thank you all for coming out tonight and supporting your local independent and employee owned bookstore. [applause] before we begin tonight i want to mention other programming we have coming up on thursday per code next week on tuesday we host former poet laureate along with a few contributors for his new anthology next wednesday we are hosting for the atlantis boston history many more events coming up you can find more information up by the registers when you pick up 19 century protest book page magazine well written in interviews that deserves a livelier but this is a general audience too vividly portrays this is essential reading for how the us became what it is today holly jackson and associate professor of massachusetts boston s in the new york times washington post and boston globe as well as other venues the author of one previous book a scholarly study of family values in 19 century american literature and culture living in cambridge massachusetts we are glad to hav
the town has since changed its name to chavaniac lafayette. and it is confirmed that almost anybody was some relationship, say through marriage, can have the name of a famous person to their own name. rather nice. lafayette never knew his father. his father was killed in battle against the british at age two. and he was raised by his very plain, but wise grandmother. .t chavaniac his own mother was much happier living in the palace in paris. which, of course, after the kings moved out, it was turned over for nobility to live there, and as you probably know, now is course, the- and of park is still there. it is a pretty place to visit and get the french flavor. which i certainly enjoy. and, he was treated like a prince. as a young lad. what thenew very early story of his family was. that, he came from the blood of nights, course through his blood system. he was an early challenger. unfortunately, his mother remained in paris, pretty much, and the boys stayed with his grandmoth
i also want to tell you right away that this is the first time that i have spoken on lafayette. i thought you d be interested in knowing that you are going to be at the maiden voyage of this trip. [laughter] mr. miller: i wonder about how much i could say to, and i wrote two pages of notes last night. i thought to myself, no, that is what the book is for. if you really want to know, you can consult the book. it is 446 pages. it is illustrated. and my wife says it moves along really rapidly. [laughter] mr. miller: the story of lafayette is quite profound. he was born to wealth. in central france. in a area called auvergne, and he grew in his early years in a chateau there called chavaniac. the town has since changed its name to chavaniac lafayette. and in france someone who has any kind of relationship through marriage can have the name of a famous person to their own name. rather nice. lafayette never knew his father. his father was killed in battle against the british at age
operated on socialist principles, using time money that could be earned with an hour of labor and exchanged for goods that took the same amount of labor to make. at new harmony robert del owens edited the new harmony gazette which took aim at what they called the trinity of evils private property, irrational religion, and marriage, which in their view was based on the other two evils. like other 19 century utopian experiments, new harmony failed quickly, but robert dale owen continued to pursue his interest in social reform. with the feminist freethinker francis wright also born in scotland, he founded a community devoted to educating freed slaves. he wrote the first book advocating for birth control alecto to represent indiana in the house of representatives and the 1840 s and in that capacity he drafted a bill to create the smithsonian institution. he subsequently sat on his first board of regents and shared the smithsonian building committee which built what we know we n