Youre watching American History tv. Let me tell you about our speaker tonight. Wynn fellowed gallaghers books include how the post office created america, just the way you are a New York Times notable book, working on god, the power of place and new, understanding our need for novelty and change. She has written for numerous publications such as the atlantic monthly, Rolling Stone and the New York Times. If her newest book, new women in the old west from settlers to suffragists, an untold american story, is available for purchase from politics and prose. If you use the link in the chat box which is also available on our web site, youll be able to purchase the book with a 10 is discount 10 discount. Just be sure to use the code special 10 when checking out. Now, please join me in welcoming to the smithsonian Winifred Gallagher. Hi, wynn fellowed. Hi, kathy. Thanks so much, its wonderful to be with you. Before i begin, aye like to see a few id like to say a few words about the woman you
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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
Written for the atlantic monthly, rolling stone, and the new york times. Her newest book, new women in the old west, from settlers to suffragists, an untold american story, is available for purchase. If you lose the link in the chat box, its also available on our website. Youll be able to purchase the book with a 10 discount. Just make sure to use the code when checking out. Please join me in welcoming to the smithsonian, winifred gallagher. Hi winifred. Hi kathy. Thanks so much, its wonderful to be with you. Before i begin, id like to say a few words, before we begin, about mina westbye. You can see her on screen with her cousin. After homestead in north dakota. She was a Norwegian Immigrant who spoke no english at all when she arrived in the u. S. But she filed her homestead claim, lived on it for five years, and then sold it for a nice profit, which he used to start out in a new career as a photographer, with her own studio. Like the other women we will talk about tonight, she made
When people who aren’t familiar with Northwestern ask me where I go to school, I often find myself telling them my university is in “a suburb just outside of Chicago.” Once you’re here, though, you’ll quickly realize Evanston is a strong community of 78,000 people with a long history and many sites to explore. Here’s.