San antonio is here because of these missions. What is really wonderful is that a lot of people who called us here canme and come trace their ancestry to the colonial period, the people who build these mission buildings and who built these churches are the missions are about the start of the city of san antonio. The entrance. This is a part of San Antonio Missions National Historic park. This is a unit of the National Park service. There are more than 400 National Park sites around the country. 419 help to tell some part of the american story, the part of the american story that we tell here at the San Antonio Mission is the Spanish Colonial history of this area of this part of the world. Mission san jose is one of formations that make up the National Park. Fourark is comprised of missions. We have a model of this mission, mission san jose. Shows themodel that , the exterior walls were a series of rooms that served as the living quarters for the mission inhabitants. Also, inon compound
Raise your hand and a student worker with a microphone will come to you. Please stand if you are able and ask just one, brief question. We have a loop Hearing Program as well as a limited number of listening devices. If you have questions about the loop system or if at any time during the program you have difficulty hearing, please alert one of our Staff Members or student volunteers. Before we begin, i would like to remind you to please turn off your cell phones. Now, please join me in welcoming senior associate director, dr. Barbara ballard. Dr. Ballard i was a good evening. This is the Third Program of the lecture series. Is director of communications, robert rowland. We would like to think the university of kansas studies, the department of history, and the department of political science. The interview will be conducted by the Dole Institute director. We have a former Senior Analyst and intelligence expert and intelligence counsel to Senate Majority leaders robert dole and trent l
I started the project asking, is there a long history of black women in sports . I found more than i expected to find quite frankly. There wasnt any archive labeled , this is the history of black sports. So i had to piece it together. I got started by finding three women who actually played baseball in the negro leagues in the 1950s. It was a remarkable story. They played with the men. One of the things that stuck out to me about that story was that the owner who had brought in these black women to play with the man said he had a file where women across the country were writing in to request tryouts. That stuck in my head as a young graduate student and i thought, is there a lot of black girls history trying to play baseball, maybe theres is a Hidden History here. So that made me go out to find other stories in the book, from track, to tennis, from baltimore to rome, really looking at black women in sporting history in the 20th century. Let me talk about two names, oe is quite familiar
Doctor Robert Redfield as director for the center of Disease Control and prevention he with others give a response before the House Foreign Affairs committee. Members have covered coronavirus spreads and whether china is cooperating with un officials. This is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. First off, i appreciate the audience patience and given. We dont control the voting schedule so thank you and the witnesses. Without objection all members have five days to submit statements, extraneous materials for the record subject to lengthy and limitations in the world. I will now make an Opening Statement and then turn over to the Ranking Member for his Opening Statement and i want to thank the Ranking Member for his longtime friendship and partnership in this issue and also thank the members of the cbc and Senior State Department officials for taking the time to come up here. Obviously this is a very timely subject. This is our second heari
Student volunteers. Please turn off your cell phones. And now, please join me in welcoming senior associate director dr. Barbara ballard. [ applause ] thank you very much. Ill say good evening and welcome to the Dole Institute of politics. For the Third Program of the 2020 president ial lecture series. Tonights guest is professor of communications, robert roland. We would like to thank our cosponsors, the university of Kansas Department of Communication Studies, the department of history, and the department of political science. This evenings interview will be conducted by Dole Institute associate director audrey coleman. Joining us tonight as an honored guest is ron marks. Hes our spring 2020 fellow. Hes a former Senior Analyst for the cia and intelligence expert and intelligence counsel to Senate Majority leaders robert dole and trent lott. Would you stand, please . [ applause ] thank you. This years president ial lecture series was created and developed by dr. Robert roland. He is a