It is me, your professor. Thomas balcerski. Im excited to offer you a lecture of the antebellum congress. The outline, we start with a review of the first and second party systems. I will introduce a concept to you, a new concept, political culture, and compare that to something we have encountered before, Political Parties. Finally, the bulk of the lecture is going to be presenting new evidence on the antebellum political culture. As you will see, i have three major areas of evidence to talk about today. One, Tobacco Culture. Number two, political friendships, and number three, affairs of honor. I will conclude their after getting through that evidence. Like we often do in the class, i will start with an image on the screen. Im going to ask you to tell me what you see. This is Lady Washingtons reception from 1861. Take it in. Who can point out something you see right away that strikes you . Lady washington is on a platform. Prof. Balcerski how high do you think she is . Off the ground
Leading up to the civil war, these friendship and alliances disintegrated. Prof. Balcerski welcome everybody. It is me, your professor. Im excited to offer you a lecture of the antebellum congress. The outline, we start with a review of the first and Second Party Systems. I will introduce a concept to you of a lyrical culture and compare that to something we have encountered before, Political Parties. Finally, the bulk of the lecture is going to be presenting new evidence on the antebellum political culture. As you will see i have three , major areas as evidence to talk about today. One,acone, Tobacco Culture. Number two, political friendships, and number three, affairs of honor. Like we often do in the class, i will start with an image on the screen. Im going to ask you to tell me what you see. This is Lady Washingtons reception from 1861. Take it in. Who can point out something you see right away that strikes you . Lady washington is on a platform. Prof. Balcerski how high do you thi
Captioning performed by vitac on that note, Pablo Miguel Martinez on facebook references that. Mrs. Bush invited and then disinvited poets to the white house. Has she ever commented on this debacle, as the viewer called it . Has she spoken out about what that meant . Not that im aware of. I think that she has a tendency to say that it is unfortunate that people cant come together and have a civilized discussion. That once again, you might be able to find some Common Ground if you can get beyond that rhetoric. But i dont think shes smopoke about it directly. Martha is watching us. Hi, martha. Youre on. Caller hey. Thank you so much for taking my call. You know, its interesting that between laura bush and last week Hillary Clinton, theyre two women of my generation. One has chosen one path. One has chosen another path. Both women i admire very much. The one success they have had is that they have both raised strong, successful young women. Can you comment on the difference between the tw
Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Up next on American History tv on cspan3, an interview laura bush, what was your initial reaction the first time your husband said i think im going to run for president . Well, i cant really remember initially what my act reaction was. I think it was a bit slower than all of a sudden saying im going to run for president. He was governor and had been governor for one term and reelected and i slowly think we both started talking about it. He talked about it and of course other people were talking to him about it. I knew what it was like. I knew already what it would be like to run for president. I knew what it would be like to live in the white house. George and i had an advantage that only one other family has had so far, the John Quincy Adams family. Because wed seen somebody we loved in that office, and we visited him very often. We moved to washington in fact in 1987, rather, to work on president bushs campaign. And so i saw them then
11, 1963, that defined jfks response to the Nuclear Arms Race and civil rights. Exploring the american story, watch American History tvs th o cspan 3. Did i feel prepared . Yes, i did really did. First of all i wasnt elected so it didnt make that much difference. I did notice, though, the difference between being the Vice President s wife and the president s wife is huge because the Vice President s wife can say anything, nobody cares. The minute you say one thing as president s wife youve made the news. So that was a lesson i had to learn. During george bushs presidency barbara bush used the office of first lady to promote literacy and raise awareness about aids and homelessness and earned his way into the history books, she and Abigail Adams the only women in our history to be the wife and mother of a president. Good evening and welcome to first ladies influence and image. Tonight is the story of barbara bush. The wife of Herbert Walker bush and here for the next 90 minutes to tell u