What america should be. The northerners who won had an idea of what america should be. The indians and the chinese at out west had ideas about what america should be and certainly the northern men who had won the war had ideas about what the country should be. The critical question as to what it was going to be was who was going to have a say in it. We have gone to that as well, but who had a say in what that new nation was going to be was going to have a dramatic affect on what it eventually became. Today i want to talk about women and womens lives in the late 19th century and their role in what was really the reconstruction, the true rebuilding of the north, south, and the west into a new nation in the wake of the civil war. The story of women is more crucial to that story than most people realize. Most people when they think about womens rights in america start here and you probably know about this from high school, the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 when a number of women came tog
The anniversary of the firing on fort sumter, everybody has different ideas about what the nation is supposed to become. We have gone through that with the idea that africanamerican men who had fought for the union what americas of should be, and certainly white southerners had in idea about what america should be. The northerners who won had an idea of what america should be. The indians and the chinese at out west had ideas about what america should be and certainly the northern men who had won the war had ideas about what the country should be. The critical question as to what it was going to be was who was going to have a say in it. We have gone to that as well, but who had a say in what that new nation was going to be was going to have a dramatic affect on what it eventually became. Today i want to talk about women and womens lives in the late 19th century and their role in what was really the reconstruction, the true rebuilding of the north, south, and the west into a new nation
It feels like one degree at Reagan National, zero in gaithersburg. Andrews, minus one wind chill. We still have a little bit of a breeze that is bringing us wind chills, wind out of the northwest at about five to 15 miles per hour. Air temperatures are in the teens. Probably want to allow a few extra minutes to warm that car up this morning. Our High Temperature today, only 27, the coldest day since january 7. Feeling like the teens throughout the day. Just nasty cold. We will talk more about what you can expect for that polar party for new years. Alison we have nasty traffic to go with the nasty weather. Straight to the beltway, left lanes taken away with an accident. Sizable delays through here. They are starting to move that it is as the 270 spur, parking lot and extends beyond that. , outer loopwn road of the beltway delayed back to old georgetown road and continuing to stack up, but we have hope is that accident is starting to clear at river road. Blue line delays continuing becau
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