In this issue: Author Mary Llewellyn McNeil on The Extraordinary Life of Journalist Wallace Carroll; Author Debra Bruno and A Hudson Valley Reckoning; Author Katherine Carter and Churchill's Citadel; Eleanor Roosevelt's Red Cross Uniform; 1924: A Year of New Beginnings; Black Women in the Wartime Struggle.
Author Mary Llewellyn McNeil discusses the Extraordinary Life of Journalist Wallace Carroll. Carroll was deputy director of the Office of War Information, news editor of the Washington Bureau of the New York Times, and finally editor and publisher of the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel.
Mary Llewellyn McNeil is a former editor and writer for Congressional Quarterly and primary author of Environment and Health, Reagan's First Year, and The Nuclear Age. She has worked as an editor at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Academy of Sciences and as a journalist at the Winston-Salem Journal.
Conversation and Book Signing
A Hudson Valley Reckoning: Discovering the Forgotten History of Slaveholding in My Dutch American Family
with Debra Bruno
Wednesday, November 13
6pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Free public event. Registration is required. CLICK HEREto register.
AHudson Valley Reckoning tells the long-ignored story of slavery's history in upstate New York as Debra Bruno uncovers her Dutch ancestors' slave-holding past and finds a deep connection with the descendants of the enslaved people her family owned.
Conversation and Book Signing
Churchill's Citadel: Chartwell and the Gatherings Before the Storm
with Katherine Carter
Tuesday, November 19
6pm ET
Henry A. Wallace Center
Free public event. Registration is required. CLICK HEREto register.
In the 1930s, Winston Churchill found himself out of government and with little power. In these years, Chartwell, his country home in Kent, became the headquarters of his campaign against Nazi Germany. He invited trusted advisors and informants, including Albert Einstein and T. E. Lawrence, to strengthen his hand as he worked to sound the alarm at the prospect of war.
Eleanor Roosevelt was often on the move during World War II conducting inspection tours at home and overseas trips to demonstrate American support for other Allied nations. Her most ambitious and dangerous foreign trip was a 25,000 mile tour of the South Pacific in 1943 as a representative of the American Red Cross. She wore this uniform during that trip.
(Originally broadcast June 24, 2020; 13:39 minutes)
1924 does not resonate the way 1933, or 1941 does when thinking of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. It was, however, a year filled with encounters that would profoundly change both. 1924 was the year in which Franklin Roosevelt returned to the public stage in politics after polio. It was the year he first visited Warm Springs. 1924 was also the year in which Eleanor Roosevelt began to imagine life at a place we know as Val-Kill.
Black women were on the frontlines of civil rights activism during the war years. The grassroots organizing work of young leaders like Rosa Parks, Juanita Jackson, and Ella Baker helped fuel a dramatic increase in NAACP membership and branch activism.
"Whatever our individual circumstances or opportunities, we are all in it, and our spirit is good... and do not let anyone tell you anything different." FDR, Oct 12, 1942, fireside chat.
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