They thought it was important for women to talk about their own rights, and in fact, the question of the rights to vote in 1848 was probably, of the many items on the agenda was the most controversial, and it was a very close vote. People or women at the convention were more focused on other aspects of womens rights at the time, but that really is the date that we highlight as the start of the womens Suffrage Movement. Greta what is happening in other countries at this time . Are women in other countries able to vote . Dr. Banaszak to start, i would say that women in new jersey voted from 1776 to about 1807, so women and at least part of the United States have the right to vote, and then it is taken away at the constitution is revived. The first country to give women the right to vote was new zealand, and that was in 1893, so much earlier than in the United States, although 1890 is the first state in the United States to give women the right to vote kind of permanently, and that is wyo
By theas deeply moved depths of her concern and her act of selfsacrifice. Ais led him to compile collection and the book was published. Story and the book were given wide publicity. This film is presented as a gift. Let us work ever harder to fulfill her last wish. Committee for the investigation of war crimes in vietnam was established in october. Last december, a team consisting theeven members was sent to republic of vietnam from japan. We arrived in hanoi on december the 21st, two days before the christmas ceasefire. The chairman of the committee of the democratic republic of vietnam for the investigation of also minister of health and hygiene. We started our on the spot survey, dividing the work between us. Our team first went down to the 17th parallel. We been carried on our investigations. We talked directly with more than 200 witnesses and collected great for righties of material evidence. The capital of this province. This is a place of total destruction. Not even the features
Public digitally on our website. We would like to show you the items themselves and talk about them. The core of this collection is the omar ibn said biography. Autobiography, in fact. It is written in arabic. It was a biography written in 1831 by a man who was enslaved a couple of decades earlier. He was asked to write his autobiography, which he did. You asked me to write my life. Im not able to do this because i have much forgotten my own, as well as the arab language. Neither can i write very grammatically or according to the true idiom. So, my brother, i beg you not to blame me because i am a man of weak eyes and a weak body. Ms. Deeb this autobiography has been well known. For the last almost 200 years, its existence has not been known. It is not a mystery. It has been passed on from hand to hand. It has been at certain times owned by people and disappeared from everyones of you and then it reappears. The latest owner was an africanamerican collector of africana and historic docu
Off your cell phone or anything that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. This past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Navy Fighter Weapons program. We are thrilled this evening to welcome the programs founder, dan pederson. He entered the u. S. Navy in 1953 and went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the legendary Top Gun Program at Naval Air Station miramar in march of 1969. He served in combat during the vietnam war with the flying crews on the uss hancock and three on the uss enterprise. He retired as a captain, having accumulated 6100 flight hours and 1005 flight carrier landings while flying 39 different types of aircraft. For those of you who know pedersons story from the 1986 movie, top gun, Jerry Bruckheimer is producing, top gun maverick, a sequel in 2020. His book is available for purchase and signing following this conversation. Here to keep the conversation going is larry burke, curator of Naval Aviatio
Headquarters company on the Demilitarized Zone between north and south korea. In 2014 he was selected for advanced civil schooling at Georgetown University in washington, d. C. He graduated with a masters degree in history in 2016. And assumed the position as an instructor in the department of history at the United States military academy at usma. He taught courses in both military and United States history. And currently directs the Academy Chorus civil war america, which studies americas society, politics, economy and military from 1816 to 1877. Hes joined tonight by his wife shannon and together theyve got three kids, nate, liam and elizabeth, 12, 2 and 1 years old. Turn over things now to major lambert. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you for the introduction and thank you for being here to learn about civil war gun powder and logistics. As always, although i am a major in the United States army nothing i say tonight is the opinion or policy of the d. O. D. , all views are entirely m