The Chautauqua Movement and women suffrage in the 19th century. Evolved fromhow it avoiding speakers in the earlier days to regularly including prosuffrage talks and spread to kansas in new york. The dwight d. Eisenhower library and museum hosted this event and provided the video. I would like to welcome our speaker so that we can learn more about the Chautauqua Movement. I will let her tell you about herself. Thank you for being here with us today. Ms. Bell thank you for having me. I was talking to dawn and samantha a couple of days ago and saying that i would have preferred and loved to have been there in person, and really looking forward to the day when i can visit and see the newly renovated museum. Until then, very thankful for technology that allows us to gather together today. I have lost the presentation. So i dont know if youre able to share the there it is. Great. Thank you. Presentation is based on some research that i did for my dissertation. Last may, which seems very lon
Growth of the u. S. Beef industry. The Watkins Museum of history and lawrence kansas hosted this event. Good evening everyone. Welcome to our latest book chat at the watkins. I am will hickox. I thank you for joining us tonight. Im starting to sound like a broken record before every event, but these days, when there are so many options for things to do with our free time, and you can just sit on your couch every evening. It is very encouraging and exciting for us here at the museum to have folks come in for our events. We really appreciate it. I know that the staff of the bookstore appreciates it as well. I will introduce tonights guest speaker. James sherow is University Distinguished professor at the department of history at kansas state university. He specializes in researching and teaching environmental history. Kansas history. North American Indian history and the history of the American West. Professor sherow sherow has written six books and numerous articles. It is a familiar re
A. Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. And the sides tend not to want to, not concede, but just address the very legitimate conscience claims that each side at least believes that it has. I think that the best place where those conscience claims are discussed are in small groups of people, and there have been intentional groups in the past. There was a network for some years called the Common Ground network of life and choice that drew a kind of committed group of very strongly prochoice and very strongly prolife people who wanted to have conversations about where they could collaborate and where they could, you know, find Common Ground and address very real social problems like poverty that both sides cared about, right. The problem is these groups tend to founder and fall apart. They often fall apart because of the politics of Birth Control. Because what you you know, on the outside, someone can say, well, where they could collaborate would be on Birth Control. We prochoicers dont see any
Tonight at 7 00, we continue q ancore presentations of with columnist gregg easterbrook. He discusses his book the king of sports. Here is a preview. Areoday most politicians oleaginous hacks what brought all that on . Congratulations knowing how to pronounce oleaginous. You are in a small minority. Football has become a cult and you see some evidence of this trade i present it in the book. Coaches have become revered figures in American Life and in some cases justifiably. If all men were like tony dungy the world would be a better place. But coaches have become substitute father figures in american society. We dont believe in politicians anymore, businessmen, clergy. Coaches still seem like people who practice tough love, like a good father would be, and it has a lot to do with their high standing in society. See our discussion with Greg Easterbrook today at 7 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Clock, highlights from our original history series first ladies. Tonight come a 20th century first