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The mid19th Century Court case of celia, a female slave who killed her owner after repeated Sexual Assaults. Looks at the involvement of her fellow slaves and owners white neighbors in her court case. This is about an hour and 20 minutes. Today we will continue the discussion we were having, that we began a couple weeks ago, talking about the history of slavery, and in particular, the experiences of slave women. We already had a chance to look at the case of Harriet Jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. There, jacobs introduces us to that dimension of slavery that is exem...

Explores the 54year marriage between john and Abigail Adams. She uses the couples letters as evidence of their strong and successful partnership. Professor gist spoke at a celebration of john and Abigail Adams 250th wedding anniversary in massachusetts. This 45 minute event was cohosted by the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Abigail Adams historical society. And i am thrilled and honored to present our keynote speaker shes a Stanford University historian and a senior scholar at the institute for gender research. She is the author of numerous articles reviews in books. Among them are o...

John adams on october 25, 1764 the reverend smith, abigails father, preached a sermon from the text of matthew. For john came, neither drinking wine or eating bread. John records the story in his memoir, and explains the choice of text as a response to the congregation. He suggests that a portion of the parishioners thought that the son of a small farmer in the middle class of braintree was scarcely good enough to match with the pastors daughter. The reverend smiths cryptic message may have included his more personal reflections, which Charles Francis preferred to disregard. For many reasons, ...

48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan 3. Follow us on Twitter Twitter cspanhistory for information on our schedule, upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. President obama delivers his state of the Union Address on tuesday, january 20th to a joint session of congress. Now American History tv looks back to 1965 and president lyndon b. Johnsons state of the union speech. Lbj called upon americans to continue on what he called, quote, the road to the Great Society. Proposing a sweeping National Agenda from education to war on deadly diseases to ...

Members of the congress, i have the great and personal pleasure the high privilege, and the distinct honor of presenting to you the president of the United States. [applause] mr. Speaker mr. President members of the congress, my fellow americans, on this hill which was my home i am stirred by old friendships. Though total agreement between the executive and the congress is impossible, total respect is important. I am proud to be among my colleagues the congress, whose legacy to their trust is their loyalty to their nation. I am not unaware of the inner emotions of the new members of this body ...