Announcer tonight on late night with seth meyers, natalie portman, philanthropist cindy mccain, music from Dave Matthews featuring the 8g band with fred armisen and now, Seth Meyers Seth good evening, im seth meyers and this is late night. Hows everybody doing tonight . Thats great to hear lets get to the news. Theres just one week until election day and whatever happens, it will be nice when my email inbox doesnt look like i just broke up with it the senate yesterday confirmed President Trumps nominee, judge Amy Coney Barrett, to the supreme court. And just think, someday youll tell your children about this, whether you wanted children or not. During a swearingin ceremony for judge Amy Coney Barrett last night at the white house, President Trump said, quote, this is a momentous day for america, for the United States constitution, and for the fair and impartial rule of law. Momentous in that its the last day for all of those things. First Lady Melania Trump campaigned for her husband i
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Garden spot of orchids. Growing up in a slave holding family, she ended up as the spells of the commanding general at the u. S. Army during the civil war. She and he was ulysses as grant shared 37 years together that included the hardships of war, the tribes of politics and eight challenging years in the white house. Welcome to our program, our continuing series first ladies influence an image. Tonight, the life of julia grant. Lets introduce you to our two guests of the table, a member of our Academic Advisory Panel for this year, we are delighted to have him here. Hes a Longtime White House a story in and the author of the president s house. Bill, its so great to see you. Pam is a historian at the ulysses as Grant National Historic Site and st. Louis majority and working on a biography of julia grant. Lets start with you, we last left the cities with the johnson,s after impeachment. And the politics with the radical republicans and the reconstruction, so set the stage for us as the g
With that selfdetermination and that fight for control. Some of those are fairly well known just like a navajo weaver we get to know their stories were lost to history and tell now and then to show the importance of individual actions even in the midst of a larger military conflict. And it is history that keeps the reader turning the pages. A writer and historian living in lincoln and writing for several publications the Washington Times and Smithsonian Magazine earning her ba in history and literature and phd from american studies from the university of iowa. Teaching at texas tech, cal state fullerton, harvard and brown also the author of true indignation and troubling earth. She will talk about the three cornered war and how it came to be or share some anecdotes during the process and read a passage or two that open to questions to thehe audience. Please help give a warm welcome to magan kate nelson. [applause] thank you for coming out on this drizzly cold night. Before we begin, wo
Her primary Source Research involved letters and diaries, military records and oral histories and photographs and maps from that time and nestor i specifically about nine individuals who worked towards it selfdetermination and fight for control of the region. Some of these people are generally well known to us like frontier carson. Others, like wanting to a navajo late weaver who is now, their stories were lost in history until now. And noticing under their stories show the importance of individual actions even in the midst of a larger military conflict. In the book learning start reviewing Library Journals and indeed it is history that keeps the reader turning the pages. Megan cates nelson is a writer and historian living in lincoln and she has written about the civil war from u. S. Western history and American Culture several publications including the New York Times and the Washington Post and the smithsonian magazine. She and her ba in history and literature from Harvard University