The happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. I want to give you a version of what ive been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. Will present this room as a las vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us led headed thinkers turned into gold tone scholars and teachers picture a process of something that works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes class mates once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleagues, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little because money came to yale to study with harlem are a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that racked up group of students in american studies. clapping not a cold or exactly but we did become friends, puzzling over readings, yawning over brilliant, but sometim
Behind those pictures to study and understand the American West, she has been studying and writing about photographs for 40 years, and argued that more historians should use photographic archives in their work. One minute past 12 30. Welcome, everyone. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend, marnie sandweiss. Im going to give you a version of what i have been describing as an intellectual wedding toast. We will present this room as a vegas wedding chapel and tell the story of marnie and me and marnies work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. Us leadheaded thinkers turned into golden tongued scholars, writers, and teachers. Picture a process that works Something Like this. An Admissions Committee imagines a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while, they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden th
12 30 p. M. Welcome. I have the happy task of introducing your president and my friend marnie sandweiss. We will present this room and tell the story of marnie and me and her work, which got us all here. Let me start with the magical alchemy of graduate school. All of us leadheaded thinkers turned into scholars and teachers. The process works Something Like this. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes classmates. The classmates become colleagues. And once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleague, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little bit because she came to yale to study with Harold Lamarr a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that ragtag group in american studies. [applause] not a cohort exactly. We did become friends, puzzling throughdings, yawning brilliant, but sometimes excruciating seminars. Western history, some of you may know, was taught in the basement. And on frid
Professor free cites numerous examples of Elizabeth Cady stanton using racist rhetoric in her newspaper writings of the period, arguing that she used racism in an effort to attract allies in a fight to gain Voting Rights for white women only. The Womens Rights National Historical Park in seneca falls, new york is the host of this event. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is andrea. Superintendents of Womens Rights National Historical Park and Harriet Tubman National Historical park over in auburn. On behalf of the National Parks service it is my pleasure to welcome all of you here to your part. Before we start, i want to ask that everybody please silence of their cell phones so that our camera crew does not get disrupted. It is my delight to introduce you to our speaker dr. Laura free. Professor associate of history at hobart and William Smith colleges. Her work focuses on the interconnections of gender, race and politics in 19thcentury united states. Her most recent book, and the books
Her most recent book, and the books in which a program is based. Please join me in welcoming dr. Laura free. [applause] prof. Free good afternoon, thank you. I am really honored to be here. It is always a great thrill for a historian of suffrage to speak at seneca falls. I would like to acknowledge that we are on the traditional lands of the hope nations people and pay my respect to the elders, past and present. I would like to thank you for inviting me and setting up my visit. Thank you. I would like to recognize and thank the many park rangers who do the work of on the spot history and shared the special place with so many visitors. Finally i would like to thank , the park staff who maintain and clean the facilities and whose work goes unacknowledged. I am guessing that if you are here today you know who this is. This is Elizabeth Cady stanton. You see her with her longterm partner in activists work, susan b. Anthony. You probably already know a bit about her. You are probably aware