Good morning, everyone. That poster of the everyone. That poster of the women members of congress. Thank you for being with us today. It is a very special day in the history of our country. 101 years ago today, the house of representatives voted to pass the 19th amendment. As you know, that is the amendment that gives women the right to vote. They werent given because they fought very hard for it but that success was achieved. Pass thenother year to process of ratification. In august, we will observe the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote, but today, we are honoring what happened in the house of representatives on this very day. We are very proud of the fact that we have over 100 women in congress now, over 90 women on the democratic side. We made a decision about that a long time ago. Carolyn maloney who could not be with us, but she has been a champion on all of these issues whether it is a womens museum, equal rights amendment, you name it. Wanted to salute her as w
Director of the wyoming institute for humanities research. Im excited to welcome you to the topic which is pandemics in historical perspective. Im excited to introduce the history and member of the committee who will be our moderator tonight and introduce our speaker. Please welcome. Thank you, scott, and our panelists who agreed to participate. With usu for sticking and to all of you out there tuning in and some form or another. Going to do a brief introduction and i will let them each talk for a couple minutes how their work intersects with our theme tonight. She is the author of an earlier piece of what the pandemic and teaches about the crisis. Williams we have jacob , an associate professor of history at the college of charleston. He specializes in the history of science, medicine, disease, and is working on a book that examines scientific attitudes and cultural constructions of typhoid fever. Editor of the journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences. Toi will handed ov
I was born and raised in the country. At the time of growing up, my father was in the dairy business. We were farm people and we lived in a farm community. We had 11 kids born to our family. Some of them back in the teens and when the flu hit in 1918, the epidemic came along, we lost most of them. But five of us survived. I wasnt born yet. I wasnt born until 1923. Of course the flu epidemic ended in 1919. We had no military influence in our community at all. There was no bases. People who went in the army back at that time and we didnt know there was any other branch of the service. Because we thought everybody went into the army. The army was the army and included everybody. The army or military service was not too well thought of in those days. You went in the army because you were in trouble with the law or you were too lazy to work. Thats the only reason you went into the military. We had a couple of fellows in our community who apparently didnt like to farm. They didnt like hoeing
Phase two of reopening starts in several bay area counties come tomorrow. Aisle he explain what that means. Another round of showers heading our way. Ill let you know how long it is expected to last. American idol contestant has an entire neighborhood hyped up. This is only the beginning. Abc 7 news starts right now. Good evening. Im eric thomas. Your health, childrens education and the changing workplace. As well as your money. All issues were focusing on in our effort to build a better bay area. Tonight, the economy. Looser restrictions go into place tomorrow in marin, San Francisco, and san mateo counties for some businesses, and those counties in green, much of the north bay, is already in phase two. While almeda and Contra Costa Countys say they will begin to move on to the next phase very soon. Santa clara county has no date set to begin phase two. We begin our coverage with abc 7 News Reporter jr stone who went to marin county. Were going to do everything we possibly can to make
This day of remembrance with our family and friends, things look a little bit different this year. Even though we wont have the same services and ceremonies that we typically take part in, it does not make this day any less important. Just like every year, this memorial day, lets commemorate the Service Members and families who have sacrificed in defense of our freedom. The freedoms we cherish but are so often taken for granted did not come without a price. For generations, american patriots have secured our blessings of liberty by willingly laying down their lives in defense of our great nation. Every fallen soldier leaves behind a grieving parent, child, sibling, spouse, or friend. These family members and friends never forget that knock at the door, the sound of taps, the loud thunder of the 21 gun salute or the touch of a folded flag once laid on a casket. Combat veteran who served in Operation Iraqi freedom, i know that the men and women in uniform who served bravely alongside the