The day, i am a david milne i teach at the university of east anglia in the u. K. Unfortunately, a professor cannot be with us today. It goes without saying she will be greatly missed. If you lived in the u. K. Or the u. S. , it is probably fair to say that 2016 was a challenging and distracting year. In june, the u. K. Voted to leave the european union. In november, the u. S. Said hold my beer and elected donald trump to the presidency. One group in particular remained calm and productive during this tumultuous time and i refer to the historians of the United States in the 18th and 19th centuries. In 2016, a man published his first book, the computer see the contest the conspiracy of free trade. Nicholas published his third book. 2016, Danielle Holtz asked who are the true conservatives . She passed with flying colors the following year. Matt published6, his first book with Harvard University press. Books and the dissertation were met with great acclaim. 2016 was a bad year for the re
So thrilled to welcome blanche home. For those of you i have not had a chance to say hello to come i am the president of Hunter College and its an incredible institution which of course the institute is a part and it couldnt be more fitting that we are here tonight to celebrate this book and its author and subject in this house. [applause] we are gathered here at home and when our roosevelt shares with her husband, and i think it is fair to say her motherinlaw also for 25 years. From the front steps we enter today, franklin and eleanor departed to washington in 1933 to assume the glorious burden and the unparalleled challenges of economic oppression and the global war. While the book we are debuting tonight covers the war years and decades after when Eleanor Roosevelt became not just the first lady of the land of the first lady of the world i think it is fair to say that her activism, her sense of justice and belief in womens rights in the quest for civil rights for all commitments tha
There were lots of events going on but i absolutely could not not to be here because we were so thrilled to welcome blanche home. For those of you i have not had a chance to say hello to come i am the president of Hunter College and its an incredible institution which of course the institute is a part and it couldnt be more fitting that we are here tonight to celebrate this book and its author and subject in this house. [applause] we are gathered here at home and when our roosevelt shares with her husband, and i think it is fair to say her motherinlaw also for 25 years. From the front steps we enter today, franklin and eleanor departed to washington in 1933 to assume the glorious burden and the unparalleled challenges of economic oppression and the global war. While the book we are debuting tonight covers the war years and decades after when Eleanor Roosevelt became not just the first lady of the land of the first lady of the world i think it is fair to say that her activism, her sense
Stanton. She is a historian of womens history. We are delighted to have her here tonight. Elizabeth griffith, thank you for being here. [applause] hello, everybody. We are making a few adjustments here. The light relates to cspan filming, so we are stuck with the light, which is affecting some of the colors. I hope you have already noticed that the background was suffrage for all. [laughter] hello, welcome, and thank you for being here. Thank you to the smithsonian for the invitation and the opportunity to talk about what im learning as i write a new book. This book is about women in the 20th century between the two betweenon washington, the march 1913 suffrage march, organized by alice paul the day before Woodrow Wilson was a nigra, and the march january here, around the country and around the world the day after president trumps inauguration. Spanhundredyour encompasses economic, legal rights for women, large cultural shift, sexual expectations, as and. As sexism, misogyny, historian
National womens party. The National Party was hounded by a woman named alice paul in 1913 as the Congressional Union for womens suffrage. The Congressional Union for womens suffrage became the National Womens party in 1916. This group of women spent seven years actively lobbying the president and congress for a federal suffrage amendment. At which time, once the received the amendment in 1920, they began, they wrote and began lobbying for the equal rights amendment. During the period where they were lottery lobbying for suffrage, they were working all over the country actively garnering support from western women voters and bringing the fight directly to the president s doorstep. They had headquarters over on on Lafayette Square where they could walk out their door and be right at the president s doorstep in a matter of minutes. And they began picketing the white house, one of the first groups to do so, when the United States entered world war i in 1917. At that pit at that time, the p