Have labeled her is crazy. This is an hour and 10 minutes. Honor andt only an privilege to introduce tonights speaker, it is for me a personal delight because she and i were classmates in princetons graduate History Program many years ago. Is the endowedon professor in American History at the university of texas at san antonio, and shes also one of the countrys most distinguished historians of american women, the south, and the civil war. Shes a proud daughter of kansas city, missouri, and she studied as an undergraduate, harvard, studied American History, and went for her phd at princeton, completing her dissertation on james mcpherson. Her dissertation would be published in 1982 as the book the plantation mistress, womens world in the old south her first work to be characterized justly as pioneering. The book forces us to rethink ite of our basic assumptions permanently alters our understanding of the old south and womens place in by my count, some 17 additional books, and several of
World. And that is a legacy that she leaves. Overseas tour staff recently traveled to worcester, massachusetts, to learn about it rich history. Youre watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. Coming up next, author Catherine Clinton details president lincolns wife mary. She considers how mary would have been remembered if she had died instead of her husband. Also talking about why the critics have labeled her crazy. Southern Methodist University center for president ial University Posted this event. It is not only an honor and a privilege to introduce tonight speaker, it is to me, a personal delight because she and i were classmates in princeton many years ago. Catherine clinton is the professor of American History at the university of texas at san antonio. She is also one of this countrys most distinguished historians of american women, the south, and the civil war. She is a proud daughter of kansas city, missouri, and she studied as an undergraduate at harv
The lives and careers of several family members including Grover Cleveland Vice President Adlai Stevenson and twotime democratic democratic illinois governor Adlai Stevenson second. This originally aired in 1996 and its about an hour. Cspan jean h. Baker, author of the stevensons a biography of an american family, whats the scope of this book . Guest well, its pretty broad and its a long book but it covers a lot of stevenson generations. And it also focuses on the most important, in some ways, of all the stevensons. And thats Adlai Ewing Stevenson ii, who lived from 1900 to 1965 and, of course, was the losing democratic president ial candidate in 1952 and 1956. It took me a long time to do and i really was trying hard to look at layers of stevensons and different views of family life, etc. , and not only do just a political biography of some of the best known stevensons. Cspan did you ever meet any of them . Guest yes, i did. The most prominent stevensons that i met were Adlai Stevenso
With your estimate of performance with that grand Strategic Vision . What has the most satisfaction and . In to secure so with that personal gratification so to talk about of a grand strategy tel is different roles the different places that is appropriate to working and executed at the appropriate time. To is your question directly when he was secretary of state the primary goal with hegemony on the continent it was not morally attractive but was successful to secure that objective that no execution as i talked about and with slavery had the vision but the country was not there yet. To confer to into actual policies so relate be allowed to say that if you read the official pronouncement that is true. And he has a great series of letters it is such great fodder and he says if anyone will talk about the successes of the Monroe Administration it will point squarely at the department of state and those are what achieved all of them. Slavery is not the main issue but personally from the sat
Salon while her sister Marion Campbell was embedded when several knickerbocker circles. Mrs. Eames in d. C. And she would later befriend 345irmary lincoln. The physical attributes of the district did not recommend it. Noah brooks described the streets as canals of liquid mud. It would be difficult to could be receive of a meaner street in architectural adornments than pennsylvania avenue, and as we just heard maybe the architect architectureal recommendations of real estate on pennsylvania avenue remain there. There were of course areas of the city which boasted palatial homes, the finest aide of Stephen Douglass near i street and jersey avenue where his wife adelle a legendary beauty, nearly 25 years his junior held equally sumptuous was the mansion built by senator William Gwynn from california who spent 75,000 to furnish his home. Gwen harbor was arrested on charges of disloyalty when the war began was imprisoned until 1863. Then he went off to paris and became involved in a scheme