Makes this collaboration so important to me. My book is a snapshot of a. Ingular moment in history almost exactly 100 years ago. As the world finally began exiting from the devastation of the First World War and was able to begin the dreaming and planning for the peace and the new world that would come afterwards. Mythis moment, i show in book that women from farreaching and incredibly diverse parts of the world began stepping onto the global stage and asserting inserting an agenda of womens rights and gender equality that at the core demanded the rights for women to help shape this new world order and transform it into something that was fundamentally different that then what had given way to world war i. Ibook is a story of women from north america, europe, asia, and the middle east. It is a story of white, wealthy women and also sometimes desperately poor, workingclass women. It is a story of women that were married to tremendously supportive husbands and also women that engaged in
Im the historian at the house. And my job is to collect biographical information on members, gather lists and to conduct oral histories. We answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill and we try to tell the story of the house which is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can kind of connect with it at a human level. We do that through telling biographical stories or clips from oral histories that give people kind of a human sense of a very large institution. And today we thought we would try and do that with you by telling you about the history of women in congress which is a history that dates back to the early 20th century. This is a nifty piece of campaign femora. Its Clare Boothe Luce memorabilia. And Clare Boothe Luce would have been the republican counterpart of helen douglas. She was well known to the general public. Her career really had started as a writer and editor. She later married henry luce, the founder of
Globalization and my work that most pertains to our panel today is a book called promise and peril america at the dawn of a global age. Just out in paperback. You can buy it downstairs. I have the distinct pleasure of being the chair and coorganizer of this really exciting panel i think and i hope youll agree once were done. Its a fascinating topic with tremendous contemporary relevance as well as historygraphical significance. U. S. Foreign relations before and after that kept us out of war election. This is really not just about u. S. Foreign relations but also world relations, international relations. Now, the spark for this panel is the centennial of the 1916 election in which Woodrow Wilson ran on a he kept us out of war platform despite the military interventions ongoing in mexico and the caribbean. Marking the centennial of this election this round table brings together superb historians with a wide array of focuses to address whether or not 1916 should be seen as the end of an
The u. S. Capital has been home to a house internet since 1900, but it is their home districts and states that send numbers to washington d. C. Over the next 90 minutes, a look at pivotal politicians as we search stories. Coming up, he was congressman and former wisconsin governor and 1924 Progressive Party president ial candidate robert mythology. It is a glorious service, this service for the country. The power comes for every citizen. It is an unending struggle to meet and keep government. Bob la follette is probably the most important figure in wisconsin history, and one of the most important history of the 20th century in the United States. He is a reforming governor, and he defined the progressivism. He was one of the first to use the progressive to self identify. He was a United States senator was recognized by his peers in the 19 fifties. One of the five greatest senators of american history. He was an opponent of world war i, he stood his ground advocating for free speech. Abo
She is elected to the house four years before women had the right to vote, nationally. In a way, she is really a bridge from the Suffrage Movement to women attaining full political rights. She was active in a National Womens suffrage organization. She helped women get the right to vote, not only in montana but a couple of states west of the mississippi. She runs in 1916. She is elected to one of montanas to at large districts. Part of her platform is she is a pacifist. Sworn into the house on april 2, 1917, the house has come into special session, extraordinary session, because the president that night, woodrow wilson, delivers a message to Congress Asking for a declaration of war against germany as the u. S. Entry into world war i. When that vote is held, rankin is one of a group of about 50 members who votes against u. S. Intervention in world war i. She served a term in the house. She was on the womens suffrage committee. She was on the public lands committee, which was an important