To d. C. Before i bring him to the podium, i want to make this a National Event with a scope that goes beyond this area code. We have a visitor from california here, a good friend of ours, and another wonderful friend from new york city. For some reason, im forgetting your name. John. John mackateer, im sorry, john. He represents the harvard conservancy developing the federal hall site of where the First Federal congress met into a going thing, a real destination in Lower Manhattan for studies of the early congresses. So welcome to everybody, whether you came from near or far, and well welcome paul poglar. [ applause ] thank you, chuck, for that introduction. I would like to thank the Historical Society for inviting me here today. So my talk today entitled congresss first debate on slavery and race is going to attempt to demonstrate, really, the central ways that this First National congressional debate really set the tone for these larger issues of slavery and race as they would play
To d. C. Before i bring him to the podium, i want to make this a National Event with a scope that goes beyond this area code. We have a visitor from california here, a good friend of ours, and another wonderful friend from new york city. For some reason, im forgetting your name. John. John mackateer, im sorry, john. He represents the harvard conservancy developing the federal hall site of where the First Federal congress met into a going thing, a real destination in Lower Manhattan for studies of the early congresses. So welcome to everybody, whether you came from near or far, and well welcome paul poglar. [ applause ] thank you, chuck, for that introduction. I would like to thank the Historical Society for inviting me here today. So my talk today entitled congresss first debate on slavery and race is going to attempt to demonstrate, really, the central ways that this First National congressional debate really set the tone for these larger issues of slavery and race as they would play
Good evening, everyone. And welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louise mirrer, president and ceo, and i am thrilled to see all of you in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium this evening. Tonights program, women in the white house is part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz speaker series. As always i like to thank mr. Schwartz for his great and generous support, which is enabled us to bring so many fine historians and writers to this stage. [ applause ] id also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience this evening and to thank them for their great generosity and all that they do on our institutions behalf and of course my great and talented colleague, our Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [ applause ] tonights program is presented in collaboration with our Brand New Center for womens history. And were grateful to our partners at hogan levels who are the corporate sponsor for womens history programming at New York Histori
She has published six books. Most recently editing in 2016 a companion to first ladies. Blackwell companion to american history. Monographs include reds in america, stolen secrets and the dawn of the cold war, loans and legitimacy, the evolution of soviet american revelations and the subject of tonights presentation which is for sale right outside. First Lady Florence harding, behind the tragedy and controversy. Dr. Sibly serves on the Editorial Board for american communist history and on the historical raisery committee for the United States department of state. She received her ph. D from the university of california santa barbara. Her commentary has appeared recently, to name a few, in time, the guardian, usa today and Canadian Broadcasting Company and the new yorker or the new york post, my apologies and heres something you dont hear about historians every single day. In 2011 she got to appear as Florence Harding in a play which she wrote at the ohio state marion campus. We are so
Good evening, everyone. And welcome to the New York Historical society. Im louise mirrer, president and ceo, and i am thrilled to see all of you in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium this evening. Tonights program, women in the white house is part of our bernard and Irene Schwartz speaker series. As always i like to thank mr. Schwartz for his great and generous support, which is enabled us to bring so many fine historians and writers to this stage. [ applause ] id also like to thank and recognize members of the Chairmans Council in the audience this evening and to thank them for their great generosity and all that they do on our institutions behalf and of course my great and talented colleague, our Vice President for Public Programs, dale gregory. [ applause ] tonights program is presented in collaboration with our Brand New Center for womens history. And were grateful to our partners at hogan levels who are the corporate sponsor for womens history programming at New York Histori