Cspan3. Next, a visit to the Smithsonians National portrait gallery. In the second of a twopart program, historian Kate Clarke Lemay gives American History tv a guided tour of an exhibit marking the centennial of the 19th amendment using political cartoons and images of suffragists picketing the white house, ms. Lemay explores the National Womens Party Tactics under the leadership of alice paul. Hi, im kate lemay, and im the curator of votes for women, a portrait of persistence, which is an exhibition on view at the National Portrait gallery at the smithsonian institution. And im standing in front of what we call our title treatment. Its a large blowup of headwig lik riker who was a german born actress. During the finnish or the conclusion of the 1913 parade in washington, d. C. , andst that just one event of the long Suffrage Movement that this exhibition highlights, and we have 124 objects that goes into the long history beginning in the 1832 and bringing it right up to 1920, but the
National womens party. The National Party was hounded by a woman named alice paul in 1913 as the Congressional Union for womens suffrage. The Congressional Union for womens suffrage became the National Womens party in 1916. This group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment. At which time, once the received the amendment in 1920, they began, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. During the period where they were lottery lobbying for suffrage, they were working all over the country actively garnering support from western women voters and bringing the fight directly to the president s doorstep. They had headquarters over on on Lafayette Square where they could walk out their door and be right at the president s doorstep in a matter of minutes. And they began picketing the white house, one of the first groups to do so, when the United States entered world war i in 1917. At that pit at that time, the p
University of california at davis. He specializes in both criminal law and immigration law. I think as this conference afolds, we realized there is great and sad connection between criminal law and immigration law. In a variety of ways. Im not sure how much you will touch on that today. Jack did his undergraduate degree at wesley and and a law degree at the university of michigan. He went on to do a advanced law degree at yale. Being, if i could paraphrase president kennedy in this context, having gotten a Michigan Education he went on to get a yale degree so he could be a success in life, which is of course what president kennedy said he was given an Honorary Degree at yale. Recently coedited a book, or cowritten a book on the 1965 immigration act, which is what he is going to talk about. Im not going to say anymore because he can tell us all about it. Professor chin thank you for the introduction. Thank you to the capital historical society. To talk today about the immigration and na
So much of this summit is concerned with the electoral history of progressivism and conservatism. Many of our speakers asked how the ideas and arguments of Major Political thinkers have made their way into the cultural conversation. Have shaped political attitudes, and given rise to political action. Our midmorning session is particularly exciting in this respect. The three historians before you are going to discuss how certain Major Intellectual figures of the long 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries have affected and in some cases may continue to affect american political thought. I will introduce our speakers alphabetically. Claire is a doctoral candidate in United States history at stanford university. Her research very well suited to for this conversation interrogates the Cultural Exchange in the late 18th century through the cold war. Today, she will discuss jon stewart middle, Harriet Tyler mill, and the coalescence of modern liberalism and the in america from the 18th to the 1970s w
Doctoral candidate at stanford university. Her research very well suited to this conversation interrogates the Cultural Exchange in the late 18th century through the cold war. Today she will discuss jon stewart middle, Harriet Tyler mill, and the coalescence of modern liberalism and the america from the 18th to the 1970s with particular attention paid to the middle of the 20th century. Peggy vandenberg is an associate professor of philosophy. Her teaching and research primarily concern the figures of the 18thcentury scottish enlightened. This morning, she will examine the reception of david humes work in america, particularly by James Madison. Judy witt is investor of cash a professor. The editor of the four volume set jane adams writings on peace, she will discuss john do we, james adams. With that, i turn it over to our first presenter. Let me begin by thanking the center along with the staff for organizing this wonderful events and invited me to speak this morning. I should also men