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abigail eventually prevailed, not surprisingly, and james was educated after abigail. the next first lady, to show any interest in civil rights and equality for african-americans was mary lincoln, who had come from a slaveholding family that some of her family fought for the south. but mary saw the horrors of slavery, and many of her family members did free their enslaved workers. mary seamstress elizabeth keckley was a free african american and she informed mary of the plight of many of the former enslaved workers who were fleeing to the north during the civil war and that they were living in poverty. they were starving. and mary personally gave hundreds of dollars of her own money to those individuals to keep them fed and clothed. and she also wrote letters on behalf of some of these freed slaves for government positions, including for elizabeth keckley. between the civil war and eleanor roosevelt, who really was the first lady who took so many stances on this issue, there was lucy hayes, who you just heard about in a recent op ed white house history happy hour. lizz
abigail eventually prevailed, not surprisingly, and james was educated after abigail. the next first lady, to show any interest in civil rights and equality for african-americans was mary lincoln, who had come from a slaveholding family that some of her family fought for the south. but mary saw the horrors of slavery, and many of her family members did free their enslaved workers. mary seamstress elizabeth keckley was a free african american and she informed mary of the plight of many of the...
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pleasure to be here to introduce you to abigail. i want to cover three basic things in this conversation. okay? okay. now you got. describe the problem that you write about in bad therapy. what is it? how got here. and maybe how we can get out. so what was the spark that? started this book and tell us a couple the most surprising things discovered. sure it's. it's great to be here. you know, i'm crazy about city journal and the manhattan institute. always a joy to write for them. and and, of course, to be here with one of my absolute heroes emily coffee. it's just a great. so thank you so book. they always sort of pair these things in the press, you know, and but the book in some ways is not very surprising. right? the book that anything that is power ful, any intervention that is powerful all that is efficacious can help. it can also necessarily harm. right. that's true of any intervention. now, how did i get to. so so that's the claim. the therapeutic interventions kids are getting. how did i get here? so with the last book, i too
pleasure to be here to introduce you to abigail. i want to cover three basic things in this conversation. okay? okay. now you got. describe the problem that you write about in bad therapy. what is it? how got here. and maybe how we can get out. so what was the spark that? started this book and tell us a couple the most surprising things discovered. sure it's. it's great to be here. you know, i'm crazy about city journal and the manhattan institute. always a joy to write for them. and and, of...
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there is a resemblance to abigail and there is. well, one of the treasures that is in this room is right here. what is this? this is the desk on which the treaty of paris was signed, which ended the american revolution. the american revolution? who signed it. well, if we look, we can see john adams. benjamin franklin and john jay. is that the original of paris that we're looking at? this is a copy. but the desk is real. the desk is the absolute that everyone sat and signed. now this desk was also used in a new miniseries. yes. executive produced by author stacy schiff. that's correct. and we were certainly interested in this series because it explores a life of benjamin franklin in paris right at the time that he became a diplomat and some extraordinary things brought france into the american revolution and allowed us a clear advantage. to get this desk over to paris. mm hmm. what. what did that entail? oh, it was extraordinary. with something like a national treasure. certainly, we. we the job very seriously. but we wanted so much
there is a resemblance to abigail and there is. well, one of the treasures that is in this room is right here. what is this? this is the desk on which the treaty of paris was signed, which ended the american revolution. the american revolution? who signed it. well, if we look, we can see john adams. benjamin franklin and john jay. is that the original of paris that we're looking at? this is a copy. but the desk is real. the desk is the absolute that everyone sat and signed. now this desk was...
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but she was very well like the adams abigail's family. he was a he was a of a pastor and he came from farmers. they didn't definitely father. her father was the pastor. and in fact, married the two. the mother didn't approve of him. there's really many cases like that. very few did they marry down? and i guess that's a sign of the perhaps of the ambition to start out with, because you can use a i mean, look at how many were helped by the wives making money. i mean, mrs. lbj's wife had all made all that money in the tv and the radio station, and he couldn't have, you know, he couldn't have run all those campaigns with them. and abigail took care of the farm and did different things to back his his career. anyway, that was the lesson there for all single people here on valentine's day. but thank you for that reminder. or did you have another day? i just wanted to follow up on what you just said, that they married up. did you find that even though there was some interest other than love, that many of the love even of those who married up, th
but she was very well like the adams abigail's family. he was a he was a of a pastor and he came from farmers. they didn't definitely father. her father was the pastor. and in fact, married the two. the mother didn't approve of him. there's really many cases like that. very few did they marry down? and i guess that's a sign of the perhaps of the ambition to start out with, because you can use a i mean, look at how many were helped by the wives making money. i mean, mrs. lbj's wife had all made...
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have abigail adams 1000 pieces of correspondence but we might not have had them at. her husband first of all been away not been away and then became famous because she's related to a famous person. she's not the only woman, although it would have been much because of the literacy the privilege and the leisure. none of that. but we've lost so much. we we erased native american languages, so we don't have of those. we don't have enough women's records. i'm so grateful for the original slave narratives that were written by survivors and collected by fisk university in the 1950s. continued by a wpa project in the thirties. and now you're continuing that legacy without building locks. if you all are printing out your emails. there's going to be no work for people like pam. oh, there'll be work. we'll anyone else on some of the some of the early origins. not even necessarily limited to the back and cargo. well we were when we were talking about this panel and i want to say, first of all, david rubenstein, you've done an amazing for civics education and archives and drawing
have abigail adams 1000 pieces of correspondence but we might not have had them at. her husband first of all been away not been away and then became famous because she's related to a famous person. she's not the only woman, although it would have been much because of the literacy the privilege and the leisure. none of that. but we've lost so much. we we erased native american languages, so we don't have of those. we don't have enough women's records. i'm so grateful for the original slave...