we are exceptionally pleased to have with us doctors erica armstrong dunbar from the university of delawareith us tonight. you might have seen or featured in "the news york times" recently and on many npr programs but this is where she belongs talking about a very important subject or she received her m.a. and ph.d. from columbia university. in 2011 she became the an awkward director of the program on african-american history in the library company of philadelphia. she is the founding director. her first book their fragile freedom, african-american women and emancipation published by yale extremely well-regarded and important study and an understudy topic up to that point so the perfect person to take on the challenge to recover the story of ona judge. the salt if erica a round of applause. [applause] c good evening everyone. happy black history month. here i am. so first let me offer a few thank yous of course to douglas bradburn who invited me. i really think there is no other place that i should be giving this talk. can you see me? i'm vertically challenged. i'm going to turn this. see i

erica armstrong dunbar recounts the life of a slave. it's book to be in prime time starting at 80 stern. this weekend, c-span cities to her along with help for comcast cable partners will examine charlottesville virginia. we visit the university of virginia to see their exhibit on william faulkner and the first writer in residence. >> we have a lot of wonderful artifacts from his time at uva. many that have come from uva sources. among other things we have the typewriter he was issued by the university, even with the university property stamp on the back. we have a jacket he wore, as you can see when you look at the jacket, it's pretty torn up and ratty. he liked to keep his close for a long time. he left this jacket hanging in his office when he went on his last trip to oxford mississippi when he passed away. >> on sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, we will travel to thomas jefferson's monticello. >> if you had visited monticello say 20 years ago, you would have, and just seeing jefferson's beautiful neoclassical villa