Everybody has to move. Thank you for coming out. Im ginger, part of the event team. If you will do me a favor and check your cell phones and make sure they are turned to vibrate. We do 300 events around town each year. If you are not on our mailing list you can set up for our mailing list at the front. We send 3 or 4 emails a month. Tonight we welcome four contributors to the anthology appalachian reckoning. Anthony harkins, meredith mccarroll, bob hutton and ivy brashear. This is a diverse, complex and the management of response to hillbilly elegy a memoir of family and culture in crisis. I will turn the floor over to them. Anthony harkins is professor of history, the author of hillbilly, a cultural history of an american icon. Meredith mccarroll is director of writing and rhetoric, the author of race and film. T. R. C. Hutton teaches american studies at the university of tennessee and is the author of it is i will say this wrong. Blood he blessed. Politics and violence published to t
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
Their workplace or household or what have you. There was a lot of cheap labor available for people willing to carry a gun and tin badge for a paycheck. Bob hutton, thank you very much. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts take you to historic places. We traveled to philadelphia to learn about the museum of the American Revolution. Located two blocks from independence hall, the museum is scheduled to open in early 2017. Steve the idea for the museum goes back a century went descendents of George Washington put up for sale the tent that houston in every campaign of the revolution. It was acquired by a minister. That launched a century of collecting. And launch the idea of a museum to tell the entire story of the revolution. The collections of the museum are in comparable. They have no pair. No peer. We have objects related to washington which truly are unique, oneofakind. They bring to life his leadership, his incredible role in keeping the Continental Army together and nev
Counterpart. Polk besides he has to accept the treaty because there is no longer congressional support. He writes in his diary about it saying the probability that congress would not grant man or money to prosecute the war and i might lose new mexico and california. To conclude here, did the Antiwar Movement achieve its goals . Certainly not. Henry clay wanted the United States out of mexico without taking territory. I do not know if it was an extremely realistic position but it was clays session. Did the antiway position. Did the Antiwar Movement and the war . I think it forced him so i think you can say it ended the war. It did limit the territorial acquisition. Had polk been allowed to continue fighting mexico would have been forced to give up more land will stop mobilized to the public land. It mobilized to the public in support of bringing a war to the close for the first time. It is important to recognize that Antiwar Movements existed in the past, they can work, and limit the lo
Great plains and new england. Most of the former confederacy keeps the Death Penalty up until the present. There are a few exceptions. Are you continuing to research this topic now . Bob hutton i am beginning to move on to other things. What are you working on now . Bob hutton im looking at the usage of private detectives during the gilded age and progressive era and how that related to labor issues as well as jim crow. What led you to this topic . Bob hutton sheer happenstance. It is something that has been percolating for more than 10 years. I could not tell you the moment i became interested in the history of American Private detectives, except to say it is not something that has been written about much in the context of the gilded age. Although that was sort of a golden era for that particular profession. Why was that . Bob hutton there were a lot of wealthy men who needed surveillance or enforcement in their workplace or household or what have you. There was a lot of cheap labor a