Today. Thank you to Historic Alexandria for hosting and for the happy hour after this. We are going to try to keep it as close to 4 00 as possible. We can all get our beer we are looking forward to afterwards. This is the first inaugural, emerging revolutionary war symposium. We thank cspan for coming to film this. Hopefully, we will be an annual event. Keep your eyes out for next years symposium. To keep up with emerging revolutionary war and everything we are doing, check out our block, emergingrevolutionar emergingrevolutionarywar. Org. Find out everything we are up to. Check out our books. Rob and phil wrote a book about battles at lym s at lexington a concord. We have a couple books coming up early next year about valley forge. Keep up with us. This really im glad that we chose alexandria to have our inaugural symposium. Not only is it my hometown, but it was also George Washingtons hometown. Alexandria you can go to cities, new york, philadelphia, charlton, everywhere you go ther
[ applause ] in introducing tonight speaker, dr. Joanne freeman, i would like to mention at the outset that one of her most commendable qualifications is that she received her ph. D. From the university. Thats right, uva. [laughter] in any case, not long after receiving that degree, she was recognized already as one of the nations top young historians. She subsequently has achieved widespread recognition as a scholar of the revolutionary and Early National periods of American History. She is the author of numerous articles on those subjects which will appear in print in proper academic journals including the william and mary quarterly, the journal of policy history and the yale law journal among others. She has written oped pieces for the New York Times and appeared in numerous documentaries on pbs, the History Channel and radio programs like npr and the bbc. You may have seen her in the past week on the History Channel series on george washington. She has written several books, includ
on sunday, august 2nd booktv is live with media benjamin cofounder of the political advocacy group code pink on in depth, our live monthly call-in show. she s the author or editor of nine books including her most recent an investigation into the use of drones for military purposes, drone warfare. other titles include the greening of the revolution which examines cuba s use of organic agriculture and stop the next war now on how to create political change through activism. her other books cover topics such as how to aid people living this the third world profiles of inspiring women and further examinations of cuba. media benjamin, live, sunday august 2nd on in depth. and you can participate by sending your questions or comments to facebook.com/booktv, on twitter @booktv or call in. ginger adams otis talks about the 100-year struggle to integrate the new york city fire department which continues today. the fdny has only 300 black firefighters out of a total of 11,000.
tonight as we welcomed the discussion for the book firefight. all cell phones, ipads or whatever that makes noise please silent or put on vibrate. there there books for sale at the register and buy them plentifully so we can continue to do for events like this one. there will be a short reading and a panelist discussion and then assigning to follow. tonight s event is being filled by c-span for book tv and we are honored to have them with us, please be aware that you may be a bill for this event. we ll be passing a microphone around for the question-and-answer period. so if you have a question at the end please make sure that you have a microphone in your hand. thanks for working with us on that. our featured author is ginger adams otis, she has been writing about new york city politics for more than a decade. she is a staff writer at the ny daily news and has written for the new york post. wnyc, the ap, bbc, national public radio and the village voice. her new book, firefigh
host: i have no idea. there is no logical reason for it. i can tell you a great number of the people who opposed suffrage were women. explanations that i have read about women in particular opposing suffrage had to do with their roles. they sounded like the worst of s chauvinistic men that it is not our place to be in the voting booth. we have our places, our men have their places. this is not a good idea, i don t think they would ve used a term like this that it s not a good idea to confuse the roles. that was the general idea behind it. again this is coming from women it s really from men. follow-up question. on the 18th and 19th amendment. on one hand you had a lot of women who opposed suffrage but among women who are the most diehard activist for suffrage, you had prominent leaders who seem to be making deals who are very active in the movement of very supportive of the 18th amendment as well. would you you talk about that in the book. the political bargaining that se