We go to Arlington Virginia where women aided communities of newly freed slaves. A museum is dedicated to ensuring that the distinctive contributions of american women to our history and culture are written into our National Narrative. The National Womens museum has sought to achieve this goal for 20 years. We currently exist as a online museum, but our goal is to build a fiscal musing on our National Mall. In 2014, Congress Passed a bipartisan act to create a Congressional Commission to evaluate the feasibility of a National Womens History Museum here in washington d. C. A commission to study the potential creation of a National Womens History Museum and other purposes. We are half of the population. Wherever you stand on womens issues, i am sure there is a consensus in this house that half of the population should not go unmentioned in the textbooks of our country. But there is no museum in the country that shows the full scope of the history of the amazing, brilliant, courageous, in
Test test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 the Senate Health committee holds a hearing on Lessons Learned from the Coronavirus Response and about efforts to prepare for future pandemics. Watch live coverage beginning at 10 00 eastern on cspan 3, online at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Tonight on American History tv at 8 00 p. M. Eastern a look at the lives of Lucretia Garfield and frances cleveland, in cooperation with the White House Historical association, produced a series on the first ladies coming their private lives and the roles they played. Influence and image, featuring individual biographies of the women who served in the role of first lady over 44 administrations. American history tv continues with a discussion on the different ways women experienced the civil war, including class, race and geography. We heard about the relationship between Union Generals and their wives, the additional burdens for women on the home front, and t
These children vary in their intellectual abilities. New york city has its share of boys and girls who show great intellectual promise. This winning essay was selected from among 70,000 entries in the annual United Nations essay contest. The Bronx High School of science has had 100 winners since 1958 in its annual social studies contest, more than any high school in the country. Although new york city has less then 2 of the Nations High School population, we account for 28 of the finalists in the National Westinghouse talent search. Some of these Outstanding Young men and women undoubtedly have been helped in their careers by a start in the intellectually Gifted Program in the Elementary Schools. This program is for children who show great intellectual promise. While it is not new, not every Elementary School has classes for gifted children. When there are not enough pupils in the local school to form this special class, a Central School is provided. At the end of the third grade, some
Good morning. My name is jonathan white, and im the vice chair of thehe Lincoln Forum. Our final speaker this morning isbrian dirk. Ian is a professor of history at Anderson University in indiana. He is the author of numerous books on Abraham Lincoln, imagining america, lincoln in indiana, lincoln the lawyer, and others. His subjects probe some of the most interesting and relevant topics in lincolns life and he has won awards for his work including from the new york civil war roundtable for the best book on Abraham Lincoln published in 2007. He recently had the opportunity to travel to seoul, where he addressed the korean Abraham Lincoln society. I know. Id like to hear more about that. How can i get on that gravy train . Today he will talk to us about his new book the black heavens Abraham Lincoln and death, published earlier this year. A review at civil war monitor states students of the 16th president will want to add this concise, thoughtprovoking, and sensitively written volume t
Well, were going to get started here with round two of president s on whom oliphant was able to bestow his gifts and a country on which he was able to bestow his gifts by commenting and visually and with words on those president s. Im mike nelson. Im the guy that you had to put up with the first panel. Fortunately, we have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices that you heard from the scholars of the first panel. Once again, we have Miller Center people here. The Miller Center, one of its main emphases is to study the presidency in historical depths with objectivity and in other words, we are all in the business of doing stuff that an editorial cartoonist is not in the business of doing, which is reacting to events on a daytoday basis, which pat oliphant did in his 60plus years as a newspaper cartoonist. And whereas we all strive to be as objective as we can, the job of the editorial cartoonist, and pat oliphan as well as anybody has ever done it, to provide c