Leading us to a very chilly night with lows dropping into the low single digits. Wednesday there is a quick clipper that will swing through the and early afternoon that should give us a ranging from a couple inches. Were still cold the rest of the week but we will warm back to the 20s by thursday and friday. Valentines day as of now still looks to be fairly cold with snow possible, but luckily next week we are still expecting a warming trend. Elias lets get into the morning. Elias the Winter Weather hitting north and central iowa forced the Iowa Department of transportation and state patrol to close down interstate 35 between ames and clear lake. As we can see this morning. This is looking at the northbound lanes of the interstate. High winds and snowy weather left visibility poor, leading to Car Accidents. The roadway some stranded in ames, and officials have also warned against using sections of highway 69, which runs parallel to the interstate. Sabrina in the number two spot this mo
Conditions and hazardous travel were widespread. Some likely still impact roads since the strong winds will stay in place and that light snow hasnt been able today will be very the mid to upper teens and wind chills below zero for most of the day. Overnight tonight well see a lot less cloud cover and wind leading us to a very chilly night with lows single digits. Wednesday there is a quick clipper that will swing through the state in the morning and early afternoon that should give us a light snow with totals ranging from a couple tenths to about 2 inches. Were still cold the rest of the week but we will warm back to the 20s by thursday and friday. Valentines day as of now still looks to be fairly cold with snow possible, but luckily next week we are still expecting a warming trend. Elias lets get into the top five this morning. The winter north and forced the Iowa Department of and state patrol to close down interstate 35 between ames and clear lake. As we can see this morning. This i
Military records from the union during the civil war, newspapers, one of the most fascinating sources that i found was advertisement indy new orleans paper for rose. She is advertised for sale in the newspaper. Two kaiser day. That was shocking but at the same time indicated how routine for buying and selling of human beings was in the american south. Sources were plentiful. The biggest point here is there are sources available, the individual lives of people, historians have not reached part of that project, so much to recover the lives of people lost to history. Questions . Fascinating stories of the blockade in it seems there is regular commerce between the south and cuba, getting his cotton from South Carolina to of anna, backandforth. Apparently wasnt a particularly good blockade or they picked good blockade runners. Questions about the blockade, the blockade was porous. And the first yearandahalf of the war, new orleans was the center of blockade, once the union captured new orle
Networks. Than 50 years of repo world events thats this christmas dane at cspan networks. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next, we take you inside the house wing of the u. S. Capitol to learn about the history of women in congress in the second of a twopart program, we continue the story beginning in the 1940s with republican congresswoman clare boothe luce. Im farrah elliott, a curator for the house of representatives and that means that i take care of a lot of the artifacts, the artwork, the objects that document the houses rich heritage. My nobody job is to collect bigraphical information on members, gather data and historic list and 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 some we do that through tel
Beginning in the 1940s with republican congresswoman clare booth luce. Im farar elliott. I take care of a lot of the artifacts, the artwork, the objects that document the houses rich heritage. Im matthew wasniewski, the historian at the house. My job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data and lists and conduct oral historys. We answer reference questions 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 connect with it at a human level. We do that through telling biographical stories or clips from oral histories that give people a human a sense of a very large institution. Today, thought we would try and do that 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 ephemera. It is for clare booth luce, her reelection campaign. It is quite handy. It tells