this is always a part where i want to talk about julia ward howe. julia ward howe is the same woman who wrote the battle hymn of the republic in 1862, i have talked about her before, she begins to take on a much more public role during the civil war, especially through her writing. she is a brilliant thinker, her diaries are at harvard. she is -- she becomes involved in the american woman suffrage association because she really wants the vote. she is a much more moderate character than say elizabeth that elizabeth cady stanton. she wants the vote for this reason, her husband is abusive. every time she wants to leave him, he says great, go, you will never see your kids again. because in this era, children are the property of their fathers. if women divorce their husbands, they can be kept from their kids. she stays married and tries to continue to have access to the kids. the great part of this story is he is really awful to her, i read through her diaries, he is really awful to her and keeps trying to get her to destroy the diaries. he keeps telling