elizabeth munro and louisa catherine adams -- sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series "arts ladies: influence an image," examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of her's lady and their influence on the presidency, for martha washington to michelle obama. sundays at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >> each week american history tv real america brings archival films that help to tell the story of the 20 century. ♪ >> throughout the world, throngs of people held -- held the war of the end in europe. it has been five years and more since hitler marched into poland years of suffering and death had been sacrificed. now the war against germany is one. -- won. a grateful nation gives thanks for victory. hundreds of thousands crowded to american churches to give thanks to god. ♪ >> president sherman announced the official surrender. >> this is a solemn but glorious hour. i wish that franklin d roosevelt had lived to see this day. general eisenhower and thorns be met the forces of germany

we will look into the lives of elizabeth munro, breaking the social edition of making calls to washington's political society. they gained a reputation for being queenly by her critics. she played an important role in her husband's 1824 presidential campaign and yet had difficulty winning the approval. sunday night at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series. from martha washington to michelle obama, sundays at 8 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. here are a few of the book festivals we will be covering on c-span's book tv. we will visit maryland for live coverage of the gaithersburg book festival with tom davis as well as former senior adviser david axelrod. we will close out may at book expo, where the publishing industry showcases their upcoming books. in the first week of june we are live for the chicago tribune including our three hour program, including lawrence wright and your phone calls. in his weekly address president obama honors the 70th anniversary of the e day by commemorating the allied victory and those who serve in europe during world war ii. tom mcclintock o

next, elizabeth munro and lisa catherine adams. this is about 90 minutes. >> elizabeth monroe was a true partner in her husband's career. they were a love story and absolutely devoted to each other. elizabeth monroe had a well-develop

elizabeth munroe broke the tradition of making social call to rich she spoke french inside the whiteouse and gained a reputation for being queenly. louisa adams was the first born outside the u.s. to date. she had difficulty winning the approval of her mother-in-law, abigail adams. sunday night at 8:00 p.m.. examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the position of first lady. from martha washington duchenne mel -- martha washington to michelle obama. on c-span. >> air special mother's day presentation begins with the great-granddaughter of herbert and lou hoover and the daughter of gerald and betty ford. this is part of a discussion that took place in the ford presidential library. it is just under one hour. >> good evening everyone. thank you for being here. it is always a pleasure to be here. if what just happened back there in the last 10 minutes, this is going to be a lot of fun tonight. we are going to be talking about three enormously different and enormously important first ladies. enormously different and important first ladies that span a large part of

next, elizabeth munro and lisa catherine adams. this is about 90 minutes. >> elizabeth monroe was a true partner in her husband's career. they were a love story and absolutely devoted to each other. elizabeth monroe had a well-developed sense of style and image. this is a woman who knew how to carry herself with great elegance. she always warranted your respect. >> it was one of the most splendid white houses that ever existed. it is called the era of good feeling. >> this is a woman who spoke french. my goodness, what she could talk about. >> elizabeth was a beauty. she received is seldom anything in the white house. she hated it. >> dignity, civility. those are the words that come to mind. >> elizabeth monroe served as first lady from 1817 to 1825 as a time known as the era of good feeling. coming up, we will explore her life and what were not always happy times inside the white house for this woman born into a well-to-do new york family. she married james monroe at the age of 17 and traveled new york extensively with him. she bro

ladies, interesting first ladies in this category including louisa catherine adams and elizabeth elizabeth munro and in the great story of item mckinley and others that i have to do that author thing and say you have to look in the book as we are running out of time. we have got to move on. first ladies have taken advantage of their position. this fabulous opportunity they have to make change by adopting causes. how recent a phenomenon is that where person with great anticipation wonders in the white house what is the cause going to be that the first lady will adopt and it's expected they will announce it. how much politics and political consideration goes into that decision in this modern-day? >> quite a bit. you know as the president is going from a candidate to president and has a transition team and is building its first ladies are also doing that and michelle obama has talked about being back in her kitchen in chicago and thinking about planting a garden at the white house and developing this idea for how she would approach this topic of healthy eating and really pushing back against childh

"how involved in politics was elizabeth munro? how might she have viewed the monroe doctrine?"smith: i'm sorry, i don't mean to -- for years, you know, there's people who said that it's really john quincy adams who wrote it, but i think it's safe to say elizabeth didn't write it or whatever. preston: but just about everybody else has gotten credit for it. smith: well, she - it's interesting. monroe did say at one point -- there's a letter where simply he refers to her as his partner in all things. and one senses, although there's an unfortunate lack of documentation that that would include sharing his political secrets with her. but i don't think of her as a - certainly in a modern sense, as a political figure. preston: but she was certainly aware of what he was doing. she - we don't have - we only have one letter that she wrote but there are letters of her handwriting that she copied for him, he either made copies to send to others or to keep. so, so, she was certainly aware of what was happening in the political war. and they were together for so long and they were so close t