program. 1  Obs. a proclamation. a prospectus or syllabus. 2  the acts, speeches, musical pieces, etc. that make up an entertainment, ceremony, etc. a printed list of these. 3  a scheduled broadcast on radio or television. 4  a plan or procedure for dealing with some matter.
Trent Affair: 1861-1862. The Trent Affair was the diplomatic crisis that potentially brought Great Britain and the United States closest to war during the first year of the American Civil War.
While Treasury Secretary, Hamilton began his affair with Maria Reynolds, the sister-in-law of a minor New York Livingston. The author writes that ''Mrs. Reynolds was a whore, her husband was a pimp and both were blackmailers; Hamilton was a john and a gull.