“John Quincy Adams Pimped for the Tsar!” Political Rhetoric in 19th-Century America

Think America’s political discourse is nastier than it’s ever been? Think again. According to History Prof. John Majewski, the political scene now is downright genteel compared to what it was like in the days when America was young. Come hear what politicos said about each other in that era when Prof. Majewski speaks on “Political Rhetoric in Nineteenth-Century America.”
We will meet at noon in the banquet room of Marmalade Restaurant in the La Cumbre Shopping Center (directly across the parking lot from Vons). A buffet lunch of sandwiches and salads will be served prior to Prof. Majewski’s talk.

Our speaker, UCSB History department Chair John Majewski, is a 19th-Century U.S. historian who specializes in Civil War and economic history. He is the author, most recently, of Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Imagination of the Confederate Nation (UNC Press, 2009).

Sponsored by the UCSB History Associates. Please RSVP.
The cost is $22 for members, $25 for non-members.

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