Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Now on American History tv, a look at the ways american women contributed to the war effort during world war ii. We hear about the expectations for women on the home front to write letters to soldiers, plant Victory Gardens and work in factories and what options were available to women for military service. This is 90 minutes. Fpz well, good to see everybody today. I appreciate you coming to our space here. Today, were going to talk about american women and world war ii. And this is obviously a huge topic, we can spend an entire semester just on this topic alone. So were going to try to break it down into three different spaces and were going to look at a lot of images to kind of fit in with the other things weve talked about. So we are going to talk about american women in three ways. Were going to talk about women at home. Women at work. And women at war. So were going to kind of organize our ideas this way, and again were going to look at
Public affairs in their entirety on our weekly series real america. Saturday at 10 00 p. M. And sunday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern. Here on American History tv. Each week, American History tvs american art facts visits museums and historic places. Next, in the first of a twopart program, we visit the womens memorial Near Arlington National Cemetery to learn about women who served in the u. S. Military. From the revolutionary war through world war ii. This is about 40 mince. Im dina williams. President of the womens memorial foundation. Im a retired Major General from the army and were at the womens memorial in arlington cemetery. Its the only major memorial thats dedicated to women who served their country. We have over 3 million women who have worn the uniform. This memorial was dedicated in 1997. Over 40,000 people line memorial avenue. From the bridge to the memorial. Women from world war i through the current times in 1997. The memorial son 4. 2 acres. It has glass b tableted without him
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what a pleasure it is to welcome a live audience once again to dot auditorium. for the first time in almost two years and of course to those of you who are streaming the program tonight, welcome to you as well. incidentally, i ll tell you it s our plan at this point subject to change. i need not say subject to change but our current plan is to offer the remaining programs this year both in person and via live streaming. and you can always consult our website for updates concerning the venue. now sponsor for this evening s program is one of our oldest chancellor s village. who have been with us for many years? and we are extremely grateful to them for their continuing generous support. this might be a good time to encourage any of you who may be so inclined to make a contribution to great lives. as the continuation of the program depends on this kind of individual and corporate support. and you can do this by once again going to our website for information on how you may contr
Wake up with the sheriff knocking at the door. Court cases have played a part in popular movies. Listen to cspan radio at 90. 1 fm in the washington dc area. Online at cspan. Org. Download our cspan radio app. Herhe cspan cities to visits literary and Historic Sites across the nation every other weekend on cspan2s book tv and cspan3s American History tv. This month with congress on its summer resource summer recess, the city tour is on pan each day at 6 00 a. M. P. M. Eastern. Welcome to austin on American History tv. With help from our car mourner Time Warner Cable partners, we will explore the city of the capital of texas. Austin is referred to as the live music capital of the world because of the venues in the city. It has a population just under one million. Ofe a behind the scenes tour the president ial suite at the Lyndon Johnson president ial library and museum. Didsuite looks just as it with the former president roamed its halls. The space is really a living, breathing artifact