Editor Whose Research interests include 19th century print culture, womens magazines and the radical alternative press. Before we began i would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who will be joining virtual mh programs. If youre definitely with her society where the first historical site in america and have been collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our history since 1791. We hold an amazing collection of close to 14 million manuscript pages including the papers of the first three president s of the United States. Sorry, three of the first six president s of the United States, i misspoke. We are continuing to collect today, and if youre interested we are currently collecting material related to the covid19 experience. We have a special initiative designed to record peoples experiences trying this unusual time and preserve a diverse sampling, firsthand accounts for future generations. In these days of social distancing we have taken to hosting virtual programs and onlin
Serve on the committee that chose truman for the award of biography 1993 and the ceremonies i first got to meet him briefly and come to admire his work and i know all of you do as well the lecture and historian the narrator of distinguished most historical series a recipient of the National Book foundation distinguished contribution and twice received the National Book award the most recent book is john adams. Other books include the johnstown flood warnings on horseback and truman so on behalf of laura bush and the library of congress and all readers everywhere please welcome david mccullough. [applause] thank you. What a warm welcome and thank you for your introduction. Im thrilled to be here and to take part and honored to take part with this historic and marvelous event. What a thrilling day this is to see thousands of people here on capitol hill the american acropolis right at the heart of the greatest libraries of the world. And to see it all with thousands of people out there to
Joining us my name is gavin and the director of programs exhibitions and partnerships for the National Historic society. I would like to extend a special welcome to anyone who might be attending a Virtual Program for the first time. Considering the size of our virtual crowd in the geographic diversity of the people who signed up, im sure there are some people who are in for the first time. If youre not familiar with nhs we are the oldest Historical Society in america. Founded in 1791 and have been an independent Nonprofit Institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our nation and States History the past 229 years. In these days of social distancing we are taking to hosting Virtual Events we have Online Events for every week through july. Next week we will be hosting a virtual tour the tour is titled misled and a look at historic a a these include mimic houses suspicious ain a marker that denotes the side of the famous vikings bar if youd like to join the tou
Talk we will have an author signing. Finally located across the lobby and finally we will have a question and answer session after the talk so come down to the microphone where you can ask questions and then you can access the microphone. Now want to turn to our speaker. The awardwinning investigative journalist and the twitter writers of the boston globe had the documentary series on pbs. Please join me to welcome our author. [applause] and with the introduction. Thank you to the Boston Public Library for sponsoring this event and to cspan books. Can everyone hear me . No. Into the stellar, columnist joining me later in the program so that is the format for 25 minutes or so and with the introduction of the highlights to you and then we will open the conversation i brought a few photos of material i also brought a few audio clips and some excerpts from interviews that i conducted while i was working on the book. On the morning of april 3r april 3rd, 1968, Martin Luther king junior died
[music plays] jackson, you have a new book called american radicals. What years does your book cover . Prof. Jackson the earliest event in the book is 1817. It covers 1823 to 1870s. It covers the period roughly from the 1820s to the 1870s. Susan this is described as the second American Revolution. Why is that . Prof. Jackson the radicals in my book were calling for a second American Revolution based on what the revolution we know, fought by their fathers generation many had grandfathers who fought in the revolution. They described that revolution as merely political. They felt it had accomplished a separation from england. It had accomplished the foundation of a new political system. But the social revolution they had in mind would have to follow that merely Political Revolution in order to really bring into American Life the ideals of the founding that had to do with equality, with justice, that were glaringly not part of lived american experience, even in this new land. That was supp