and the phillis wheatley high school marching band performed. and so she marched down that highway. you know, it's it's totally clean. no cars have ever been on it, and it's supposed to be this big celebration, right? like progress has come to the fifth ward and she's, like, this wasn't progress. like my neighborhood has been demolished like i'm not celebrating yet. i'm a teenager. i can't. what can i except like trauma button on this highway go about my life and so like even at the time, i think, you know, a lot of people were really troubled by the creation of these highways. and in cities across the country, people revolted like there was a mass movement of against highway construction. the original freeway revolts in the the 1960s. you know, tens of thousands of people protested in golden gate park, san francisco, in washington, d.c., you know, black and white people together, multiracial coalition of people protested highway construction. and a lot of these people effectively stopped highways like freeway fighters in the sixties, erased highway lines from maps before they could

people and the founding area that wrote sonnets after reading this great literature including phillis wheatleynd john quincy adams who as president would wake up in the white house read cicero. and he would ride the sonnets. i did that for year and the whole project change my life. change what i thought about how to be good person how to be a good citizen and how to be a lifelong learner and what i've discovered for the founders happiness meant not only feeling good but the pursuit of long-term virtue. it's clarifying to see your task every day not as doing whatever feels good in the moment. self-improvement character proven to be your best self being a lifelong learner. that's what happened with all these great wisdom authorities from the east and the west and cut to the chase of these takeaways, it changed the way reed. i had gotten on behalf at the reading outside of immediate deadline for the project i had to do and now i'm not always catching the event that i have a rule which is i'm not about to browse or surf until i've done my reading every day. it's amazing it will change your life. e

and then the next night, and also lucy terry, prince preceded phillis wheatley, the first african-american poet. and so deerfield is now also marking the locations and places where we're both native american, had an important center field and were black. americans had an importance in deerfield. so the deerfield is very open to all this is in the conflict filling memorial association and memorial hall were really in documenting the black presence and the indian point of view in deerfield and that's really my favorite standalone museum in america. so i recommend if you're passing through deerfield, go to that for company memorial association, it's it's fun and very illuminating. yes, sir. thank you very much. mr. swanson. there's a great talk and i enjoyed your first book and look forward to seeing the mini series. whatever happened to eunice. do you know the reason i. because empire, the summer moon. you want to. they had a you know girl that they captured and she was there and assimilated for ten years. they got her back and she wanted go back. so whatever happened, use eunice williams ne

the book i think influenced america was the poems by phillis wheatley. it showed that slaves are smart. george washington was influenced by phillis wheatley's writings about liberty and freedom. thank you. >> and go to our website, cspan.org/booksthatshapedameric . up at the top, viewer input, and you can send us your video. maybe we will play it on the air. our guest for the past 90 minutes, talking about common sense and thomas paine, has been richard bell of the university of maryland. history professor. we appreciate your time. we will see you next time on books that shaped america. >> if you are enjoying book tv, sign up for our newsletter using the qr code on the screen to receive the schedule of upcoming programs, other discussions, book festivals, and more. book tv, every sunday on c-span 2, or any time at booktv.org. television for serious readers. >> weekends on c-span 2 are an intellectual feast. every saturday, american history to the documents america's story. funding comes from these television companies and more, good and comcast. ladies a