{"id":907,"date":"2024-11-15T21:01:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-15T21:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.acsu.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/?page_id=907"},"modified":"2024-11-15T21:01:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-15T21:01:49","slug":"post-war-lyceum-and-chautauqua-speakers-in-america","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/post-war-lyceum-and-chautauqua-speakers-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Post War Lyceum and Chautauqua Speakers in America"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Susan B. Anthony<\/strong>&nbsp;(1820-1906) Reformer and women&#8217;s suffrage leader; organizer of Daughters of Temperance; Co-organizer of Women&#8217;s Loyal League; president (1892-1900) of the National American Suffrage Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>William Cullen Bryant<\/strong>&nbsp;(1794-1878) poet and journalist; lawyer; editor of New York Review and Antheneum Magazine; part owner and editor New York Evening Post; Leader of anti-slavery Free Soil movement; a founder of the Republican Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>George William Curtis<\/strong>&nbsp;(1824-1892) journalist and writer; published widely in Harper&#8217;s Monthly; editor in chief of Harper&#8217;s Weekly Magazine; &#8220;One of the most polished and popular of platform-orators in America&#8221; according to Thomas W. Herringshaw in 1888.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/strong>&nbsp;(1803-1882). American author, poet and philosopher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Edward Everett Hale<\/strong>&nbsp;(1822-1909), clergyman, writer, publisher; Chaplain of the Senate; American historian; author of &#8220;A man without a country.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Julia Ward Howe<\/strong>&nbsp;(1819-1910). Antislavery and women&#8217;s rights activist, Founder (1874) of &#8220;Mother&#8217;s Day&#8221; Author of Battle Hymn of the Republic, journalist and essayist, contributor to Boston Commonwealth; editor of Woman&#8217;s Journal; a founder of New England Women&#8217;s Club; president of the association for the advancement of women; president Boston Author&#8217;s Club; delegate to World&#8217;s Prison Reform Congress; founder The Women&#8217;s Peace Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bill Nye<\/strong>, born Edgar Wilson Nye (1850-1896) Humorist and journalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>James Whitcomb Riley<\/strong>&nbsp;(1849-1916) Poet, especially known for his Hoosier identification (Indiana) and his poems to children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Charles Sumner<\/strong>&nbsp;(1811-1874) Abolitionist, United States Senator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mark Twain<\/strong>&nbsp;(1835-1910) writer, humorist, journalist and lecturer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan B. Anthony&nbsp;(1820-1906) Reformer and women&#8217;s suffrage leader; organizer of Daughters of Temperance; Co-organizer of Women&#8217;s Loyal League; president (1892-1900) of the National American Suffrage Association. William Cullen Bryant&nbsp;(1794-1878) poet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":626,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-907","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/history-of-cds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}