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[instrumental music] hi everyone and welcome to the National Books festival. My name is anna lehman and im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. Im here today with megan twohey and gail collins. Both incredible authors and writers and journalists and i cannot wait for you to hear what they have to say. I mentioned that im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission, the commission is a very proud sponsor of the National Books festival this year, we are the sponsor of the fearless women trail, which is featuring authors who are fearless jus...

Zoom schedule appears on our website at harvard. Com. I will be contacting a link to support event night tonight possible of the independent bookstore thank you for tuning in we support your support now and always. Thank you for your patience and understanding so now im so pleased to introduce tonight speakers professor jones that the president ial professor at Johns Hopkins university and the organization of american historians for legal history and those scholarships with columbia universitys center for critical analysis. As well as pbs and netflix and others and also the coeditor of the afr...

That just a minute. I have to start out, full disclosure, and say that when johanna wrote me about this event a few months ago and said is there any chance youd be free . I wrote her immediately back and said absolutely. I would love to see you. The book sounds great. I cant wait to see it. We go back to the white house in the early 1980s when both of us were just out of middle school. Well put it this way, we were early on in our career as journalists. I think we bonded back then, even though i was in broadcast and she was in front. We always kind of gravitated towards each other. I was such ...

What america should be. The northerners who won had an idea of what america should be. The indians and the chinese at out west had ideas about what america should be and certainly the northern men who had won the war had ideas about what the country should be. The critical question as to what it was going to be was who was going to have a say in it. We have gone to that as well, but who had a say in what that new nation was going to be was going to have a dramatic affect on what it eventually became. Today i want to talk about women and womens lives in the late 19th century and their role in w...

We have gone through that with the africanamerican men who had fought for the union had some ideas for what the union should be, and certainly white southerners had in idea about what america should be. The northerners who won had an idea, the indians and the chinese at west had ideas about what america should be and certainly the northern men who had won the war had ideas about what the country should be. The critical question as to what it was going to be was who was going to have a say in it. We have gone to that as well, but who had a say in what that new nation was going to be was going t...