My pleasure to be here with the author and really, wonderful person to talk about history and race, and just challenges during this time, Erica Armstrong dunbar. She is the author of one of my new favorite books. She came to sleigh. It is the life and time of Harriet Tubman. Thank you so much for doing this. Your book is really groundbreaking. And cute and first of all let me thank you for inviting me on. I really taken the time to have this conversation. I love to talk about history. But more importantly about the lives of africanamerican women during the 19th century. And harriet have one just became very clear early on that it was time to kind of do a bit of a refresher on Harriet Tubman. And to think about her as a person. Hennepin as an activist bird right now were thinking about about what social justice and activism looks like. I think theres no better representation of it, at least in the 19th century than Harriet Tubman. Its wonderful to be able to talk about her. Host what is
I found out that all the media people were distraught, totally distraught over the fact that hillary lost. I discovered something that i never understood. Why did they not fact [inaudible] as a regular person. Guest a regular person. Anybody distraught on election day wanting to be vindicated in the mall we have a president that is that he will not accept the result of the election if he loses, and that would be the end of america as we know it. I dont know what you are referring to specifically though. Host rick perlsteins most recent book is called a reaganland americas write a term 19761980. Its one of the four that hes written about conservatism in america and we thank you for joining us for the callin program on booktv. Guest what an honor. Thank you. Host coming up in half an hour, we have diamond and silk for a call in the program talking about their new book uprising who the hell said you cant ditch and switch. Thats coming up live on booktv. But now we return to the National B
Harriet tubman is celebrated for her work as an abolitionist, underground railroad conductor, and union army scout during the civil war. Next, karen hill of the Harriet Tubman house talks about Harriet Tubmans lesserknown role as an activist in the Womens Suffrage Movement. The president Woodrow Wilson house hosts this conversation as part of a series commemorating the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. Good evening. I am the executive director at the Woodrow Wilson house. It is truly my pleasure to welcome you to the first of a series of speaking events we are going to have on a suffrage series. The wilson house, if you have not been here before, is part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wilson and his wife edith lived in this house. Edith turned it over to the National Trust in 1961 on her death. It has been lovingly cared for. We welcome you tonight. I wanted to tell you about how we started this speaker series. Our senior manager said to me this su
Civil war. Next karen hill of the Harriet Tubman house talks about her lesser known role as an activist in the women suffrage movement. The Woodrow Wilson house in washington, d. C. Hosted this as part of a series commemorating the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. Welcome. Good evening. Im the executive director here at the Woodrow Wilson house. And it is really truly my pleasure to well you to the first of a series of speaking events that were going to have on a suffrage series. So the wilson house if you havent been here before its part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Wilson and his wifeedeth lived in this house and edith turned it over to the National Trust upon her death and its been lovingly cared for until tonight. I wanted to tell you about this speaker series. Said to me this summer when i first started there is a commission on the suffrage and i think we should go to that meeting. It is the womens Suffrage Centennial commission, and i said
Welcome, good evening. My name is elizabeth, and im the executive director here at the Woodrow Wilson house and its my pleasure to welcome you to the first of a series of speaking events that were going to have on suffrage. So the wilson house, if you havent been here before, its part of the National Trust for historic preservation. Wilson and his wife edith lived in this house and they turned edith turned it over to the National Trust in 1961 upon her death and it has been lovingly cared for and so we welcome you tonight. I wanted to tell you a little bit about how we started this suffrage speaker series. Asantewa boakyewa, our senior manager of collections and interpretations, said to me this summer when i first started the job, there is a commission on the suffrage and i think we should go to that meeting. Its the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. And i said, okay, im going to go with you. And so we went down to the library of congress and we sat at a big table and there were a