it is my pleasure and honor to introduce our guest speaker, rachel devlin. who is an award-winning historian and associate professor at rutgers university since 2011. whose interests are in the politics of girlhood, sexuality and race in the postwar united states. she is the author of relative intimacy, father's and daughters in postwar culture. and she received her phd from yale university and currently lives in brooklyn, new york. she has published several articles in the journal of social history. the yale journal of law and the humanities and the american history. she is also received awards from american council of learned society. the do boys institute of harvard university, the charles warren center for studies in american history at harvard university and the social sciences research council. this evening, rachel devlin will discuss her latest work, "a girl stands at the door". the generation of young women who desegregated america's schools. this illustrates external bravery of young african-american woman who made racial integration in schools a po

now, here is historian, rachel devlin on the desegregation of american public schools.

then on tuesday we'll be at the enoch pratt free library or in baltimore where history professor rachel devlin will recount the desegregation of america's public schools through the actions of young african-american women. and on thursday we'll be in washington, d.c. on politics & prose bookstore for abc news dan abrams' talk on abraham lincoln's last legal case, a murder defense in 1859. that's a look at some of the events booktv will be covering this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> you can differ with people politically are, we all do that. democrats -- i'll accept the view we're sort of a little left of center party at least, they're right of certain moving right rapidly. maybe we're moving left. but politics was supposed to be about finding a way to overcome some of those differences through principled -- through extended discussion and a real legislatives process, through principled compromise. it wasn't supposed to be about one party winning on their own. the times, as you know, the times in history when