she stuck to fay yarbrough professor of history and an associate dean at rice university. dr. yabra as an expert on 19th century native american history, and she's got special interest in the interactions between indigenous people and people of african descent during the 19th century. so her first book was race and the cherokee nation sovereignty in the 19th century, and her most recent book is called choctaw confederates the american civil war in indian country. and of course you recognize the title. that book is the subject of tonight'

she stuck to fay yarbrough professor of history and an associate dean at rice university. dr. yabra as an expert on 19th century native american history, and she's got special interest in the interactions between indigenous people and people of african descent during the 19th century. so her first book was race and the cherokee nation sovereignty in the 19th century, and her most recent book is called choctaw confederates the american civil war in indian country. and of course you recognize the title. that book is the subject of tonight's talk and it's also basically brand new. i noticed it's official publication date was exactly two weeks ago. so it's a two-week birthday for your book this evening and we're excited to share it with you. you can find it in all of the usual bookstore places as well as directly from the university of north carolina, press the publisher. so the talk will be around 30 to 35 minutes or so. we'll have plenty of time for discussion at the end and the way we do discussion if you've been to these events before you'll know we do all through the q&a feat

yarbrough for giving us such a wonderful talk answering the questions as well. we really appreciate the conversation and the time you took and everyone i think is going to be interested to rush out or at least go to the website of that choice and purchase your book chuck talk confederates, and i think you'll enjoy it as you know, we we've intimated in the q&a session. there's lots more in the book and then you've heard about even tonight. so it's definitely worth going out and getting it. c-span has hundreds of programs on first ladies, including archival footage interviews and book talks. here's a look at one of our programs. i feel quite sure that what the american people lack is knowledge. i feel quite sure that. the american people if they have knowledge and leadership can meet any crises just as well as they met it over and over again in the past. i can remember the cries of horror when my husband said we had to have 50,000 airplanes and a given period but we had them. and the the difference was that the people were told. what the reason was and why and i h