Zoom schedule appears on our website at harvard. Com. I will be contacting a link to support event night tonight possible of the independent bookstore thank you for tuning in we support your support now and always. Thank you for your patience and understanding so now im so pleased to introduce tonight speakers professor jones that the president ial professor at Johns Hopkins university and the organization of american historians for legal history and those scholarships with columbia universitys center for critical analysis. As well as pbs and netflix and others and also the coeditor of the africanamerican culture and the birthright citizen but tonight professor jones of the correspondent for the New York Times Pulitzer Prize vanguard. It was that expensive history of black women and National Book awardwinning author the political historian and this is the commanding history of the struggle of africanamerican women for political power is a without further ado we will go to our guest. Th
That just a minute. I have to start out, full disclosure, and say that when johanna wrote me about this event a few months ago and said is there any chance youd be free . I wrote her immediately back and said absolutely. I would love to see you. The book sounds great. I cant wait to see it. We go back to the white house in the early 1980s when both of us were just out of middle school. Well put it this way, we were early on in our career as journalists. I think we bonded back then, even though i was in broadcast and she was in front. We always kind of gravitated towards each other. I was such a huge fan of her reporting and she was such a respected journalist. Johanna, youve gone on to even greater things. She went on to earn her ph. D. As youve just heard, she is a scholar and resident. Shes done extraordinary historical work. For those of you have not had a chance to read it or peek at it, you are in for a treat. Johanna, without going any longer on all the professes, just why havent
What america should be. The northerners who won had an idea of what america should be. The indians and the chinese at out west had ideas about what america should be and certainly the northern men who had won the war had ideas about what the country should be. The critical question as to what it was going to be was who was going to have a say in it. We have gone to that as well, but who had a say in what that new nation was going to be was going to have a dramatic affect on what it eventually became. Today i want to talk about women and womens lives in the late 19th century and their role in what was really the reconstruction, the true rebuilding of the north, south, and the west into a new nation in the wake of the civil war. The story of women is more crucial to that story than most people realize. Most people when they think about womens rights in america start here and you probably know about this from high school, the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 when a number of women came tog
We have gone through that with the africanamerican men who had fought for the union had some ideas for what the union should be, and certainly white southerners had in idea about what america should be. The northerners who won had an idea, the indians and the chinese at west had ideas about what america should be and certainly the northern men who had won the war had ideas about what the country should be. The critical question as to what it was going to be was who was going to have a say in it. We have gone to that as well, but who had a say in what that new nation was going to be was going to have a dramatic affect on what it eventually became. Today i want to talk about women and womens lives in the late 19th century and their role in what was really the reconstruction, the true rebuilding of the north, south, and the west into a new nation in the wake of the civil war. The story of women is more crucial to that story than most people realize. Most people when they think about women
And our new Digital Community during unprecedented times and as always our Event Schedule appears on our website you can sign up for newsletter and browse from home we will have time for questions if you have a question at any time click on a q a button we will allow as much as time allows your purchases and financial contribution make event late tonight a possible and ensure the landmark possible thank you for tuning in to support our staff we appreciate your support now and always also technical issues may arise we will do our best to resolve them quickly and we thank you for your patience and understanding i am pleased to introduce tonight speaker professor martha jones professor of history at Johns Hopkins and the co president and her work has been recognized by the organization of american historians American Society for history and numerous scholarships including the columbia universitys center for critical analysis and Pennsylvania Law School those including the color line along