And he argues that president lincoln was against slavery, but was willing to accept it in order to preserve the union. This is an hour and a half, hosted by the New York Historical society and the bryant park reading room. Thank you alex castle and paul room arrow. And thanks to the Bryant Park Corporation and the bryant park reading room, and the hsbc corporation and all those who have made it possible for me to appear here tonight. Its a particular privilege to speak here in new york city. Already, in 1860, as it remains today, new york was the nerve center of the nation. The herald, the tribune, the times, the three most influential and widely read newspapers in the United States, were publish right here. Each provides the historian with a wealth of insights, and each informs my presentation tonight. Here is what i am going to talk about. I focus on the fateful series of events in late 1860, and early 1861, when a president ial election triggered a grave crisis, and before long, a c
Of Congress Carla Hayden. August, 2020, mark stop 100 anniversary of the 19th amendment and womens right to vote. In honor of this milestone of american democracy, congress has designated august as National Womens suffrage month. The womens Suffrage Centennial commission is coordinating National Womens suffrage month on behalf of congress and the barking people and if this history interests you, please in visit the commission at women but 100. Org to learn more and to engage. For now, lets enjoy this conversation between these three brilliant men as we celebrate the centennial of womens suffrage and pate tribute to the legacy of the trailblazing suffragists who paved the way for our right to vote. Hello, colleen, thank you for that thoughtful introduction. I am librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and i join you from the librarys exhibit, shall not be denied. Welcome to womens fight for the road celebrating 100 years of the 19th amendment, a conversation with historian elaine weiss and f
The executive director of the institute for the study of war and democracy here at the National World War Ii Museum we are the humble group of scholars that bring your programs such as this and it is our actual pleasure to have paul with us here tonight. The institute, what do we . Do apologize to the veterans that here this every few weeks but the institute serves as the Research Corps in the Higher Education center of the museum, we like to call us as a community of scholars, our job is to build bridges to academics and other authors and experts around the world to help make them part of the Museum Family and plug them into the program such as this. To produce college of our own as our multiple Award Winning Senior Historian has done with him who is not here he celebrating a 60th birthday tonight hes done that with all ten of his. Books we also offer a wonderful new service the World War Two veteran Research Project and service would you cannot find on the website. We can trace the i
The same sense of enjoyment, productivity, and professionalism as experts, professionals engage their citizen users to the best of their abilities, the cliches about lazy Government Employees repeated ad nauseam by unknowing politicians had no validity within these walls. Instead i became convinced as a ms. Sure most historians would share, that the National Archives is one of the true ornaments of American Culture for which this individual can only say, from the bottom of my professional heart, thank you very much. Amen. , now there are two housekeeping things that i have to discuss before i can turn to Edith Roosevelt. I need to make them clear. Doris goodwin coming next week you are in for about of what i can call pettiness during the next week. There will be teddy this and teddy that in every direction. You wont hear me use that term. I will talk about tea are, roosevelt, carole roosevelt, theodore and the president , but i wont use the word teddy. There is a simple reason. He did
Plunges and a financial panic gripped the world. This land is your land this land is my land from california to the New York Island i have but one desire, and that is to see my country again on the road to prosperity. This land was made for you and me let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. By the time Franklin Roosevelt gives his march 1933 inaugural speech, almost a quarter of the nation is unemployed. More than 5,000 banks have failed and drought is persisting in key agricultural areas of the country. Coming up in the next hour, stories from the Great Depression as we take you around the country to places like toledo. And then in 1931, five of the six largest banks in toledo all failed at the same time, which made it the largest banking failure of the Great Depression. Two successful Infrastructure Projects of the time still impacting us today. And to one ending in tragedy. Well take you to saint paul where depression gangsters and the corrup