and lincoln and his secretary of state, william seward were very keen to this. right at that time seward sent a letter to the ambassador in london. he said, you let them know they are looking at a war of the world he called it, not a world war, that hadn't been coined. one of the earliest uses of this phrase, a war of the world if they try to come over here and get in the middle of this. and so those were the three factors, i'd say. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. [ applause ] as these folks know, you don't, we have a little memento, you can tell, see. they lost all respect for this. anyway, a little memento of your being here. we hope you come back. >> thank you very much. awesome. >> thank you. >> this is c-span3 with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week and every weekend 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our websites. you can join in the conversation on social media sites. all weekend, american history tv is joining our media com cable partner

what she might know regarding the personal relationship tie-in between justice hughes and the william seward family from auburn, new york? seward was lincoln's secretary of state, and also part of the reason i'm calling is i've been puzzling for some time. back in that era, as the speech by justice hughes was indicating, the anti-racists of the communities were the republicans, and that seems to have switched around the time of woodrow wilson's presidency. when he embraced w.e.b., i was curious to know what you know about that. >> i'm not as familiar with the relationship to seward, so i have to defer to others on that. there is an interesting story about hughes and race. he invited booker t. washington to an event, and it was a somewhat controversial invitation. he personally escorted him it to a table. hughes pretty much retained a fairly uniform position on race throughout his career, where he was in favor of at least greater equality. i'm not sure to what extent full e equality, but against the backdrop of this change you're pointing out where previously republicans had been much more in