Movement. Abraham lincoln said of douglass, there is no man in the country whose opinion i value more than yours. And that lincoln second inauguration douglass sat near the president. How came to be on the side of the president is a story told in the color of abolition. Our featured book for todays program. Linda hirshman describes how the team of Douglas William garrison and Maria Weston Chapman successfully promoted the antislavery cause in the 1840s. By the early 1850s, however, douglass joined with those who actively engaged in politics to achieve abolition and rejected the nonpolitical means espoused by garrison and chapman. New york times review. William g. Thomas the third cause the color of abolition. A fresh, provocative and account of the abolition movement. And in the boston globe review, lydia molen declares hirshman the book is a wonderful cataloging of americans white and black, who devoted their lives to ending slavery. Then the hirshman is the author of reckoning the ep
Fivehour presentation for your this evening, and decided to scale that back to a more manageable 45 minutes. So ill start by saying this, without newspapers, there would have been no American Revolution. Newspapers are what fanned the flames of the rebellion. They sustained loyalty to the cause, they provided Critical Response during the war and aid in the outcome. Historians know this very well. For 200 plus years, the historians have referred the footnotes. What this book was inverts the traditional history book taking the newspapers that have been in the footnotes and places them at the forefront for general readers like you to enjoy full access and newspaper from the period. The process for putting this book together was quite a journey for me. I started out as enthusist, then became a collector, then became an educator through a website called rag lynn. Com and through the book. The story how i discovered historical newspaper happened about five years ago. My wife and i took our f
Joining author in conversation is margaret sullivan, columnist at the washington post. In the decades before the civil war, Frederick Douglass emerged as the foremost orator and writer for the abolition movement. Abraham lincoln said of douglass, there is no man in the country whose opinion i value more than yours. And that lincoln second inauguration douglass sat near the president. How came to be on the side of the president is a story told in the color of abolition. Our featured book for todays program. Linda hirshman describes how the team of Douglas William garrison and Maria Weston Chapman successfully promoted the antislavery cause in the 1840s. By the early 1850s, however, douglass joined with those who actively engaged in politics to achieve abolition and rejected the nonpolitical means espoused by garrison and chapman. New york times review. William g. Thomas the third cause the color of abolition. A fresh, provocative and account of the abolition movement. And in the boston
Agents. Plus. Im in brazil, the capitol of brazil where the biggest staterun company here is facing corruption allegations at the highest levels. Starting the news hour with these pictures from Eastern Ukraine, showing how potentially come busable the situation has become and these prorussia gunman have continued to ignore orders to leave a government building which they seized over the weekend, barricades there as weapons have been stockpiled and although it looks pretty quiet right now ukrainian soldiers we understand are massing on the outskirts of the city. And the ukrainian crisis straining further relations between the u. S. And russia, a phone call between president s president obama and putin has been described as frank. Obama accusing putin government of supporting armed groups in Eastern Ukraine and asked him once again to withdraw Russian Troops from close to ukraines border, 40,000 are thought to be stationed there. And obama warned putin that russia would incur further cos
For targeted killing overseas. It was one year ago today that two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, survivors First Responders and family members of the four People Killed that week gathered this afternoon to mark the solemn anniversary at the exact moment the bombs went off a flag was raised at the site of the attack. What so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars. And john terrett joins us now from bostons fenway park in boston. John, if you would, walk us through todays events. It was really well done by the city. Reporter it was very well done. And i think, tony, this is a day that the city of boston has been seeking, as a cathartic moment to try to begin the healing process proper. After the bombings of a year ago. Now, of course the healing process will truly begin if they can get away with a clean marathon next monday, which everybody here is working hard to try to achieve. But the process began this mornin