Omaha throughout the day on cspan2s book tv and sunday afternoon at 2 00 on American History tv on cspan3. American history tv was at the organization of american historians annual meeting in st. Louis, missouri. This interview is about 20 minutes. I understand youre getting close to completing your dissertation. What is your topic . My dissertation topic is slavery and involuntary servitude in the southwest. I am looking at both mexican debt peonage and indian slavery as two forms of involuntary servitude that existed in that region in the southwest. I am contextualizing those two systems of slavery within the idea of slavery in the american south. A much more familiar form of slavery to most people in the United States is the plantation style race based black slavery in the south. Many people are not aware that other forms of slavery did exist in america being indian slavery and peonage. I am looking at those two forms of slavery in the 19th century. What does the term debt peonage m
Group opposed to president reagans foreign policy. In 1998, there were two capital policeman shot and killed at the capitol. There have been those instances over time. And yet, the capitol has remained remarkably open building. Senate historian emeritus don ritchie and race mock ray smo ck on history of the house and senate, its leaders and prominent events, tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Recently, American History tv was at the organization of american historians annual meeting in st. Louis, missouri. We spoke with professors authors and graduate students about the research. Thi interview is about 15 minutess. You are a lecturer in history in american studies at the university of tennessee in knoxville. Your panel at the organization of the on Capital Punishment in the 19th century south. How common were executions . Bob hutton executions nationwide were common. In certain rural areas, they were relatively seldom because people did not like to convict their friends
Track. We have a fairly large campus, full security and maintenance apartment. We have when we have training going on we are open 365 busy year for training. We recently did our dirt surface here in keeneland. We have highly engineered dirt. We are fortunate that we have a great surface and the trainers that are in our service love it. You have a lot of traders that treat this as their home base. And they ship to those other racetracks to run in those other races and then come back here. Trainers love to come back here. Every morning, you see some of the best horses in the world working out. You see those famous trainers. There are so many people because of the horse farms who can live anywhere in the world which used to live here because of what they are able to do here locally. Keeneland is a fun and social atmosphere, much like an sec football game. You have tailgating early in the morning. Our races do not start until 1 00. People start piling in around noon. On our larger saturday
Folks that came in overnight. I never knew what time i was going to go home. Depending on the schedule, what activities were going on certainly if there is a world situation that occurs, i have spent five days there at a time. I really cannot say there was a typical day. They were all memorable. I cannot say they were all enjoyable. The staff was the same way. I knew that i could count on them. They had regular hours. They were there from such time to such time. I said, look, something just happened in the middle east. The president is going to have a news conference. I need you seven people to stay here. You cannot go home at 3 30. You need to stay here and be prepared. They knew that was their responsibility. There was never any question. That is what they were there for. We serve the president. I hope that answers your question. I have a daughter. My wife could tell you many stories about birth meals burnt meals and not getting there in time. The we have a wonderful collection of ph
Susan swain Caroline Scott harrison was born in 1832 in oxford, ohio, where she met Benjamin Harrison. Married when she was 21, she grew into an accomplished artist, interested in womens issues. Although the harrison presidency has been rated as fairly unsuccessful by some historians, those who track first ladies consider Caroline Harrison as one of the more underrated to serve in this role. Well learn why in this segment of first ladies influence and image. And here to tell us more about the story of Caroline Harrison are two guests who know the office well. Edi mayo, first ladies historian, the director emeritus of that enormously popular first ladies exhibit at the smithsonian. Edi, thanks for coming back. Edith mayo thank you. Susan swain and bill seale, white house historian, has spent his professional career understanding the history of that building. Among his books is the president s house. Bill and edi are both members of cspans Academic Advisory Committee for this series. And