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Railroad conductor, and union army scout during the civil war. Next, karen hill of the Harriet Tubman house talks about Harriet Tubmans lesserknown role as an activist in the Womens Suffrage Movement. The president Woodrow Wilson house hosts this conversation as part of a series commemorating the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. Elizabeth welcome, good evening. My name is elizabeth carter, and i am the executive director at the Woodrow Wilson house. It is truly my pleasure t...

Our members, our revolution society, this is a wonderful people who are great supporters of our music. We are pleased to partner with harvard for trust, you will see him up on the screen here. I know tim but all i can see is darkness out there. So lets thank them for making these possible. [applause] its a real pleasure to be welcoming doctor Vincent Brown this evening as is sometimes the case but not all that often, we are welcoming a good friend to the museum here this evening. Prince was one ...

Notion that it couldnt happen, that they could not elect a catholic president of the United States. If you know our political history for the decades preceding that with al smith and others there was evidence that , you cannot elect a catholic, and that was all transcended and exploded one night in november 1960. And so the world we were looking at in 1968 when i could really finally Pay Attention was a world coming apart in the United States. The vietnam war is raging, we had an incumbent presi...

Bipartisan group whose members can access many opportunities through their involvement with the institute including volunteering for programs and networking with special guests. If you are a student i would like to join, please contact us by emailing us or speaking with a student worker after the program. After the program, we will have some time for the audience to ask questions. If you have a question, please raise your hand and a student worker with a microphone will come to you. Please stand...

Thank you so much for everyone that came out today. And of course, speaker me pe losy as well. Happy anniversary, 19th amendment. Isnt that something . Wow. It was passed just in time for the 1920 president ial election but it would take another 12 years for women to really turn out to vote. There was some conflict at the time between the suffragists and the abolitionists. And i wonder do you still feel echos of that in Democratic Politics . Not really. I think that even has the right to vote no...

Student volunteers. Please turn off your cell phones. And now, please join me in welcoming senior associate director dr. Barbara ballard. [ applause ] thank you very much. Ill say good evening and welcome to the Dole Institute of politics. For the Third Program of the 2020 president ial lecture series. Tonights guest is professor of communications, robert roland. We would like to thank our cosponsors, the university of Kansas Department of Communication Studies, the department of history, and th...

In the near future on booktv on cspan2. Welcome to you all, im scott stevenson, im the president ceo of the museum of the American Revolution. Its wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience and im pleased were live stream the program this evening and we will be on booktv so we will live on forever and ever as 3 00 a. M. When you cant sleep. I will get a text from my father the following morning that says youre on television again. Im curious a show of hands id like to ask how many ...

Tv. So, we will live on forever and ever after 3 a. M. When you cant sleep. [laughter] i will get a text from my father the following morning saying you are on television again. Im just curious a show of hands i like to ask how many of you are visiting for the first time this evening to the museum wax wonderful. Welcome to all of you. You are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museum and society into this is a wonderful fellowship of people who are great su...

Stephen anyway, have a great show. But you know who else loved it is when i washed yo yo mas cello, and he was so grateful. Stephen you washed his stradivarius . Oh, a stradivarius. So, its, like, 300 years old, so really dirty. So no wonder he was so grateful. He looked at me with tears of joy. It was so nice. laughter playing off key stephen anyway, great to see you. Break a leg tonight. Hey, stephen, stephen. Stephen yeah . Want me to give those glasses a good cleaning for the show . Stephen ...

Education for the unified School District. Tonight is january 14, 2020. This meeting is now called to order. Miss casco, roll call, please. Clerk thank you. [roll call] clerk thank you. President cook tonight, id like to start this meeting in honor of one of my greatest professional heros, malcolm x. Tonight, well have a leadership change, but i wont read a quote in particular. Ill just say, i appreciate his legacy and what hes done in this city, and i hope to continue it in the years to come. L...