congressman at the time and no fan of tyler, he was a whig and president. tyler had thrown the whig party into disarray because he kept vetoing all of their legislation. and john quincy adams, quote, as he was fairly nauseated by their marriage and he called it the old fable of january and may because he was disgruntled by their 30 year age difference, with tyler being 54 and julia being only 24. next slide, please. so the annexation of texas became president. tyler's main focus. and as this slide shows how he thought it might be, he might be able to use this issue to win a presidential term in his own right in 1844. however, it wasn't to be because right before he married julia, the treaty, his administration was working on to bring texas into the union failed in the senate so that went by the wayside. but he married her right at that time. and next slide, please. so let me give you a little background on tyler's first wife, leticia just suffered a series of strokes before he became president and she actually died on september 10th, 1842. so all that time

congressman at the time and no fan of tyler, he was a whig and president. tyler had thrown the whig party into disarray because he kept vetoing all of their legislation. and john quincy adams, quote, as he was fairly nauseated by their marriage and he called it the old fable of january and may because he was disgruntled by their 30 year age difference, with tyler being 54 and julia being only 24. next slide, please. so the annexation of texas became president. tyler's main focus. and as this slide shows how he thought it might be, he might be able to use this issue to win a presidential term in his own right in 1844. however, it wasn't to be because right before he married julia, the treaty, his administration was working on to bring texas into the union failed in the senate so that went by the wayside. but he married her right at that time. and next slide, please. so let me give you a little background on tyler's first wife, leticia just suffered a series of strokes before he became president and she actually died on september 10th, 1842. so all that time

the week now these games we get just little snippets there through the knoxville whig this is parson brown those paper he's more interested in political baseball is a novelty is interesting and my gosh who are these guys who want to be idle lazy on the weekends when they should be in church playing baseball and so little information but what we do get is during that first game in 1867, it was attended by hundreds of spectator ers, both men and women. and women play a part as spectators in this game. and it was believed by women being on the ball field that they would calm the men and that they would not get out of hand, not get competitive. and remember that they are gentlemen, first and foremost during that game, a brass band led the procession of these two teams, the knoxville knoxville's and the holsteins, to the knoxville baseball grounds. and it is said by dow that they won that first game by 17. i can't confirm it from another source, but it does hold true that the knoxville prevailed in that first game and immediately was issued the next week for a game and that game the hosts

so this is the first notice published the knoxville whig on march 20th that a baseball meetinoccurred the night before. here's a photograph of downtown knoxville is sam dow on the right at about approximately 1867. this image has always been published in 1869. use the signs it use the city directories and newspapers. you can find out that this picture is actually than 1869. it's somewhere the late summer of 1867 sorry, late summer of 1866 and the spring 1867. so we're right in that period of baseball being organized if you see the red arrow, it's pointing at star billiards, which was located in ramsey hall just underneath slide photographer tim slayer's gallery. it was here that night. the dow organized that meeting and. it was just as dallas said approximately mostly men who had shown up union soldiers. now in this meeting, dow organize it and again down on the right, he will be elected the captain of this club, the gentleman on the far left is spencer munson, and there he is. and his union uniform, spencer munson from mentor, ohio. and for a brief period of time later in his life, h

i point boston's leading whig newspaper, the boston gazette. when the stamp act was passed eight years ago in 1765. replaced the sign of the king on the front page of my paper with the skull and crossbones to protest the tax. my paper speaks for the patriot cause every day i host good americans like samuel adams and james otis and their meetings in my print shop. that tax on my tea may be only three pences right now? but what's stopping the king from raising it to $0.04? £4? £10 without without a representative in parliament? these taxes will continue to go up for. speaker to my left on the floor. i am abigail adams. my husband. ma'am. miss adams has the floor. hey. to often forget the struggles of women men. men like dr. warren and mr. savage have talked about the great a great deal about english liberties and what their rights are in of parliament. but what are the english liberties to me. only men get to participate in our politics. but women also live politics. we live it every day by spinning our clubhouse and by participate in boycotts on

i point boston's leading whig newspaper, the boston gazette. when the stamp act was passed eight years ago in 1765. replaced the sign of the king on the front page of my paper with the skull and crossbones to protest the tax. my paper speaks for the patriot cause every day i host good americans like samuel adams and james otis and their meetings in my print shop. that tax on my tea may be only three pences right now? but what's stopping the king from raising it to $0.04? £4? £10 without without a representative in parliament? these taxes will continue to go up for. speaker to my left on the floor. i am abigail adams. my husband. ma'am. miss adams has the floor. hey. to often forget the struggles of women men. men like dr. warren and mr. savage have talked about the great a great deal about english liberties and what their rights are in of parliament. but what are the english liberties to me. only men get to participate in our politics. but women also live politics. we live it every day by spinning our clubhouse and by participate in boycotts on

the conservative who exalts the british constitution, jefferson is a whig who reads cato's letters and sees hume as of honeyed tory ism. so his conception of states rights and limited power is derived from the whigs and hamilton with nationalism, from hume. but what all of these people share both the enlightenment, the classic folks, is a devotion, what we would call now, the liberal idea, limited government, the need for individual self-mastery, that the core of virtue. and it all comes from readings. it is really exciting to see the american mind being distilled in this remarkable period of the 1760s and seventies from these kids who all went to around the same time. some were self taught someone to the great universities. they're reading their books and they're distilling the essence of american constitutionalism. that's fascinating. and you have a book coming on this subject this year. so this year preview when jeff first told you about this, i think we're in williamsburg. at the time i was blown away and very excited and i look to seeing that book. i will say my starter is pretty

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explain for those who are not history aficionados, a great senator and politician and the founder of the whig party, which for the early part of lincoln's political career was his party. in 1847, in the event that you mentioned, henry clay gave a speech against the u.s. war against mexico, which was thing going on. it was an antiwar speech about how it was a wrong war that was being fought for wrong principles and essentially as a land grab to grab some of mexico's land for the united states, which looking back on it today we can say that was essentially true. it was an antiwar speech and it seems likely to have influenced lincoln, who seems likely to have attended because he was in town at the time, because lincoln went off to congress then and gave an antiwar speech of his own and introduced an antiwar resolution. he was not a fan of that war. host: our guest mentioned mary todd lincoln. you devoted a whole chapter to lincoln's sometimes rocky home life with mary todd. can you talk about that relationship and how that showed up to write your book? guest: it was a difficult marriage and i sh

jackson whig party ticket in 1840 to form the other half of tippecanoe and tyler, too.ned on tippecanoe, too. william henry harrison dying after one month in office when he did. tyler faced a conundrum exactly what was his status? the constitution provided scant guidance. its interpretation was left to tyler, who never doubted for a moment he was president of the united states, not acting as president, but president with all the powers and prerogatives of the office. these included pursuing policies, including the annexation of texas and the veto of a national bank that were anathema to the party that nominated him. a mistake it had no intention of repeating. in 1844. vastly greater was the damage. indeed, it could be argued damaged that we are still recovering from. that resulted from the selection 20 years later of andrew johnson, a tennessean of pro-union sympathies whose presence on the ticket the union party ticket was thought to strengthen abraham lincoln's appeal to war. democrats. with lincoln's assassination in april 1865, everything won on the battlefield thro

the richmond whig lamented the bragg's move into kentucky, quote, turned out simply to be a fizzle. while the memphis appeal commented, the retreat was a sad finale to a campaign which had been expected to bring about the redemption of kentucky. quote of what good results are such victories productive if straight away we must relinquish the state to the occupancy in possession of the enemy to lose kentucky, a neutral border state was one thing to lose tennessee. on the heels of the kentucky blow would be another matter. all together and a trio of highlights theren e screen talk about these gentlemen in a second. as all eyes turn toward 1863, criticism of bragg and the complaints voiced by the commander's subordinates started to raise questions in jefferson davis's mind about bragg's suitability for command. on october 23rd, the war department summoned bragg to richmond to give an account of the campaign, and bragg's great antagonist lay it as polk also gets summoned to richmond. so you have two guys that really don't get along. reporting into jefferson davis, polk says the bragg has

explain for those who are not history aficionados, a great senator and politician and the founder of the whig, which for the early part of lincoln's political career was his party. in 1847, in the event that you mentioned, henry clay gave a speech against the u.s. war against mexico, which was thing going on. it was an antiwar speech about how it was a wrong war that was being fought for wrong principles and essentially as a land grab to grab some of mexico's land for the united states, which looking back on it today we can say that was essentially true. it was an antiwar speech and it seems likely to have influenced lincoln, who seems likely to have attended because he was in town at the time, because lincoln went off to congress then and gave an antiwar speech of his own and introduced an antiwar resolution. he was not a fan of that war. host: our guest mentioned mary todd lincoln. you devoted a whole chapter to lincoln's sometimes rocky home life with mary todd. can you talk about that relationship and how that showed up to write your book? guest: it was a difficult marriage and i should b

won in the third and final game to claim the series to be the state champions and browns knoxville whig gave them three cheers. i mentioned the 90-25 game, the holstons were riding high in 1867. and then they got too big for their trousers and they sent a challenge to the gate city club of atlanta, also a gentleman club, much like these amateur era baseball teams, undefeated. a traveling team. i called them the forerunners of the cincinnati red stockings. although the cincinnati red stockings become professional, this is the last hurrah of amateur great teams. the gate city club said we will come up to knoxville and play you guys thanksgiving day, newspaperman, colonel john fleming, baseball was very important for boosting the game. he said the e reputation of the city is at stake grade on thanks giving day we expect an exciting game. we are not saying that is a proper way to pay respect to the national holiday to play baseball. that the boys think so thus give thanks. this game was a fiercely fought contest back and forth inning to inning, reports are betting was occurring during the g

he was a virginia and a democrat who joined the anti- jackson a whig party ticket in 1840 to form thether half of tippecanoe and tyler too. no one plans william henry harrison dying after one month in office. he did he faced a conundrum. exactly what was his status. scant guidance its interpretation never doubted for a moment he was the president of the united states not acting president but president with all the power and prerogatives of thee office. these included pursuing policies including the annexation of texas the veto of a national bank the parties that nominated him. he had no intention of repeating. could be argued damage we are still recovering from that resulted from the selection 20 years later of andrew johnson. a tennessean of prounion sympathies whose presence on the ticket union party ticket was thought to strengthen abraham lincoln's appeal toward the democrats. with lincoln's assassination everything one on the battlefield to northern heroics was suddenly brutally put at risk. slavery may have end of the 13th amendment for johnson's apologetic of white supremacy li

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what used to be called whig ism and the more science you learn, the more you realize it doesn't havescience isn't a religion substitute any more than religion is a science substitute, though doing different are doing different things and you let each of them to think they do best because both of them allow humanss to come clor to whatever that is we call truth and if it sounds profound, i am stealing it from pope john paul ii. [laughter] the rise to truth is faith and reason. >> does the vatican observatory methodically and together talking about finding out the conversation to sit in, contribute? you know five signs on your own. i think the end of the day the people who can be faith filled without being a member of the church remindd me of those e-mails full of capital letters how they discovered einstein was wrong and that got truth and help them get their book published, that's how it works, we are a community of people and how do we communicate?t telling our stories so goes back toti storytelling. >> when did you teach in kenya? ... n the peace corps or something equivalent. toug

what used to be called whig ism and the more science you learn, the more you realize it doesn't haveed. science isn't a religion substitute any more than religion is a science substitute, though doing different things. and you've got to let each of them do the thing they do best because, both of them allow us human beings to then come closer to whatever that thing is that we truth. and if that sounds profound, it's i'm stealing it from pope john paul the. second, who talked about how the you know the rise to truth is is on the wings of faith and reason good source yeah. hi. good afternoon guy does the vatican observatory network with the observatory in halley school to see how the satellites are impacting the earth around us we are an integral part of the community of scientists. so not just that observatory, every observatory we have our own telescope. yes. because it's nice to have a telescope to try out ideas that might not be able to get telescope time from somebody to try out. but we can apply for time with other telescopes. and i'm the vice president of the meteor critical soci

explain for those who are not history aficionados, a great senator and politician and the founder of the whigrty, which for the early part of lincoln's political career was his party. in 1847, in the event that you mentioned, henry clay gave a speech against the u.s. war against mexico, which was thing going on. it was an antiwar speech about how it was a wrong war that was being fought for wrong principles and essentially as a land grab to grab some of mexico's land for the united states, which looking back on it today we can say that was essentially true. it was an antiwar speech and it seems likely to have influenced lincoln, who seems likely to have attended because he was in town at the time, because lincoln went off to congress then and gave an antiwar speech of his own and introduced an antiwar resolution. he was not a fan of that war. host: our guest mentioned mary todd lincoln. you devoted a whole chapter to lincoln's sometimes rocky home life with mary todd. can you talk about that relationship and how that showed up to write your book? guest: it was a difficult marriage and i shoul

love, wiki my love, so that you are not seen, so that you are not noticed, do not fall to the ground, whigsery much, megetidze, how did you feel during the live performance? it’s unusual, because we usually perform to a soundtrack, and yes, what a feeling, what an additional feeling, the music will be felt more and this makes you want it even more. dance, well, it seems to me that for the site it would be such an experiment, dance to live singing, yes, especially when the song carries a certain meaning, a clear idea, some parts of your choreography were clear to me, because after all, the word choreography is, yes, it’s when we write by dancing, yes, we write history with our body, some you still need to formulate it, right? in what is very important , for me, at least, when there is the integrity of a work of art, so in many ways you succeeded, but there must also be a search, thank you, for me this is something natural, this is some kind of birth nature, something, probably solitude and nature, here such detachment probably gives rise to a certain plasticity, for me there is even some kin