grant historic children's voices after robin bernstein talks for a bit. she'll be joined in converse nation by kevin quashie, who is the royce family professor of teaching excellence in english at brown university. he's the author or editor of four books. most recently, the sovereignty of quiet and beyond resistance in black culture and black aliveness or a poetics poetics of being black aliveness has been awarded to prizes. the james russell lowell prize from the modern languages association and the pegasus award for poetry criticism from the poetry foundation. so we are honored and pleased to welcome both robert robin bernstein and kevin quashie yee here with us this evening. and i'm delighted to turn the podium over to robin bernstein. welcome. thank you all so much. i am so thrilled to be here. thank you all for coming out tonight on this beautiful day. thank you. thank you, scott casper, for that lovely introduction. thank you. dan wolverton and stephanie corrigan for making this event possible. i think tied poor bookshop for supplying books for toni

thank robin bernstein. kevin quashie. what a conversation this is. this is what we hope to do with the american antiquarian society. to think about the past in all its complexity and its resonances for our own day. and you'vetonight. we're here to hear christopher christopher minty talk about his new book. christopher is joining us from the university of virginia, where he is an editor at the center for digital editing, which is a wonderful institution at uva. and maybe we'll talk a little bit at the end about what the work that you do there. he's also an elected fellow of the royal historical society in the united kingdom. he received his b.a., ph.d. from the university of stirling, scotland. he's held a number of different fellowships, including the bernard and irene schwartz fellowship, the new york historical society and, previously served as the assistant editor of the adams papers project and also the managing editor of john dickinson writings project. you want to join me. so i a lot of questions because this book unpacked a lot of different st