And im the director of Community Partnerships for theMassachusetts Historical Society. Our program this evening is a seasonal, its a look at the tradition of Summer Reading we are joined by professor donna harringtonlueker on her new publication gavin kleespies, 19th century publishing the rise of Summer Reading. She is a passer in Newport Rhode island and she has an undergraduate degree from rhode island and phd. As a former magazine writer and editor, Research Interests include 19thcentury print culture, womens magazines on any period and radical or alternative press. Before we begin id like to extend a special welcome to anyone joining the Virtual Program for the first time. If youre not familiar with the Massachusetts Historical Society we are the first Historical Society in america and have been preserving publishing and sharing our history since 1791. We hold a collection of 14 million manuscript pages including the papers of the first three president s of the unitedstates. Or im
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 this one is written by a Pr Department for the white house in jerry fords time. Those of you who might remember with inflation now or wind, poor jerry ford couldnt even get that part of his administration correct. That came and went with incredible speed. Keep cool with coolidge is not generally remembered or win with wilkie because they lost. There are many slogans which are still current in an Ethnic Community or in a smaller segment that were just not generally aware of because they never became generalized but those are slogans which tried to be i am not a crook, certainly was there. But i am not a crook is like a mission accomplished. Its like one of those slogans which characterize an era or a person and im sure that people in love would rather they didnt remember them. The subgroup of snarky slogans or catch phrases. The one which has lasted the longest and you and i have talked about this is once deliberately not in the boo
Partly in its genesis, hardly the kind of questions that arose, which for me, gave the book a kind of larger scope than i had originally intended. The quotations in the book, the slogans and catch phrases, up until 1955, were easy for me to remember. Because im a child of the 40s and thats what i learned in school. And thats how we learned history in school. Either the books we took out of the library in fourth and fifth grade or the way history was taught. But when i got to graduate school in the 60s, i discovered that some of my fellow students who were, who came from overseas, would come to me periodically and said who is this joe and why should he say it aint so . And so, i told him the story. And later, a friend of hour ours whos an immigrant doctor from south africa came to me and said why do my patients when they see me say whats up doc and laugh ma maniacally sm people who were under 30 had no idea anymore of what these slogans and catch phrases meant. Where they came from. Or
Of the 1940 and i learned them in school. That is how we learned history, the books out of the Library Fourth and fifth grade or with the way history was taught. When i got to graduate school n the 1960s i discovered that some of my fellow students from overseas would come to me periodically and say who is this joe and why should he say it int so. O i told them the story. Then much later a friend of ours who is an immigrant doctor from south africa came to me and said why do my patients, when they see me what is up doc and laugh maniacally. People under 30 had no real idea of what these slogans and catch phrases meant, where they came from or why people used hem. I decided there is a book and i should write it and i started a long time ago. As i wrote one slogan or catch phrase at a time i realized there were a number of questions that i was going to need to answer if i was going to really pursue the book and finish it. Because i was writing the history the way i wanted to, the indepth
Remember because i was a child of the 1940 and i learned them in school. That is how we learned history, the books out f tof the Library Fourth and fifth grade or with the way history was taught. When i got to graduate school in the 1960s i discovered that some of my fellow students from overseas would come to me periodically and say who is this joe and why should he say it aint so. So i told them the story. Then much later a friend of ours who is an immigrant doctor from south africa came to me and said why do my patients when they see me what is up doc and laugh maniac maniacally. People under 30 had no real idea of what these slogans and catch phrases meant, where they came from or why people used them. I decided there is a book and i should write it and i started a long time ago. As i wrote one slogan or catch phrase at a time i realized there were a number of questions that i was going to need to answer if i was going to really pursue the book and finish it. Because i was writing