Senate in 1919 and ratified in 1920. Here we are 100 years later. The 116th congress has the highest the percentage of women making up roughly a quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speaker for the second time. And we have four women so far running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women and the key turning points for women in american politics. I want to introduce our panelists and then well come back through and have each of them talk about the books or the period of time they are writing about for about five minutes. And then well open up the conversation to all of you. So when we get to that point for questions, id like each of you to go to the microphone, line up behind the microphone to ask your questions. So let me introduce you to david perry, working at the university of minnesota. Hes a descendant of elizabeth. She was a historian and wrote a boom about book about feminism politics. David helped publish his mothers final book after the vote.
Women yielding political power. Im with cspan, American History on tv on cspan 3 every weekend is happy to coordinate with the organization of american historians to moderate this panel discussion. And of course it could not come at a better moment in history with the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote passed by the house u. S. And u. S. Senate in 1919 and then ratified in 1920. Here we are a hundred years later, the 116th congress has the highest percentage of women ever making up a roughly quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speakr for the second time, and we have four women so far running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women and the key turning points of women in american politics. I want to introduce each of our panelists and come back through and have each of them talk about their books or the period of time theyre writing about for about five minutes and then well open up the conversation to all of you. So let me introduce you t
Of the podcast, democracy in color. Thanks, steve, for joining us. Thanks for having me on. And david daley, the upcoming book, unrigged. Thanks for joining us, david. Pleasure to be here. Hi, everybody. My names rebecca nagel, im a journalist and host of a podcast, this land, and im really, really excited to be digging into this conversation over next hour the next hour because i think it is more important now than ever. I think, you know, in this moment of a Global Pandemic, we are seeing the systemic failures of our government right now. You know, sort of all of the cracks in the system that were already existing are more apparent than ever, and i think a lot of us have our eyes on this upcoming election and if that election going to be a solution or make the problem worse. So, steve, ill direct the first question to you, you know, with a lot of democrats [audio difficulty] singular focus on beating donald trump in november, theres a lot of debate about whether or not those efforts
Zero my gosh. I am so excited to be here. She cant outdo me in excitement. This is a woman. It was super good. Im foremost an activist im a rape survivor and im just so thrilled to be here. Im not here today without you. I did not expect that. A little housekeeping thing. Im so glad to welcome you all to the book club. For this evenings perp performance. For those of you who are using cart please turn off the sound on your mobile device and for all others please turn off all electronic devices. The first time i saw you in person. It was at the 2,017th i remember feeling scared. Afterwards there is a hush silence of all. At that moment i didnt feel nervous anymore. I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart is so hard to be what you cant see and you showed us what it was like to be fighting for decades in the arena and because of you we all arent nervous anymore. Thank you. Thank you so much. I have to say i still get nervous. I do think we get strength from each other.
Recently on our Author Interview program after words, los angeles Time Supreme Court correspondent david savage interviewed Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino about the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett kavanaugh. Heres a portion of that program. A specific category where someone has no memory and then claims to have kind of developer one interview. Its not clear shes claiming that. What we know is she doesnt have anyone until therapy but this one the things and Rachel Mitchell processor, on one side to using these notes as evidence and as a lawyer if using these as evidence you would expect a court, if his legal situation the court would examine it. They want to use those as corroboration of her statement but refuse to produce them. It is significant come to see what the experts we spoke to talk to, have therapy went because theres no therapeutic techniques that could suggest memory or to manipulate the content of those memories so you could attach the wrong perso