graddy is currently working on political history exhibits that will be part of the museum's renovated west wing and continuing her research on the women's suffrage movement and women in american political life. she holds a b.a. in history from the university of maryland and an m.a. from texas tech university. following the presentations tonight we'll move to a moderated discussion format with a few prepared questions and then hopefully additional questions from the audience. please help me welcome dr. kyle ciani. [ applause ] >>> good evening. it's so nice to be here to get here on a plane ride that was a little bit treacherous, to survive earthquakes, to be here on the eve of reverend martin luther king, jr.'s statue to be dedicated is an honor and i thank paige and elizabeth and jennifer and all the friends at sewall-belmont for inviting me and thank you for coming out on this wet evening to enjoy some photographs of really important women who dealt with some really important issues. when i accepted paige's invitation, i had no idea this would also be the dedication week for the kin

graddy, let me switch to you. so you've talked a little bit about the original banners and what we know we have in all of the different collections. we do know, however, what we have in the sewall-belmont collection that we don't have a complete catalog unfortunately of all of the banners. could you offer any thoughts as to what specific content you think might be missing? obviously you've talked earlier about the fact that it was probably the pushier statements, because obviously those were insightful. as we see here in this slide, obviously there was violence against the women. but also of course they tore the banners. but perhaps you could speak a little bit about what you think content might be specifically missing as far as the strategies and tactics were concerned. >> i think we know from memoirs like inez irwin's memoir, because she'll tell you, god bless her, she'll tell you on this day this person's banner said this and this person's banner said. so we know that some of the more aggressive banners are mis

kyle ciani and lisa graddy. we're probably going to run into our time boundary pret stay pretty soon. if we have members of the audience who would like to ask questions to please take one side or the other and form a line. i'd like to start with a couple of questions specific to our speakers tonight and then turn it over to the questions from the audience. let me start with dr. ciani. "what reasons have you found for allender's shift from largely maternalist to militant images? >> i've got a slide. >> why don't you put it up? >> i think that this is a good time to have sort of a show and tell for just the sailor slide. >> there it is. >> one of the things that i noticed when i was looking at her work was that when she first began to draw, 1914, 1915, the images were very much invested in social work, social issues in terms of women and children. and by the time that the pickets began, certainly with the russian envoy and by 1917 her work becomes far more dramatic. and i think -- i mean, you can challenge me on t

. >> lisa kathleen graddy, thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> you can watch american artifacts and other american history tv programs any time by visiting our website. c-span.org/history. >>> the richard nixon presidential library convened a symposium titled "understanding richard nixon." this hour long discussion focuses on the president's economic and environmental policies and reviews the administration's civil rights record as well as the expansion of the white house staff and its authority during the nixon years. >> well, as one of the coordinator of this event, you know that -- and i say in all sincerity that i'm very glad to see you all here. so this is the panel that -- one of the panels i've really been looking forward to. the domestic panel. we've really got some amazing scholars who are some very interesting and understudied topics. starting with nigel bowles. georgetown university and oxford university. he's taught at the university of edinboro and university of oxford where he's been a lecturer since 1988. his books include "the white house and capitol hill," "nixon's

. >> lisa kathleen graddy, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> you can watch american artifacts and other american history tv programs any time by visiting our website, cspan.org/history. >>> the richard nixon presidential library convened a symposium called understanding richard nixon and his era. this hour long program focuses on the environmental and economics policy and the civil rights record and the expansion of the white house staff and its authority during the nixon years. >> well, as the coordinator of of this event and i say in all sin saincerity that i'm very gld to see you all here. this is one of the panels that i've really been looking forward to, the domestic panel. starting with nigel boll who was educated at georgetown university and oxford university, he's taught at the university of edinburgh and oxford where he's been a lexurer since 1988, his books include "the white house and capitol hill," "nixon's business authority and power in presidential politics" which won the richard e.nustead prize in 26. his current project which we're looking forward to is "the polit

. >> lisa kathleen graddy is the curator for political women's history here at the smithsonian. tell us where we're at. >> you're in the first ladies exhibit. welcome to the newest addition of the exhibit. by my count it's the nine version of the first lady's exhibit since it began in 1913. we're almost 100 years old. we're the longest lived exhibit at the smithsonian institution. >> and this iteration just opened up. tell us the concept behind it. >> we tried a few new things. the challenge of the first ladies exhibit is always to balance. to balance the great interest in the dresses and the china with other kinds of stories about the first ladies. we're always trying to find a way -- i say marry. but to marry the two things so that you get a fuller picture of the first ladies but still get to see the things you really want to see which are the beautiful dresses and the lovely china. so we tried a different arrangement in here. partially that's the color scheme. this is the first time we've used this palette of grays and whites. the idea was to make the objects stand out. we re

. >> lisa kathleen graddy is the curator at the smithsonian, tell us where we're at in the american history museum. >> it is the ninth version of the first ladies exhibit since it began in 1913. so, we're almost 100 years old and we're the longest lived exhibit at the smithsonian museum. >> this iteration just opened up, tell us the concept behind it. >> we tried to get new things here. the challenge is always to balance. to balance the great interest in the dresses and the china with other kinds of stories about the first ladies. we're always trying to find a way -- i hate to say mary because they love to talk about marrying the presidents and the first ladies exhibits, but to marry the two things, so you get a fuller picture of the first lady but still get to see the things you really want to come to see which are the beautiful dresses and the lovely china. so we tried a different arrangement in here and partially that's the color scheme. this is the first time that we've used this palette of grays and whites. and the idea was to really make the objection stand o stand out. the color come