This discussion. Watching on cspan three. My name is stewart mike lauren and im the president of the White House Historical association. Its my privilege to welcome you, many of you back to historic deindicate historic Decatur House and another one of our wonderful lectures. Tonight is one of the annual National Heritage lectures that we do in partnership with the u. S. Capitol Historical Society and the u. S. Supreme court Historical Society. We have our wonderful colleagues from both here tonight and my great friend jane campbell, the new president of the capitol Historical Society. And i would like to welcome her tonight. On june 4th, 1919, the 19th amendment was passed and sent to the states for ratification. The sufferagists used the white house as a backdrop to challenge inequity and bring attention to the cause and tonight we look forward to hearing more about their successful efforts to secure womens rights to vote. Before i introduce our speaker, i have a couple of other intro
Youre watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see here online at booktv. Org. And youre watching booktv on cspan2. We are on the campus of the university of arizona talking with professors here who are also authors. Want to introduce you to Linda Lumsden who is an associate professor of journalism here at the university of arizona and the author of this book, inez the life and times of Inez Milholland. Who was she, professor lumsden . Guest well, she was, one, the sole martyr for womens suffrage in the united states. She was arguably the most famous female political figure of the 1910s. And she was the epitome of the new woman which was a group that really were the first feminists of the 20th century. Among other things, she was as vassar graduate, she was a lawyer who had the fight to be able to practice. She was a free lover, part of the Greenwich Village crowd. She was a war correspondent. She was a socialist. She was an advocate for prostitute
She was the epiphany of the new woman which was the first feminist of the 21st century among other things. She was a graduate, a lawyer that have to fight to be able to practice. She was a freedom lover partly the Greenwich Village crowd and was a war correspondent. She was a socialist, she was an advocate for prostitutes and basically anything any person that was the underdog. She also was rich and beautiful and she liked to dance. Host you open the book and what period are we talking about . Guest 1908 and 1909 and junior ambassador to college and also a star athlete, extremely popular sort of the start of the campus. The Womens Suffrage Movement had just gotten a joke in the u. S. Because they are doing soap box and going out to the streets and of course women in the streets was quite shocking. We know the association. Inez spent her teenage years in britain and they were ahead of the demonstration etc. So she says we would like to have the women speak on the College Campus and he s
She is an associate professor of journalism. Who was she. She was the sole murder for womens suffrage in the united states. She was the most famous political figure of 1910 and she was the epitome of the new woman it was a really the first feminists of the 21st century. She was a graduate and a lawyer who had to fight to be able to practice she was a free lover. She was a war correspondent. She was a socialist she was an advocate for prostitutes and a person who was the is the underdog. She also was rich beautiful. And she liked to dance. What time are we talking about. This is 1908 or 1909. Shes also a star athlete is extremely popular in the start of the campus. Theyve just gotten kind of adult in the u. S. They are going out to the streets. The women in the street is quite shocking. And then ascending the teenage years in britain. And so she goes there. They can speak on our Womens College campus. Weirdest can educate you. She does not take no for an answer. About 25 students and fa
Welcome to the Cato Institute institute. I am david boaz executive Vice President of the institute and its my honor today to be able to introduce and moderate this program. We hear a lot these days for the past few decades about moral decline in america, moral decline in the world. It covers a lot of different areas. Not clear that those are always the most relevant areas to what we might consider public morality. Bill bennett made a career out of talking about moral decline. Lots of radio talk shows have that is a common theme. Most days theres an oped in the Washington Times decrying moral decline in america and indeed i saw recently that threequarters of americans think that we are in a period of moral decline. So it seems pretty convincing but there is an argument that we are in an era of moral progress and i think more people are starting to speak up on the side of both moral progress and economic tangible progress in the world. As i point out in my own forthcoming book, the liber