catherine mcauley publishes an eight-volume history of england. and are political thinkers, they are political actors. interestingly, they are talking about a document that does not really consider them. this is extraordinary. they are not household names, like you said, they are not. they ought to be. i think it is part of the reason why we selected this document, but also to say that she talks to people who have political disagreements from her own. and she corresponds with federalists. adamsds up upsetting john because she does not paint him very sympathetically in her history of the american revolution. but it is significant that he cares what she says. it is significant that her opinion, narrative, any kind of emotional response, or response , and i don't feel like we could move off that document without making note of how extraordinary that is, especially given how long women would wait for the right to vote and on issues of equality that persist to this day. to have female voices and strong and influential female voices at the founding is s

history of the american revolution, i think actually the first published three volume .istory and catherine mcauley publishes and eight volume history of england. and they are political thinkers and actors. interestingly, they are talking about a document that doesn't really consider them. this is extraordinary. they are not household names, just like you said here they are not, and they ought to be. i think it's part of the reason why we selected this document, but also to say that she talks to people who have political disagreements from her own. announcer: you can watch this and other american history programs on our website, where all video is archived. that's c-span.org/history. announcer: retired fbi agent william moseley spent two decades investigating and prosecuting organized crime pictures -- figures in kansas city. he's the author of "mobsters in our midst: the kansas city crime family." next on american history tv, the former fbi agent sits down with kansas city public broadcasting editor for an illustrated look at the city's gangland past, and archives of the police reports, mugshots,