c-span booktv. today's program with by blood on c-span2's booktv. if there's time at the end for q & a for with the authors we ask you to could the microphone in the center of the room. before today's program begins i would ask you to please silence your cellphones, and if you do choose to take photographs of our presenters, please turn off the flash. and with that, i would like to tell you this program is called -- includes telling the very truths the holidays africaon descended anymore early illinois, 1720 do 1830 with unanimous-lisa cox. the bone and sin uof the land and scott heerman. and the alchemy of slavery by larry currie and steven cult with that said our moderator, anna-lisa cox. thank you. >> thank you. we're really glad to be here today, and it's just a delight and an honor. i'm going to get straight into this because we don't have much time and there's a lot to discuss. actually, a lot of history to discuss but we'll try not to put you to sleep. i'm anna-lisa cox, fellow at harvard university's hump chins -- hutchins for african-american research and i work with a fan

c-span tv. today's program will be broadcast live on c-span2's booktv. if there's time at the end of the presentation for a q and a, we ask you to use the microphones located at the center of the room and please speak clearly so our viewers at home can follow along. i also asked you silence your cell phone at this time if you do choose to take photos during the presentation, that your turn off your flash and consideration of our presenters. with that said, please welcome carrie cranston and eve ewing. [applause] >> hi, how are you? this will be fast. we only have 45 minutes. what carrie and i decided to do is i would talk about the book and read a few poems to get us started and then i will hop back over here and he will ask me questions and we will try to leave time for you to ask questions. only questions are not embarrassed to have broadcast live on c-span2. so think of your questions. my name is even -- eve ewing. each of the poems in the book is in conversation with a report from 1922, called the negro in chicago which was an analysis of why the race riots to place and how it could be prevented. how rac

c-span's "q&a." >> next, kristin hoganson talks about her book, "the heartland: an american story." she challenges the notion that the midwest is merely a collection of flyover states, 's collections.on this talk is part of the fifth annual midwestern conference hosted by the helen stein center at granville university. >> good morning. my name is eric. i am an associate professor of african-american studies and history at the university of illinois or vanish and pain. -- urbana champaign. ours my honor to introduce keynote speaker, my friend and colleague, dr. kristin hoganson. she is professor of united states history at the university of illinois at urbana champaign.

c-span's "q&a." >> next, kristin hoganson talks about her book, "the heartland: an american story." she challenges the notion that the midwest is merely a collection of flyover states, 's collections.on this talk is part of the fifth annual midwestern conference hosted by the helen stein center at granville university. >> good morning. my name is eric. i am an associate professor of african-american studies and history at the university of illinois or vanish and pain. -- urbana champaign. ours my honor to introduce keynote speaker, my friend and colleague, dr. kristin hoganson. she is professor of united states history at the university of illinois at urbana champaign. she specializes in the history of the united states, cultures of u.s. imperialism, transnational history, and the midwest. professor hoganson has enjoyed a productive and accomplished academic career sense achieving her phd in history from yale in 1995. following graduate school, she taught at harvard for five years before accepting a position in history at the university of illinois. in terms of her professional service, she is the vice president for the society of historians for american foreign relati

foundation, alpha wood fungs, the tribune, 3l real estate and c-span book-the program will be broadcast live on c-span2's booktv. if there's time for a q & a session, we ask you to step up to the microphones in the center of the room and speak clearly into the microphone. please silence all cellphones and if you're going to take photographs during the presentation, you turn off all flash. with that said, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome, shannon of wbez chicago. [applause] >> i'm really lucky to get to introduce alex today. he has been reporting from country's heartland for decade. written four books including the 18991 book, there nor children here, which the new york public library select as one of the 150 most important books of the 20th century. he also collaborated on the interrupters, a film about men and women in chicago, who interrupt conflicts before they become vie violent and also hand been heard multiple times on this american life.le he was won two peabodys, the robert f. kent journalism squared the george polk award. i this book is an american summer, love and death in chicago. and that book he reports that over the l