by the end of the talk just gonna briefly introduce to the two speakers and then turn it over to them because to dig into tonight adolf reed juniors a political scientist at the university of pennsylvania. he s the author of class notes the jesse jackson phenomenon w e b dubois and pull an american political thought and stirring in the jug. he s written articles for many publications, but including the progressive black agenda and many others. he s been politically active since the 1960s has been all over the south and lots of other places in the country all detailed in the book. he is in conversation tonight with james oaks. gem is a 19th century historian of americ ....