so the beecher family really was an amazing group of reformers. harriet beecher stowe's father was the foremost calvinist minister in new england when she was a child. child. he raised all 11 of his children to be moral forces in society. they had to do good, a positive change within the appropriate spheres of course apply to the 19th century which meant that the four girls had to find other acceptable platforms to speak. harriet beecher stowe stows way of speaking was through writing and publishing stories. from the early 1830s and series of letters, at this point in her career she was writing short stories. she was the mother of five children at that point and she was struggling to make ends meet. her husband was a professor. a career that didn't pay that well so she had to take care of the household words and her children the best thing she could do was right. she knew she was good at it and so that's what she did the she decides to write a short story of four installments, four chapters, for newspaper called a national era. there's one of them

are in 19th century author harriet beecher stowe's home in connecticut. we invite you to visit and we are standing today in stowe's front parlor, the more formal space. when you visit here you sit down in this parlor and share conversation about issues and experiences. stowe was born harriet beecher and litchfield connecticut and western connecticut and her life she lived in boston cincinnati brunswick maine andover massachusetts and jena has been retired to be near her two sisters here in hartford connecticut. in hartford they had two houses. first of the middle of the civil war stowe boelter dream house, her glamorous mansion and they built that house moved in 1863 and lived there for about eight years and then discovered over those years that it was too expensive to maintain so they downsized into this more modest but still spacious hartford home where they lived out the rest of their lives. stowe moved into this fourth street house in hartford in 1873 in the house had been built on specs and lived in for a couple of years. she didn't specially build i

harriet beecher stowe's way of speaking was through writing and publishing stories. from the early 1830s in a series of letters, at this point in her career she was writing short stories. she was the mother of five children at that point and she, with struggling to make ends meet. her husband was a professor which wasn't a career that paid well. she needed to supplement and check to take care of the household words and her children. the best thing she could do was right. she knew she was good at it and that's what she did. she decides to write a short story of four installments, meaning four chapters, for a newspaper called "the national era." here's one right here. she begins to write about she quickly realizes that it's going to be a much longer story. so she needs to provide substance and documentation. she wants it, even though it's a novel, to be stated in reality. so she writes to formerly enslaved people like frederick douglass, and while she's writing materialization at the national air we have a letter dated july 9, 1851, where she states you may perhaps hav

of the famous beecher family, and he had revolted against his father, who was a proslavery democrat. herndon was also a prohibitionist and believed in temperance but also sometimes found drunk. he was a stalwart partisan whig and lincoln's all--around aide and he was also a radical. who would write to all the leading abolitionist around the country and had ongoing correspondence with people like ther to parker, the great apts slavery -- antislavery -- in boston. herndon worshiped lincoln, resented mary todd, who he called the hellcat. she would not allow him into their home. never allowed lincoln's partner into their home. herndon, after lincoln died, did an incredible thing. the rated the first oral history of the president. hi went around and systematically interviewed everybody in illinois who was alive and almost everyone was still alive who had known lincoln from his earliest days of arriving in new salem, and many historians have discounted that oral history because it depicts a lincoln that is not grand lincoln who was the martyr, the -- the man who had won the civil war, been

houses letters and books related to the novel "uncle tom's cabi cabin." >> here we are in the harriet beechere center archive vault, archive storage area is the home door archival and printed books collection, also photographs, pamphlets, any sort of work of art on paper as well, including broadsides posters of the 19th century.

environmental, or africa or other horrible mutations in beecher like zika. maybe that is the story. i don't know. but it is a fun experiment. [laughter] wine helps. [laughter] >> but then when you think about it it comes to this vision, more wine helps. >> i bet you several years ago in afghanistan and i would like to say i'm happy to be standing here for a debut stateside safe. i appreciate your service you are the unsung hero steve bechtel i have to take you for yours. [laughter] >> with the strategic tools of power, we generally go to military every time the military steps up. we did well easing the economic power with iran so what can we do better diplomatically? to not engage for the leaders? >> thank you very much for your service. that was one of the most dangerous frigid is beautiful parts of afghanistan. where we ought there together with the vehicle broke down? >> i was not there for that but you utilized. >> we've also become a bit. [laughter] to which probably is not allowed but the akio. [laughter] civic i hope we return to that to you. but this is a problem with the er

environmental, or africa or other horrible mutations in beecher like zika. maybe that is the story. i don't know. but it is a fun experiment. [laughter] wine helps. [laughter] >> but then when you think about it it comes to this vision, more wine helps. >> i bet you several years ago in afghanistan and i would like to say i'm happy to be standing here for a debut stateside safe. i appreciate your service you are the unsung hero steve bechtel i have to take you for yours. [laughter] >> with the strategic tools of power, we generally go to military every time the hi steve neck every time there is in international prices. n speemac what can we do better? speemac but do engaged with people. nmuch f speemac thank you very much for your service. n speemac the diplomatic enclave start castles. n it is their security officers. n speemac speemac it is rented out. n and then there is a cultural center. n my mother came down the steps it says you should work there one day based in paris okay there is. i will be in paris in my office with a typewriter and i will write to the next great novel .

pulitzerie prize-winning journalist author of 14 books including our dirty love affair with trash beecher couple years ago. he has appeared in the wall street journal the new york times and others recipient of the pen award his book called door-to-door the magnificent world ofin transportation official date is two days from now is brand new founder of 350. [applause] >> open with a memorable day in 2011 comedy remember this day when they closed the four '05 53 hours the first time since it opened in 1960 to the prediction was total disaster stay in your homes do not go out what happened? >> if did stop us over 53 hours but the great ironies to close all of those lanes improve traffic and pollution through southern california it was a great success but after it opened opened, the field of dreams phenomenon then more cars have come and one-year ban after that extra lane opened it to several minutes long beard to make that commutehe than before belonged or commute and 1.3 billion so there is a myth that it will get better for does put more money into more lanes over more cars has never worke

father paul edmondson made his way from washington to brooklyn to meet with the reverend henry ward beecher to plead with him and say if these were your daughters and the slave trading firm price and birch was bragging with taking mary and emily edmondson to north carolina to sell them as concubines, as fancy girls and paul edmondson makes his way to brooklyn and said how would you feel if they were your daughters that someone was bragging about selling as sex slaves. the edmondson sisters are redeemed, they're purchased and given their freedom, which is really a concept that i think we all should stop and think about what that meant, right, to be given your freedom as opposed to simply being able to possess yourself and possess your freedom. and the accounts of this convention in upstate new york describe how beautifully and powerfully the edmondson sisters spoke to the crowd and how it was their speeches and their songs that really moved the crowd to tears in their instances. we thought it was important to include them to really highlight the role of every day people and particularly ever

beecher stows aunt chloe. -- which resembled harriet owe's aunt chloe. , one contemporary newspaper suggested the statute of instead of having a mammy, it should be replaced by a white daddy, who could be sexually assaulting a black woman as mammy looks helplessly on. lands for the actual monument stoped outrage. lacks not only culminated, -- butks not only culminated, they organize petitions and letters to politicians. the letter was presented to the calvin coolidge. what name can we give mammy and her anonymous sisters in this of historical revisionism? we are not post-racial, but we in more significant -- more tune with color in status, more attuned to seeing multiple layers of meaning. we could remember a six-year-old , who wasd malvina bequeathed of her owner. inn the owner's wife died 1852, malvina went to live with ruth's daughter, living in rural georgia. she was illiterate. like most women of her generation, she struggled during , againstction incredible odds. in 1870, she appears with four children. she is working as a maid, a watch or woman, a farm worker. she left a hard life befo

was living in his house and we like to show people other sides of "uncle tom's cabin" that harriet beecher stowe was known for. they have like to let our visitors know that harriet has made a lasting impact and we want to make sure her story is not forgotten. >> stowe died in 1896. she was 85. she died in this house as her husband had before her and when she died this parlor were standing in the front parlor. her coffin was laid out here and this is where the wait lists of "the new york times" wrote this up. it was widely reported and she was so famous that many came to visit and give their respects. she was buried next to one of her children, two of her children who predeceased her and her husband in andover, massachusetts. where they had been living when their son henry died at 19. .. whatever i could stand by this and funny and i don't have to do this again. he am fine. well, i was wrong. people went abcly nuts for it. some people loved it. some people hated it and people were caring and even crazier. ask me. i am the mexican. so people called me on my bluff and started sending in quest

you mentioned harriet beecher stowe who is a popular kentucky figure. we read and study her, but lincoln and that relationship -- he's much more popular in the north and new england than he ever becomes in the south, particularly at the end of the civil war. >> lincoln in 1860 running on the northern ticket received i want to think five votes in his wife's home county. even his in-laws didn't vote for him. he received something like 1,000 votes in the entire country. to vote for lincoln in 1860 for kentucky ans was like voting for a communist. he didn't have any support here. kentucky to begin the war wanted union and slavery. when he decided by the middle of the war it was going to be a war against slavery finally, that turns many kentucky ans against the administration. and the state that was a union at the beginning wasn't that at the end. lincoln and his party are on the outs in kentucky for a long period of time. in the 20th century kentucky reclaims abraham lincoln with the building of the memorial to his birth place. so kentucky has reclaimed lin

the reduction of the glazing and lastly consideration of flipping the program such that the walkup beecherould be relocated to the west side of the building with a grudge on the right. thereby enabling potential overall height reduction. after viewing the updated plan summit on july 22 department has reevaluate the project conformity with the following clinical section 317 demolition calculations the class i ceqa determination. we take discretionary review and approve the project. this concludes my presentation. i'm available for questions. >> thank you. project sponsor, >> actually dr requester >> just for everyone's so you know, the second hearing dr requester and project onto each get 3 min. in public comments will be limited to 1 min. per person. >> these are for you. one for each of you. if you could turn on the overhead ? so, members of the planning commission, at the first hearing with clear directives from you as to how to proceed and we follow those instructions carefully. we reviewed your session transcribed much of the discussion and noted your requested changes. firstly, plan n

the reduction of the glazing and lastly consideration of flipping the program such that the walkup beecherould be relocated to the west side of the building with a grudge on the right. thereby enabling potential overall height reduction. after viewing the updated plan summit on july 22 department has reevaluate the project conformity with the following clinical section 317 demolition calculations the class i ceqa determination. we take discretionary review and approve the project. this concludes my presentation. i'm available for questions. >> thank you. project sponsor, >> actually dr requester >> just for everyone's so you know, the second hearing dr requester and project onto each get 3 min. in public comments will be limited to 1 min. per person. >> these are for you. one for each of you. if you could turn on the overhead ? so, members of the planning commission, at the first hearing with clear directives from you as to how to proceed and we follow those instructions carefully. we reviewed your session transcribed much of the discussion and noted your requested changes. firstly, plan n

the reduction of the glazing and lastly consideration of flipping the program such that the walkup beecherould be relocated to the west side of the building with a grudge on the right. thereby enabling potential overall height reduction. after viewing the updated plan summit on july 22 department has reevaluate the project conformity with the following clinical section 317 demolition calculations the class i ceqa determination. we take discretionary review and approve the project. this concludes my presentation. i'm available for questions. >> thank you. project sponsor, >> actually dr requester >> just for everyone's so you know, the second hearing dr requester and project onto each get 3 min. in public comments will be limited to 1 min. per person. >> these are for you. one for each of you. if you could turn on the overhead ? so, members of the planning commission, at the first hearing with clear directives from you as to how to proceed and we follow those instructions carefully. we reviewed your session transcribed much of the discussion and noted your requested changes. firstly, plan n

we visit the harriet beecher gowe on in connecticut and to anaheim, california >> if anything, this ideatereotype about mexicans not being in his generations of immigrants is overblown. we are different and mexico is across the border. we'll talk to freddie gray about his book. history -- and if you look at the cases that i have handled since the montgomery bus precut involving voter registration, involving employment, involving jury discrimination, all of those towardsnch committed the passage of the voting rights then to long> beach, california. >> speechwriters are incredibly >> gettingn terms of it down so it means something. on sunday at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span3, he will revisit some of the national service sites as a service celebrates its 100 anniversary this month. watch the cities tour today at 6:30 p.m. eastern on booktv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span3. workingan cities tour, with their cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. "washington journal" continues. host: joining us now is adam wollner with the nati