i'm beth seufer buss, the program director and. it is my pleasure to welcome you to bookmarks. anybody's first time here. welcome. you may not know bookmarks is a literary arts nonprofit and our mission is to cultivate community by bringing of all ages together with books and authors who educate, inspire, challenge and entertain. we're so excited you're here with us tonight. and it's my pleasure to hand tonight's event over to laura schober, bookmarks administrator who's going to moderate event and introduce our featured author. pretty good evening and everybody hear me okay? okay. awesome. i am here to introduce our wonderful author here this evening, kathleen duval she is a professor of history at the university of north carolina at chapel, where she teaches early american and american indian history. her previous work includes independence lost, which was a finalist for the washington prize and native ground indians and colonists in the heart of the continent. she is coauthor of give me liberty and coeditor of interpreting a continent voices from colonial america. you would