The Family Legacy of Henry Clay
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) on their “2011 LCV Cities Tour” were in Frankfort, Kentucky, on March 28-31 and August 1-3, 2011, to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Frankfort Plant Board local cable affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2.
Speaker of the House of Representatives and Secretary of State Henry Clay (1777-1852) was known as the “Great Compromiser” who forestalled the Civil War.… read more
Speaker of the House of Representatives and Secretary of State Henry Clay (1777-1852) was known as the “Great Compromiser” who forestalled the Civil War. Lindsey Apple talked about his family background and how his legacy shaped future generations of the Clay family. Lindsey Apple is the author of The Family Legacy of Henry Clay: In the Shadow of a Kentucky Patriarch. He was interviewed at Ashland: The Henry Clay Estate, in Lexington.
C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) on their “2011 LCV Cities Tour” were in Frankfort, Kentucky, on March 28-31 and August 1-3, 2011, to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Frankfort Plant Board local cable affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. close