Thank you so much and thank you as always, to politics and prose for creating this space for us and for having us here. And thank you all for for coming to share the evening with us. Its thrilling for me to be on a panel again with elizabeth cobbs. We had the great pleasure and i had the privilege of being on a panel with her five years ago in tucson, when we both had books out at about the same time at the tucson book festival, and our panel was called women in war because elisabeth had written a wonderful book called the hello girls about women, telephone operator during world war one, who were among the First American women to be in combat settings when they went to france during world war one and kept the troops in touch with each other. And that was wonderful. And i had written a book about women codebreakers during world war two, and also on the panel was kate moore, who had written a wonderful book called radium girls. And that was i remember that elizabeth went first of the thr
Thank you so much and thank you as always, to politics and prose for creating this space for us and for having us here. And thank you all for for coming to share the evening with us. Its thrilling for me to be on a panel again with elizabeth cobbs. We had the great pleasure and i had the privilege of being on a panel with her five years ago in tucson, when we both had books out at about the same time at the tucson book festival, and our panel was called women in war because elisabeth had written a wonderful book called the hello girls about women, telephone operator during world war one, who were among the First American women to be in combat settings when they went to france during world war one and kept the troops in touch with each other. And that was wonderful. And i had written a book about women codebreakers during world war two, and also on the panel was kate moore, who had written a wonderful book called radium girls. And that was i remember that elizabeth went first of the thr
The tucson book festival, and our panel was called women in war because elisabeth had written a wonderful book called the hello girls about women, telephone operator during world war one, who were among the First American women to be in combat settings when they went to france during world war one and kept the troops in touch with each other. And that was wonderful. And i had written a book about women codebreakers during world war two, and also on the panel was kate moore, who had written a wonderful book called radium girls. And that was i remember that elizabeth went first of the three of us. And the minute she started talking, i was like, this is just going to be great. So so youre in for a treat to to hear her speak about her wonderful work. And im such a fan of your book and really look forward to to talking about it and to hearing you talk about it. So id love to just hear you talk a little bit broadly about the book and and its themes and thesis and what caused you to write it.
was a noted antebellum performer, one of the most famous women of her day. but she was noted because she was an activist in the cause against slavery. she was famous abolitionist. she opposed indian removal instead up for native american rights. she was an attendee at the first women s rights convention and frequent speaker at the women s rights meetings through the 18 fifties. and she spoke on a number of other causes as well, major and minor of her day. she believed in religious tolerance, she believed in temperance. and a number of other social causes of her day. and so, i m going to talk about her but i m doing a couple of other things here for you to. a premise of this course is the idea that you must understand women reformers and their context of their day. so i m going to trace her personal context, which is very important, she was a quicker and little talk about what that means. but also her social context. her social and political and religious context, the things t
And in those several capacities, its a pleasure for me to welcome all of you attending this symposium in person. As well as our audience on cspan to this Second Annual symposium on constitutional issues. This year, we examine the 15th amendment and invite a conversation as our Program States on suffrage in light of the hopes and realities of american identity and governance. In many ways this university is the ideal venue for such a conversation. Envisioned as a Great National episcopal institution by a group of founding bishops in the 1850s, the university of the south by 1860 possessed more than 6,000 acres of land on the Cumberland Plateau in tennessee. It had an endowment half the size of harvards. I often think with my regents about what that would mean for us today. We wouldnt be lamenting an 8 return. And saw itself, in that vision, with colleges of different sizes, schools of law and medicine and business and theology. Saw itself indeed as americas first truly comprehensive pri