The Chautauqua Movement and women suffrage in the 19th century. Evolved fromhow it avoiding speakers in the earlier days to regularly including prosuffrage talks and spread to kansas in new york. The dwight d. Eisenhower library and museum hosted this event and provided the video. I would like to welcome our speaker so that we can learn more about the Chautauqua Movement. I will let her tell you about herself. Thank you for being here with us today. Ms. Bell thank you for having me. I was talking to dawn and samantha a couple of days ago and saying that i would have preferred and loved to have been there in person, and really looking forward to the day when i can visit and see the newly renovated museum. Until then, very thankful for technology that allows us to gather together today. I have lost the presentation. So i dont know if youre able to share the there it is. Great. Thank you. Presentation is based on some research that i did for my dissertation. Last may, which seems very lon
House. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u. S. Capitol Historical Society and the u. S. Supreme court Historical Society. We have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and Jane Campbell is the new president of the capitol Historical Society. On june 4, 1919, the 19th amend was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The suffragists used the white house to bring attention to their cause. Tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens right to vote. Before i introduce our speaker, i have a couple other introductions and things to share. First of all we have guests from Smith College here tonight, the Washington Club of Smith College. Stand up. Stand up for the Smith College. [ applause ] theyre our special guests tonight. Were honored to have them. I would also like to tell you a little bit about the White House Historical association and for those of you who have been with
Send three to four emails. Month. Tonight we welcome for contributors to the anthology reckoning, going to see if i get this right, tony harkins, meredith mccarroll, bob hudson, and iv bashir. This is a diverse response to hillbilly allergy. Shares a little bit about eat these for contributors and then ill turn the floor over to them. Tony harkins is the author of hillbilly a cultural history of an american icon. Meredith mccarroll is a directive writing and rhetoric at Bowdoin College he is an author. Bob hudson teaches at the university of tennessee and knoxville and is an author. And iv bashirs transition kumar data for Community Economic development in kentucky. Welcome tonight, thank you guys for coming. Im going to turn the floor over to you. So thank you for helping organize this, and thanks for having us. And thanks all for being here. Can you hear all right . Okay. I also want to thank West Virginia University Press who is the publisher for this book. Who sought this kind of w
So think you guys for coming out tonight my name is ginger and a part of the team here. If you will do me a favor and check your cell phones and make sure they are turned to vibrate. We have had it author who has had his phone go off. We do about 300 events around town each year. If you are not on our mailing list and want to know what else is coming up, you should sign up for mailing list at the front. We will not spam you we will send three to four emails. Month. Tonight we welcome for contributors to the anthology reckoning, going to see if i get this right, tony harkins, meredith mccarroll, bob hudson, and iv bashir. This is a diverse response to hillbilly allergy. Shares a little bit about eat these for contributors and then ill turn the floor over to them. Tony harkins is the author of hillbilly a cultural history of an american icon. Meredith mccarroll is a directive writing and rhetoric at Bowdoin College he is an author. Bob hudson teaches at the university of tennessee and kn
Everybody has to move. Thank you for coming out. Im ginger, part of the event team. If you will do me a favor and check your cell phones and make sure they are turned to vibrate. We do 300 events around town each year. If you are not on our mailing list you can set up for our mailing list at the front. We send 3 or 4 emails a month. Tonight we welcome four contributors to the anthology appalachian reckoning. Anthony harkins, meredith mccarroll, bob hutton and ivy brashear. This is a diverse, complex and the management of response to hillbilly elegy a memoir of family and culture in crisis. I will turn the floor over to them. Anthony harkins is professor of history, the author of hillbilly, a cultural history of an american icon. Meredith mccarroll is director of writing and rhetoric, the author of race and film. T. R. C. Hutton teaches american studies at the university of tennessee and is the author of it is i will say this wrong. Blood he blessed. Politics and violence published to t