And im the director of Community Partnerships for theMassachusetts Historical Society. Our program this evening is a seasonal, its a look at the tradition of Summer Reading we are joined by professor donna harringtonlueker on her new publication gavin kleespies, 19th century publishing the rise of Summer Reading. She is a passer in Newport Rhode island and she has an undergraduate degree from rhode island and phd. As a former magazine writer and editor, Research Interests include 19thcentury print culture, womens magazines on any period and radical or alternative press. Before we begin id like to extend a special welcome to anyone joining the Virtual Program for the first time. If youre not familiar with the Massachusetts Historical Society we are the first Historical Society in america and have been preserving publishing and sharing our history since 1791. We hold a collection of 14 million manuscript pages including the papers of the first three president s of the unitedstates. Or im
The economy, pretty much at a dead stop until may, maybe longer. The market is looking to the other side of the virus problem and surely welcomes more financial help. However, stocks are ending the worst month since 2008 and the dow will open lower this morning, off maybe 140 points. Similar story for the s p and for the nasdaq. A down opening bell today. The price of oil, well, that remains at depression levels. This morning we are in the low 20 per barrel and the average price of gasoline, you got to look at this, the National Average gas price has dropped below 2 a gallon. 1. 99, thats your number this morning. The price is dropping about two cents a day but so what . Demand has cratered, the roads are empty, and few people are taking advantage of dirtcheap gas. Now, this caused a stir yesterday. The u. S. Navy hospital ship arrived in new york and was greeted by crowds of onlookers. They were breaking social distancing rules. Those people who were holed up in their apartments and h
What were known as red legs. Jayhawkers. These are kansasians as he admits in his autobiography who feels the kansasans picked on them. To cross into missouri and get their revenge. So hes in an informal j jayhawking kansas regiment fighting in missouri. Then in 1864 he joins the kansas seventh which is the notorious jayhawking regimen. If you were a missourian and i said kansas seventh, you would know what that meant even probably today. And they had such a Bad Reputation for what they were carrying out in missouri that they got sent away from the kansas missouri border. He did see some service in the south and by the end of the war, hes back in st. Louis. Well, what did Buffalo Bills childhood in bleeding kansas and in his youth as a jayhawker in the civil war mean to him . You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all our video is archived. Thats cspan. Org history. In 1911, the triangle shirtways factory in new york caught fire and 146 workers died
And your emotion right now that youre feeling because we can turn that into action. I dont have all the answers on that. Im sure president obama doesnt have all the answers either and its just a really difficult thing. Thats why it is so, so important that Immigration Reform is on the forefront because whoever we elect, we express how important it is and not just people that are saying definitely us that are going through this situation so kids of undocumented folks and communities but also american citizens and people who are maybe not necessarily so close to the issue. Im sorry. I know what youre feeling. I get it. Thats why you have to be involved more than ever. My parents are immigrants, but they repatriated voluntarily and that took a lot of years of grieving without me knowing. I just want to ask you about milestones in your journey to reconcile your relationship conceptually with your parents s have responsibilities that are and youre being bicultural and privileged thaprivileg
M Stanton Evans author of the theme is freedom you start off saying you dedicated this book to the memory of your father. How come . What was the motivation . Well for one reason because he was my father, and a very good father. But also because many of the things that this book is about were things that i discussed with him many times. And about which i learned many things from him. So sort of for both of those reasons. Where did you live in the early days . I was born in texas and he was at that time he was for much of his life a College Professor and a teacher as was my mother who is still living. And very active by the way. And he was teaching at a Little School called texas a i in kingsville texas in 1934 before i was born. Then we moved before chattanooga tennessee, and he taught there at the university of chattanooga in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Then in world war ii he went in and he taught other schools as well. Then he went into the Atomic Energy commission when they wer