tv, a conversation with the author of the book, the president is a sick man which recounts the surgery being performed on a i can t recollya president disappearing for five days. i m david cowen, welcome back to our lunch and learn series. welcome to the university of oklahoma. thank you for coming. please join us again everyone next week on the 26th. we re going to continue the lunch and learn series of the director of the archival. this is an historic banking house, again, a week from this thursday. on the 24th, this is tuesday upcoming, we ll be screening the rediscovering alexander hamilton. this is the pbs documentary that was recently released and all of your questions about the movie can be answered because the producer will be in the house. turning our attention to today and matthew algeo and the president is a sick man. this the matthew s third book. his second harry truman s excellent adventure which traced their cross-country trip in 1953, got a lot of great
president is a sick man which accounts the surgery be performed on a yacht and present disappearing for five days. hi, i m david cowan, president of the museum of american finance. welcome back to our lunch and learn series. welcome to the university of central oklahoma and professor arnold. thank you for coming. please join us again, everyone, next week on the 26th we re going to continue the lunch and learn series. the director of the roth child archive will be here, melanie. they should be really fascinating. this is an historic banking house, again, a week from this thursday. and then on the 24th, this is tuesday upcoming, we ll be screening the rediscovering alexander hamilton. this is the pbs documentary recently released, and all your questions about the movie can be answered because the producer/director, michael pack, will be in the house. now, turning our attention to today and matthew algeo, and the president is a sick man. this is matthew s third book. his se
frances folsom cleveland was a celebrity first lady unlike almost any before her, and the mass production of her image to sell a variety of goods by the american consumer industry in the mid-1880s angered both her and her husband, president grover cleveland. to help us understand the frances cleveland sensation sweeping the country, we begin our story inside 1600 pennsylvania avenue as a curious nation waited for the details of a 49-year-old bachelor president marrying his 21-year-old bride inside the white house for the first and only time in our country s history, launching frances cleveland into instant celebrity. you re standing in the cross hall of the modern white house. it s the same basic layout as it would have been on june 2, 1886, when president grover cleveland and his bride-to-be, frances folsom, came down what was then the large staircase to the family quarters at the west end of this corridor. they would have proceeded down the hallway. the music started
relationship with boston, i m not from here i grew up in a small town in south dakota but i first visited here as a 12- year-old when my brother was in school and this trip made an enormous impression on me. we watched the freedom trail and iser i saw my first major league baseball game at fenway park. i started a program intended to rate my first seminar paper on boston in the era of the american revolution then changed my mind and chose a different topic. that topic led me to my dissertation project and ultimately, i followed a different intellectual path entirely. but this has been a winding path and led me back to boston after all. it s a pleasure to work on a boston topic for a number of reasons. unlike much of my earlier work which has been focused on relatively little-known characters and events, it s a place in time that immediately resonates with lots of people. while much of my earlier work has involved following the most evidentiary threads the sources for the proj
eraker combs through the almost 250-year-old evidence and tries to determine what really happened on that fateful day. this is about 45 minutes. a tangled relationship with boston. i grew up in a small town in south dakota. i first visited here as a 12-year-old when my brother was in school and the trip made an impression on me. i saw my first major league baseball game at fenway park. we walked the freedom trail. later, i lived in somerville for six years when i was working on my phd. i intended to write my first research seminar paper on boston in the era of the american revolution, but i changed my mind and chose a different topic. that topic led me to my dissertation project. ultimately, i followed a different intellectual path entirely. it has been a winding path that has led me back to boston after all. it was a pleasure to work on a boston topic for a number of reasons. unlike much of my earlier work .unlike much of my earlier work which is focused on relatively litt