You all can imagine. So im just going to dive right into it. The title of todays talk is subreporters and sob sisters. Because its a new job that emerged for women. And i want to tell you the story of how some pretty bold and r remarkable women sized the opportunities created by the circumstances of their time to carve out a public space for themselves and to make a voice for themselves and for others when womens voices were not welcomed or, or respected that much. So history is always the story of individuals responding creatively to the conditions and circumstances in which they live. And so, to really understand how this unfolded and how this new type of job, that being a newspaper reporter, in some of the biggest cities of the country, to understand how this came about, we really have to back up and talk about the business of journalism in the 1800s. And specifically, i want to talk about a new Business Model that emerged in the 1830s, called the penny press. Okay. This was a new t
You all can imagine. So im just going to dive right into it. The title of todays talk is subreporters and sob sisters. Because its a new job that emerged for women. And i want to tell you the story of how some pretty bold and r remarkable women sized the opportunities created by the circumstances of their time to carve out a public space for themselves and to make a voice for themselves and for others when womens voices were not welcomed or, or respected that much. So history is always the story of individuals responding creatively to the conditions and circumstances in which they live. And so, to really understand how this unfolded and how this new type of job, that being a newspaper reporter, in some of the biggest cities of the country, to understand how this came about, we really have to back up and talk about the business of journalism in the 1800s. And specifically, i want to talk about a new Business Model that emerged in the 1830s, called the penny press. Okay. This was a new t
You all can imagine. So im just going to dive right into it. The title of todays talk is subreporters and sob sisters. Because its a new job that emerged for women. And i want to tell you the story of how some pretty bold and r remarkable women sized the opportunities created by the circumstances of their time to carve out a public space for themselves and to make a voice for themselves and for others when womens voices were not welcomed or, or respected that much. So history is always the story of individuals responding creatively to the conditions and circumstances in which they live. And so, to really understand how this unfolded and how this new type of job, that being a newspaper reporter, in some of the biggest cities of the country, to understand how this came about, we really have to back up and talk about the business of journalism in the 1800s. And specifically, i want to talk about a new Business Model that emerged in the 1830s, called the penny press. Okay. This was a new t
Good evening and welcome. Im ken ken weinstein, president and ceo of Hudson Institute. I apologize for the condition of my voice this evening. I really, really wanted to be here for the book form for Melanie Kirkpatricks new new book, the holiday at the heart of the american experience. I want to thank our friends at the historic Explorers Club in manhattan, especially the executive director and our good friend judas and i also want to thank the viewing audience on cspans book tv. Hudson institute is a policy organization that is based in washington, d. C. We promote International Leadership for the sake of security, prosperity, and freedom. Most of our work is in the Public Policy space. We do a lot of work on the future of security in asia, we look at fighting isis, talk about trying to overcome the challenges of the iran deal and so this book is an outlier of the product, will be thankful for many things as thanksgiving approaches like many of our its extraordinarily timely coming a
Life can change in a single instance but saying so doesnt make it any less shattering when an incident strikes in your own life. For the pregnant young mother at home in the central hills of New Hampshire the moment arrives in midseptember 1822 when it began to snow. Sarah was a new englander and snowed it usually phaser but this wasdifferent. It was too early in the season for the first snow. Leaves were still on the trees and only a few had turned red or gold and she stood at her front door watching the snow transform the Village Green into a sheet of white she was filled with worry about her husband. David had left home on horseback heading for an appointment with a legal client eight miles away. He was lightly dressed, unprepared for the storm and when he finally staggered into the house he was doped through to the skin, shivering with the cold. Sarah helped him undress. The cold turned to beaver and to pneumonia. By september 5 her husband was dead. Her funeral was held in a cerem