And religion. I started out studying quakers and quakerism in the colonial period and when i got to the revolution his name kept coming up. When i try to research and i couldnt find anything about him, or very little, and what was there was very conflicted and nobody seemed to be able to understand his actions. Very few people have heard of him today. Thats in stark contrast to his reputation during his lifetime. In the years immediately leading up to the revolution, his name was better known than washington or franklin. John dickinson wrote many of americas first state papers, and many of the highest level documents, policy documents, constitution, legislation. But he also wrote many more things for ordinary American People. And spoke to them in a way that very few other leaders did. These include newspaper articles, homes and americas first patriotic songs. Dickinson first entered the National Political scene and he was phenomenal leader of the Stamp Act Congress and wrote the stamp
Night at 9 00 eastern on cspan. Historian when the lower discusses her soontobe published book hitlers theories, and german women in the nazi killing fields. She spoke to a book tv and book expo america. We have brought you several interviews of the past two weekends from the publishing industrys annual trade show and all of these can be viewed online at book tv booktv. Org. Host no a preview of the new book hitlers furies. German women in the nazi killing fields. What is your book about . Its about entire generations of german women, i call them the world war one baby boomers, an increase right after the first world war, the spike. 1918, 1919. That coincided with german women getting the vote. The surge of the theme of population coinciding with the opening up of womens opportunities politically with the vote. So the stories about this generation that came of age during the time of the nazi regime in the 30s, who saw opportunities that they did not have before to be part of the politi
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