To learn about its history. Learn more about omaha and other stops on our to her at cspan. Org. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. American history tv you cheering cspans original series first ladies influence and image. Cspan produced the series in cooperation with the White House Historical association. Through conversations with experts, video tours of historic sites, and questions from cspan audience we help tell the story of americas 45 first ladies. Next, lucy hayes, on first ladies influence an image. This is about an hour and a half. It is so unfair to her. Its such a dismissive, almost condescending title, because it suggests that shes sort of his bluestocking whose sole function in life was to not serve alcohol. Lucy hayes is so much more, as is her husband, frankly. And, remember, everything she accomplished in the white house, we should consider, came in spite of the fact that her husbands legitimacy to be president was questioned r
Mother. She doesnt neglect her children but she also embraces the life. Lucy wrote womens minds are as strong as mans, equal in all things and superior in some. Born lucy wrote womens minds are as strong as mans, equal in all things and superior in some. Born in 1831 in ohio she was the first, first lady to earn a College Degree, and her life tells us much about the times in which she lived. Experiencing the civil war reconstruction and the guilded age and social forces usher in an era of enormous change. Welcome. Tonight we learn about the 19th president s. She is the author of the first ladies of the United States of america, a collection of biographies published by the White House Historical association. Welcome. And 1876, this country is joy usly celebrating what the 100th centennial and its an election year. The election is greatly contested with no clear victor. Tell us about the atmosphere with which they arrive at the white house. Its pretty schizophrenic, to tell you the truth
So one part of the system moved 60 miles an hour, while another part moved at 40, and it was kind of lost its structure, that is what has happened just during the last hour, and just as it has come through our area. Now, theres more rain back to the west, this is the area were going to be watching down near roanoke. It could make it into southern delaware, in the next few hours, the actual cold front is back here in ohio, so when you get a front that far behind, the line of thunderstorms strange things can happen, and it did. Just as it got into the philadelphia area. And we could be seeing some more showers during the night tonight. But the strongest piece of wind energy has already moved through the area. And lets talk to crystal with more on that wind. Realistically, this happening is a good thing for everyone in our area. It means the damaging winds not quite as high of a threat as that line moved through. The gusts are still strong right now, 28 mile per hour gusts in philadelphia
It has to be one of the oldest debates with social science predating the idea there is but the hideous social forces explain human outcomes. Its all about biography. What i thought is these are two further apart view points. The problem is that both arguments make sense. The social scientists or the people following the tradition of, you know, not just marx, but most social scientists say, look, theres three reasons why leaders dont matter that much, that the leader of my organization faces external constraints. If youre the ceo of company, you have competitors. You cant set prices at whatever you want. Theres internal constraints, tradition, culture, everything inside a country, company, military unit. You cant do whatever you want. Most importantly, leaders are not chosen randomly so most leaders of powerful organizations, organizations that we care about, organizations that have the ability to reshape history, they are not picked out of a hat, but picked because that organization is
Influence and image, season two, premieres monday, september 9. In august, we are bringing you encore performance one. Ntations of season tonight, here on cspan, lucy hayes. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] it is so unfair to her. It is a dismissive, condescending title. It suggests she is smooth talking and her function in life was to not serve alcohol. Lucy hayes is so much more. As was her husband. Everything she accomplished in the white house was in spite of the fact her husbands legitimacy to be president was questioned. She was a charming person, very delightful. Innovative. One of the more controversial collections is the white house china. An article says the art was absurd. Who would want to eat a lovely meal and see a duck at the bottom of their plate . She took an interest in Public Affairs from an early age. Two causes that were important to her were veterans soldiers and or friends, children w