doctor carole bucy was appointed davidson county, and karl dean. the author tennessee through time, the early years in tennessee through time the later years, these are the social study textbooks currently used out of fifth grade classrooms in numerous schools across tennessee and is also the author of history carved in stone, city, cemetery, the ywca of national. exercising the franchise exercising the body politic believe that women voters and public policy, 1945 to 1964 and several scholarly articles. she served as member of the board of directors of the presbyterian historical society philadelphia. and the tennessee historical society. as longtime advocate for local and state history she regularly conducts educator workshops on the incorporation of tennessee history into existing us history courses and is a frequent speaker across the state on a variety of historical subjects. history is boring, clearly they haven't heard carole bucy speak. she brings her subjects tremendous academic knowledge and deep and thorough research. a true passion for

. >> good afternoon, i'm carole bucy and i'm the moderator of this session, david zucchino's book, the rise of white

. >> good afternoon, i'm carole bucy and i'm the moderator of this session, david zucchino's book, the rise of white supremacy. it is honor for us to have the book here at the southern festival and david won pulitzer prize

. >>> good afternoon, i'm carole bucy, and i am the moderator of this session on david zucchino's book, "wilmington's lie, the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy," it's indeed an honor for us to have this book here at the southern festival, and because david has won the pulitzer prize for 2021 for nonfiction for this

. >> good afternoon, i'm carole bucy and i'm the moderator of this session, david zucchino's book, the rise of white supremacy. it is honor for us to have the book here at the southern festival and david won pulitzer prize for 2021 for nonfiction for this book. it is a very important book and i hope if you haven't read it, you will certainly be inspired to read it after our session today. david zucchino is a contributing writer to "the new york times" and most recent articles are about the war in afghanistan, the withdrawal and the overall condition of the country there. he did win a for pulitzer in south africa and he's been nominated for journalism four different times in addition to that. so without further due i want to introduce you to our author david zucchino? >> thank you, carole, wonderful to be here. i'm going to talk to maybe 10 or 15 minutes and give you sort of an overview of the book and what it's about and just sort of ground you and i think we will go to some questions from carole and then hopefully questions from you in the audience. so i'd like to begin today to talk

. >>> good afternoon, i'm carole bucy, and i am the moderator of this session on david zucchino's book, "wilmington's lie, the murderous coup of 1898 and the rise of white supremacy," it's indeed an honor for us to have this book here at the southern festival, and because david has won the pulitzer prize for 2021 for nonfiction for this book. it is a very important book, and i hope if you haven't read it, you will certainly be inspired to read it after our session today. david zucchino is a contributing writer to the "new york times." his most recent articles have been about the war in afghanistan, the withdrawal and the overall condition of the country there. he did win a pulitzer back in 1989 for his journalistic reporting after the apartheid in south africa. he's been nominated for journalism four different times in addition to that. so without further adieu, i want to introduce you to our author, david zucchino. thank you very much. >> thank you carole, it's wonderful to be here. i want to thank everybody for coming in. i'm going to talk for 10 or 15 minutes and give you an overvie