i m lee pai hong. and i m kerry sayers. and i m your host, bill kurtis. this is through the decades. the 80s. a decade we celebrate often for its music, s movies and its loud fashion. all delivered 24/7 to our homes through the increasingly popular, and available, cable television. rising awareness of a hole in the ozone layer and the stock exchange s black monday crash . it s a decade often remembed fondly by those who ved it. perhaps because of advances in chnology or the economic and political calm impact of those 10 yrs on pop culture had a more mesmerizing effect than the years that came oments that defined that 80 we begin witthe event could summarize it all big, colorful and over the top. it was the major happening that invited every single american to stand shoulder to sulder with celebrities, each playing an equal role. its name, like its goal was hands across america and when it took place it consumed us all. it took place it consumed us all. yes! all righ
i m david carroll from chicago. hi, david. hi. in the last year published in the journal of the abraham lincoln association there has been great speculation on mary lincoln purchasing penny royal at dill lard s drugstore in springfield when she was pregnant with tad who was born with a cleft palate. penny royal is used to rid dogs of fleas or induce abortion. do you have insight on this recent scholarship? i m sorry. i can t comment on that. my recent move and dislocation of many of my books and pieces meant that i don t have the 41 of oh mary lincoln but moving from ireland was difficult. i would say from my reading i have no evidence from her letters or otherwise that there would be any way i could comment or believe she was trying to not have a fourth child. the lincolns were besoted by their children. they were very proud and devoted that when she suffered family tragedies and the death of oh little eddie she was pregnant within a month. indeed the idea of having
damian shields is an engaging young scholar. he s an archaeologist by trade. he s an historian by emotion and2-y he gets the way you have to do those things. let s not decide objects and places don t matter, only the words someone wrote on a piece of oh paper. it all matters. it s all evidence of how history unfolded and its impact on us today. yesterday was a great pleasure of mean. i picked pupup mr. clay and we went over to stone s river national battlefield and i managed not to lose him totally in that battlefield. we kbolt over to franklin just in time it was sort of dusk. the perfect time to study a man. all of this together means we dm have a unique opportunity to have a perspective and learn from a perspective that sometimes we don t take in here in tennessee. we do have civil war historians aplenty. sometimes you can shake a tree and a bunch fall down the. we don t get that international perspective so often. i think we are all just blessed l&!< and honored to have
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