The but not to pay i95 or to deliver a package to my po box church. Pgo works book is a cry from the new middle visit the website booktv. Org and type the authors name or book title into the search box. To the of the program. Good evening thank you for joining us for the program today. My name is gavin im the director of programs, exhibitions and partnerships for the massachusetts Historical Society. Before i begin the program on extend a special welcome to anyone who might be attending Virtual Program for the first time. If youre not filming with mhs was the oldest Historical Society in america in a been collecting preserving collecting and preserving our history since 1971. Have an amazing collection of close to 14 million manuscript pages and putting papers of three of the first six u. S. President s. In these days of social distancing we take into hosting virtual events. We have Online Events planned for the rest of the calendar year exploring many subjects of u. S. And massachuset
Your voice, your vote. This is abc 7 news. I said at the outset i wanted this campaign to represent and look like america. The battle to restore decency, defend democracy, and give everybody in this country a fair shot. Democracy is not a state. It is an act. It takes sacrifice. But there is joy in it. And there is progress. Because we, the people, have the power to build a better future. A vision of unity as president elect joe biden and his running mate, vp elect Kamala Harris, echoing the words of the late john lewis, welcoming everyone together as americans and laying out their vision for the next four years. Good morning, im jobina fortson. Im sure many of you all heard the celebrations inside your home. Well have much more on this historicmaking ticket. But first, lisa argen. Good morning, jobina. The rain is out over the ocean. We have a wind advisory in the coast and upper elevations. Its windy where we live as well. The wind gusts above a thousand feet could be in excess of 50
She was an elderly retired schoolteacher and she was the family historian in my mothers family. Who were all in new orleans and she was a keeper of the lore of among others, our klansman. She had some papers and house and she had a way of speaking about her Family History that was like this. The one to remember is our klansman, my grandfather, because he was a redeemer. The redemption returned white people to authority in new orleans after they had been dislodged by the negroes. And if he if you have not actee battle of Liberty Place we would not be here today. Anyway, so when she dyed died r papers went to my mother, and when my mother died, this is now decades later, her files into me, Family History files, and this is how i rediscovered the story of our klansman and wrote about it. Host you remember your aunt maud here you have emulated her well. It sounds like she spoke of and say his name [inaudible] host guest spelled constant. He was a French Carpenter raised and spoke french. H
Makes this collaboration so important to me. My book is a snapshot of a. Ingular moment in history almost exactly 100 years ago. As the world finally began exiting from the devastation of the First World War and was able to begin the dreaming and planning for the peace and the new world that would come afterwards. Mythis moment, i show in book that women from farreaching and incredibly diverse parts of the world began stepping onto the global stage and asserting inserting an agenda of womens rights and gender equality that at the core demanded the rights for women to help shape this new world order and transform it into something that was fundamentally different that then what had given way to world war i. Ibook is a story of women from north america, europe, asia, and the middle east. It is a story of white, wealthy women and also sometimes desperately poor, workingclass women. It is a story of women that were married to tremendously supportive husbands and also women that engaged in
Cspan2, created by americas Cable Television company is a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. Representative rick larsen democrat from washington recently joined book tv to discuss the books he is reading. So congressman rick larsen of washington, what is on your reading list right now. My current reading list is long but is coming into the middle of the summer now so i am working on wreck, the third novel by joe day, is los angeles mystery pointer. An iq is his character. As the third book in the series. Its kind of a detective novel. Is a private investigator and alone and a lot of action and a lot of great relationships. Im working on that in a muscle working on frederick douglass, a biography published recently, im working on that. Its a fairly long book. In popping in and out of that. Quite a bit. Im taking that in chunks. And for the policy, david one of the think tanks in washington dc, is the lead editor of the called china of 2049, and brought