i'm carol busey. the moderator of this session on "wilmington's lie, the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy." it's an honor to have this book here at the southern festival and because david has won the pulitzer prize for 2021 for non-fiction for this book. it's a very i

carol busey. ms. . [applause] >> thank you, howard. really delighted to be here tonight, and it's always a pleasure to haven an opportunity to talk about nashville's history. now, i don't know about you, but in the interest of full disclosure, i'm going tout tell you right now i am not a native. now, i grew up in texas. i came here to graduate school before some of you were born, i'm sure, and i liked it so much, i've stayed ever since. ikand i just think this is a lovely place to be here at the hermitage. i remember coming here on a vacation in the family station wagon. we drove from bonham, texas, all the way to washington, d.c. to tour, for my parents to give my brother and me the tour of nation's capital, and we stop here at the hermitage. and i was message herrized. i hadd never -- mesmerized. it was a great experience, and i have enjoyed coming out here over the 47 years that i have been married to a tennessean and then coming out here to the hermitage for various events and various programs. now, i want to tell you a little bit

i'm carol busey. i'm the moderator of this session on "wilmington's lie, the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy." it's an honor to have this book here at the southern festival and because david has won the pulitzer prize for 2021 for non-fiction for this book. it's a very important book. i hope if you haven't read it, you will certainly be inspired to read it after our session today. david is a contributing writer to "the new york times." his most recent articles have been about the war in afghanistan, the withdrawal and the overall condition of the country there. he did win a pulitzer back in 1989 for his journalistic reporting of the apartheid in south africa. he has been nominated for journalism four different times in addition to that. so i want to introduce you to our author. thank you very much. >> thank you, carol. it's wonderful to be here. i want to thank everybody for coming in. i'm going to talk for 10 or 15 minutes and give you sort of an overview of the book and what i

and then historian carol busey talks about nashville's evolution from frontier outpost to bustling stater of 1812. and later, john roy price, senior policy adviser to president nixon, gives a behind scenes look at the 37th president's domestic agenda. that all starts now on american history tv. find a full schedule at c-span.org/history. here's lectures in history. ..