Im david ferry archivist of the United States and its my pleasure to welcome you to todays virtual author lecture with zachary m schreg author of the fires of philadelphia which describes the events surrounding the antiimmigration riots in philadelphia in 1844. Before we begin id like to tell you about two upcoming programs. You can view on our youtube channel. On thursday, july 8th at noon amy stone will discuss the man who hated women her new book about antivice activists and us postal inspector Anthony Comstock and on thursday, july 15th at noon. Well hear from paul lettersky who in 1965 was assigned to assist the legendary fbi director jay edgar hoover. Letterskys new book the director describes his years in hoovers inner circle. We lived through periods of unrest people may be tempted to look nostalgically to the better days in the past a thoughtful closer. Look at those long gone days. However, may reveal that the conflicts of the present have deep roots in the past. Several time
The navy and tracy crowe, a former marine have put together an illuminating anthology of womens writings about their experiences in war titled its my country too womens military stories from the American Revolution to afghanistan its all documenting the courage, resourcefulness and resilience with which women have served in the armed forces. Women have been struggling to fight alongside men since the beginning of our country, really. Back during the revolutionary period women would sometimes follow their husbands into war out of necessity. Many could be found in military camps working as long crisis, cook said nurses. In the civil war, some functioned as spies and several hundred women disguised as men served as folders in either the union or confederate side. In world war i, women were allowed to join the military in limited roles and those roles expanded some during world war ii. Although, they still did not include combat duty. Not until 1976, where the first women admitted to the m
The navy and tracy crowe, a former marine have put together an illuminating anthology of womens writings about their experiences in war titled its my country too womens military stories from the American Revolution to afghanistan its all documenting the courage, resourcefulness and resilience with which women have served in the armed forces. Women have been struggling to fight alongside men since the beginning of our country, really. Back during the revolutionary period women would sometimes follow their husbands into war out of necessity. Many could be found in military camps working as long crisis, cook said nurses. In the civil war, some functioned as spies and several hundred women disguised as men served as folders in either the union or confederate side. In world war i, women were allowed to join the military in limited roles and those roles expanded some during world war ii. Although, they still did not include combat duty. Not until 1976, where the first women admitted to the m
If you are tweeting today, use the hashtag gbf, and we need your feedback. Surveys are available at the tent and on our web site. Complete a survey for a chance to win a 100 visa gift card. Im pleased to introduce author kristen green. Shell be signing books immediately after the presentation, and copies of her books are on sale in the politics prose tent, a great partner for us this year. A quick word about buying books. Even though this is a free event, it does help the book festival if you buy books. The more books we sell at our event, the more publishers are willing to send their authors here to the book festival. Purchasing books from politics prose does benefit the local economy. It supports local jobs, supports our book festival. So if you enjoy the program and youre in a position to do so, please consider buying the authors books here today. So let me introduce kristen. Kristen green is an author who grew up in farmville, virginia, and thats important because its important to
Tv. Cspan, created by Americans Television companies and brought to you as a service your cable or satellite provider. He has run twice for president and has written four books, the most recent reviving america. Steve forbes, the issues you talk about and write about, are they being discussed in this election . Actually not the way they should be. In many ways this is the most content Free Campaign weve had in decades. Take the republican side, most candidates had nice position papers but how many of them lead with issues the way i did with the flat tax. Whatever you think with donald trump, even though i didnt agree with a lot of it, he put it out there and what is amazing, his 16 opponents didnt realize what he was showing them, if you lead with an issue lead like you have conviction and you can get peoples attention. Its amazing. We shouldnt say this on the air but i fantasize that joe stalin back for five minutes could shoot all the Political Consultants because they dont really un