What artifacts reveal about americas past. Historys bookshelf. The presidency, looking at the policies and legacies of our commanders in chief. And our new series, reel america, featuring archival government and educational films. Cable 3, created by the and tv industry and funded by her local cable or satellite tv provider. Watch us on tv, follow us on facebook. August 29th marks the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. One of the five deadliest storms and u. S. History. Cspan coverage begins life monday at 10 00 a. M. Et. During an allday event featuring officials, authors and community leaders. That evening at 8 00, more from poets, activists and others. 9 30, a 2005 house hearing featuring new orleans citizens describing their experiences before and after. They told us they would take us to shelters where we could get help and get the seniors to help. They loaded us up on these military trucks, then they declare the city of new orleans, Orleans Parish and Jefferson Parish a war zone. It still didnt sink in that we were the prisoners of war. 8 00 dnesday night at you cannot describe it. That is her whole life gone. Completely. Nothing but rubble. Not just her house but your whole community. All of your friends, family everybody is gone. You do, one year later, not see your family and friends that you used to see. A hell of a feeling. You dont forget it. You will never forget it the rest of your life. 2005llowed at 9 00 with a town hall meeting with then mayor ray nagin. I am relying on you. State level, federal level and all other levels. I dont have them. I voted for you. To represent me on a local level. I dont know where else to go. I dont know what else to do. Thursday night, starting at 8 00, more from the atlantic conference with femas craig fugate. At 9 00, we will show you president obamas trip to the region. Hurricane katrina anniversary coverage all this week on cspan. Week, American History tv sits in on a lecture with one of the Nations College professors. You can watch it here every saturday, and sundays at 1 00 p. M. Next, university of maryland professor robyn muncy analyzes women in the period after world war ii, focusing on their experiences in the workforce. She argues they did not leave the workforce as popularly believed, but that they were forced out of the higherpaying positions into lower paying jobs. This took place in the university of maryland at college park. We will go ahead and get started. I am thrilled to see you. Today we will begin our analysis of american womens lives in the period after more to. We will after world war ii. Andill route that summary the arguments in the summary of the video you heard thursday, and then we will zero inf on womens experiences in the labor market after the the most important task today is to dispel the notion that american women went home after world war ii. American women workers did not go home after world war ii and we are going to do our best through the next 50 minutes to wipe that notion out of our minds. Primary goal. If we can accomplish that we have done a lot. Before we dive into the arguments, i want to do a Free Association exercise. What this is going to involve is having you close your eyes, relax for a second, and then im going to speak a phrase. And i want to see what images waft into your minds eye. What images pop up . The phrase is american women in the 1950. American women in the 1950s. Do any images come into your mind in association with that phrase . Would you share . June cleaver. Great. We will come back to that area . Housewives. Anybody else . Anybody else have a different picture. How many of you thought of housewives, suburbia . I think it is the most when
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