Look at women and womens role in u. S. Agriculture. The title for the lecture today, on invisible woman, comes from a 1983 book, so ancient in your mind, by carolyn sachs. Sachs book was groundbreaking. She was one of the first to examine the contributions of women to u. S. Agriculture, and it was this book that helped launch work by sociologists and other social scientists and rural historians and so forth, to look at the contributions of women who had largely been invisible up to this time. This is a nod to that groundbreaking book. One of the Big Questions we have been asking in this class and posing since the first day we met is, why should we study women in agriculture . Why not just study agriculture . Why should we take a gender lens and think about the different roles . Why . Thats one of the Big Questions, right . What we have been arguing, what i have been arguing and what other scholars argue, is that why we want to study women in agriculture specifically, and why we want to
The House Judiciary Committee had already undertaken that and had established that the inquiry could really run very widely. It was not going to be limited to just a certain number of witnesses or certain number of days or even just to the monocle to the Monica Lewinsky question. Democrats fought to keep that from happening. But the rules were established. And the committee you know, because our memory is that in 2116 party line vote, the republicans were in control of the committee and they were the ones guiding it and moved pretty swiftly. And the house floor was ready to take it up under the Republican Leadership of the house at the time. Us, we remember so much drama. We literally went through three speakers within a couple of days. First the resignation of speaker Newt Gingrich. Bob livingston became the next in line. Then what happened . There was a scramble to figure out. One of Bob Livingstons allies try to talk him out of it. It was interesting because he had made the decision
Learn more about christmas traditions tonight on American History tv. John allen shares with young military academy studentss Lessons Learned about the duties of being an officer. Hes dressed as the importance of understanding military history, and respecting americas constitutional principles. This talk was part of the American Veteran Center Annual conference in we are indeed and again fortunate to see stars today, lots of them, 4 across each shoulder. We are privileged to have general john allen, United States marine corps retired, fourstar general, former commander of Nato International Security Assistance force in afghanistan. It is my great pleasure to general john allen, United States marine corps. [applause] got an ambush and already this morning. [laughter] cadet kim was going to introduce me. I think we have got all the introduction we need outoftheway. It is an honor to be with you and incredibly humbling to come in behind a couple tuskegee airmen. Be a bad asked. I am not s
Will come to the 34th annual book fair. I am dean of the Honors College here. We are delighted to be able to host this for you this year. And before we get started, there are a couple of people and organizations to thank. This their would not be possible. Ithout our sponsors please, give them a round of applause. Also, we are so fortunate to be a part of a community of people who care about book fairs, literacy, et cetera, we have so many friends of the fair in the audience today, so please give yourselves a round of applause. [cheers and applause] as customary, i ask that you please turn off your cell phone. Know that we will have a q a at the microphone. Please be brief and concise and also i hear the chuckle. I also we will have a signing area to the right of the elevator. Without any further due, this is a particularly special panel a because we have with us, one of the founders of the book fair mitch kaplin. Please give a round of applause. [cheers and applause] thank you. Youre w
We have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you heard from the scholars who are on the first panel. Once again, we have Miller Center people here. The Miller Center, one of its main fscs is the focus on studying the presidencies in depth, historical depth with objectivity. We are all on the business of doing stuff that in editorial cartoonists is not in the business of doing, which is reacting to events on a daytoday basis. Which pat oliphant did more than 10,000 times in his 60 plus years as a newspaper cartoonist. Whereas we all strive to be as objective as we can, the job of the editorial cartoonist and pat oliphant, as well as anybody who has ever done that, to provide, opinion and something to provoke discussion rather than aspire to settle discussion. The panel today, this afternoon, which will cover the president s from george bush. I dont use the h w. He was george bush when he was president. When John Quincy Adams became president , john adams did