Freedom to print things and publish things. It is not a freedom for what we now refer to institutionally as the press. Lectures in history, on American History tv on cspan 3. Every saturday, at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Lectures in history is also available as a podcast. Find it where you listen to podcasts. In 1848 a convention was held in seneca falls, new york to discuss the state of womens rights in the country. The gathering was seen by many as the beginning of the womans Suffrage Movement. However, it took until 1920, over 72 years later, for women to earn the right to vote. During those years organizations such as the National American womans Suffrage Association, and National Womans Party would form. Creating a national movement. Yet it was women in every community who led the effort in their towns and states to demand rights. Through the work of cspan cities tour well introduce you to some of these women who dedicated their lives to this cause. From a prosuffrage newspaper publisher
Of land with locations in every state. More than 325 Million People visited these sites last year. Over the next 90 minutes, well feature a mixture of Natural Beauty and history at eight different parks around the country. We begin outside of cleveland. Well learn how the canal plays a major role in western expansion. The ohio canal is part of a twocanal system that was put in place in the early years of america, built between 1825 and 1832. And basically its a water transportation route that connected lake erie with the ohio river which is part of a large idea, a National Water transportation route. In the early days of america, we had 13 colonies all situated along the atlantic seaboard. And our leaders at that time saw a problem. That problem was we needed that country to expand westward. However, there was a big obstacle. The appalachian mountains. Our first president , george washington, happened to be a canal engineer, had an idea. That idea was to create a transcontinental water
Edge election could potentially drag on for days or even longer with neither side willing to concede. So well be going to the u. S. Supreme court we want to. Voting just so youre prepared for any effort republicans make in any court and you key states to advance the absurd theory that the president as far as last night. I should check out our web site r t dot com for faster than light updates on anything and everything surrounding the u. S. Elections on behalf of the R T International team thanks for watching and we hope you have a great day. Hello and welcome the cross town where all things are considered on Peter Lavelle as expected ballots are still being counted but what we do know about this election that its close in the country is deeply divided what are some of the lessons to be learned was it enough to frame this election as a risk. Renda and donald trump. To discuss this and more im joined by my guest Christopher Metzler in washington he is a legal scholar in monterey we have
Person, vis person, if you wish to vote in person, visit the bill graham center. You can avoid lines and save time by preparing your ballots in advance and going to the polling place during offpeak hours. If youre planning on filling out your ballot at the voting center, consider bringing some wipes to clean surfaces and Hand Sanitizer to use after you vote. For those who are planning to vote on election day, consider going to your polling place at offpeak time dos, such as midmorning, because it might reduce wait time. And finally, once you get home, wash your hands. Heres a quick recap. And thats it for this episode. For. Mayor breed good morning, everyone. Im San Francisco mayor, london breed, and i want to thank you for being with us today, to provide an update on covid and the election and halloween in San Francisco. We have 12,320 cases of covid total since this crisis began. 37 hospitalizations, 147 people have sadly lost their lives. San francisco has really stepped up its pace
Counting their votes and there was what was called a red mirage predicted and all that said i would say from a democrats point of view of the fact that its even plausible that trump would be reelected i think means were still in the same crisis of division that we were before no matter how this comes out ok were going to pressure i mean isnt it a crisis of the Democratic Party as well i think you know theres a lot of blame to be shared around here go ahead chris yeah i indeed i believe that there is i mean from our perspective you know from the very beginning this whole idea of the low out just didnt make all mosques sense and i think democrats ban on lot of time i think in my dreams out of florida was never going to go out to democrats and they spent a whole lot of time texas seriously i mean it was just and i think they could have spent better time in. Basis that actually matters and that thats where we find ourselves at this late hour. Cramming and it wasnt supposed to be this way h