Ssent to learn about the with totorian Mitchell Yockelson learn about the death of the young aviator. Beyond the fountain into the onded area a short distance july 14, 1918, Quentin Roosevelts plane was shot down during a dogfight with german pilots. Quentin was the youngest child of theodore roosevelt. Quentin and his brothers all served during world war i. Quentin chose the air service like a lot of young men. Times 20 years old at the of his death. Of flying in the air service was an honor for young men who were daring. Not long before quentins plane was shot down and he was killed, he was placed in the 95th aeros squadron. They were charged with following and tracking down german planes in the area. Hadbattle of the second mar been raging since may. It was a heroic effort by the americans to try and stop the germans from crossing the marne. Quentin had gone airborne and shot down his first and only known german kyl. In four days the germans would get retribution against him. After
Lincoln in 1983. And since then shes focused on Abraham Lincoln as her subject, and has made many, many, many paintings of different styles which she will talk about. She has also been very active. Being interviewed by cnn. Her paintings on historical society. Along with some other people you may have heard of. Salvatore dali. He was there as well. Norman, and robert. What so certainly in very, very good company, and so are they. In addition to all of this, has a gallery up there, linking it to art. She is also very active with the fellowship of pennsylvania, where she is on the board. And the Vice President of the fellowship of pennsylvania. Shes also very active in the lincoln form. A lot of us went to it in the last year. I think we had record turnout going to the lincoln form and were going to try to beat that record this year. But the foreman of ember. Wendy is involved in all of those. Tonight shes going to talk about her time, just want to talk about lincoln art. Maybe a little
Peter i am going to go ahead and turn it over to john. I want to start with something i read in the introduction. Just absolutely fascinated by. And it is about your father. It is really a lovely story. Irwin silber. Book, published a songs of the civil war. He was not like a diehard civil war buff. He was not that kind nina he did like to sing the songs. Peter i have a question about your father. This is what you wrote. This book is not about my father civil war. It is partly about the people who created the civil war my father came to love as well as those who created the kind of civil war that he despised. So tell us, what did you mean by that . How can that help us sort of frame your book . Then we will turn it over to john. Nina so i think come in terms of the kind of the civil war that he came to love, i guess i would say that was the civil war i am going to say it was the civil war created by the popular front. By that, i mean this sort of loose coalition of civil rights organiz
At the kennedy institute, we are committed to engaging the public in a conversation about the role each one of us plays in our democracy and in our society. We do that through Civic Education programs that bring the United States senate to life and conversations like tonight that bring American History into focus. We are very proud to partner with the Massachusetts Historical Society on todays program. They are an invaluable resource for american life, history, and culture. All of us at the institute are also proud together together a group of panelists for the program, including our moderator, fred tice. He covers news related to politics and Higher Education at wbur where he has been since 1988 serving as a trusted source of truth and information. He previously was the nbc news bureau chief in mexico city and the south america reporter for cbs news based in argentina. Joining fred on the panel are four scholars who provide erspective on, and knowledge of, our nations founders. Togeth
There is no such thing as free labor right . That doesnt make sense. Could you help us understand, what do you mean, what do scholars mean by free labor . Mr. Luskey thanks for having me on. I appreciate the opportunity to talk about this book. It is a question my students, even after having me teach the concept to them, they still have trouble understanding. Free labor ideology came together as a set of ideas, most clearly in the 1850s, around a new political party, the republican party, and what the ideas at the heart of this ideology proposed was that wage labor, as it existed in northern states, was a superior economic and social system to southern slavery. It was a system, in its ideal form, that allowed workers the opportunity to make a contract with the employer of their choice, and to save their earnings to become independent. And this was something that was not available to enslaved people in the southern states. It is art of an attempt to rehabilitate wage labor, which many w