Compared options for women in service with each military branch. Its good to see everybody today. I appreciate you coming to our space here. Today were going to talk about american women and world war ii. This is obviously a huge topic. We could spend a semester just on this topic alone. Were going to try to break it into three spaces. We will look at a lot of images to fit in with other things we have talked about. Were going to talk about american women. Were going to talk about women at home. Women at work. And women at war. Were going to organize our ideas this way. Were going to look at a lot of the propaganda. We have been talking about propaganda throughout the semester and watching videos and things like that. We will get a chance to talk everybody found the video okay . Its a good one on women at work during world war ii. You can find it on the National Archives website. We will talk about these different parts of women during american women during world war ii. Were just hitt
Married to a man known as silent cal, she never spoke to the press, but she did use her office to bring attention to issues she cared about. Good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started small in city council, a City Solicitor in massachusetts where the coolidges lived, and went all the way up the ladder of the s
Susan swain good evening, and welcome to cspan series, first ladies influence and image. Tonight, well be telling you the story of first lady Grace Coolidge who came into office with her husband, the president , in 1923 after the sudden death of president harding. Here to set the stage for us as we learn about the fiveplus years of their time in the white house is amity shlaes, who is a coolidge biographer, syndicated columnist, author of other books on that period. Welcome to the program. Lets have you just tell us about of the arrival of Calvin Coolidge into the white house. How prepare was he for the job . Amity shlaes actually, quite prepared because hed been a politician all his life. President coolidge was one of those men who started small in city council, a City Solicitor in massachusetts where the coolidges lived, and went all the way up the ladder of the state of massachusetts, and then to vicepresident. So, one could never be prepared for a shock like the death of a presiden
At work during world war ii. You can find it on the National Archives website. But well talk about that. But well talk about these different parts of women american women during world war ii. Were just hitting the survey, theres so much we can talk about throughout the entire semester, and we do all of u. S. And world war ii, except we cant do all of it so we do our bits and pieces. Weve already talked about some of these. Some will be familiar. Especially when we get to women at work part. But then well go from there. Be sure to stop me if you have any questions and well do our thing. So women at home. So when we think about this one of the biggest things i want you to do today is think about this reality for the homefront, which is mainly what were talking about, and the reality of what life meant for women in the war. With one of the first that we often think about is all the men going away to war. The men are going off. That means who is left behind . The women. Right . The women.
Showers right across the san mateo bridge across the east bay from concord, walnut creek, san ramon. And looking at, light to moderate rain from fremont. But pouring from milpitas down through san jose. We will talk more about what you can expect for scattered showers this afternoon, coming up. Here in the live shot. Definitely going to be careful. When advisories are in effect for some of our bay area bridges that includes the webers life. And, we can see all those raindrops. And those like the blowing in the wind. It looks like traffic is starting to stack up. Keeping a close eye on that. There is a crash reported a vehicle out in lane. And, just a heads up, if you plan on taking the freeway. I went advisory here. And, other trouble spots, you want to look out for, there is a broken down vehicle right at 980. Hopefully they can clear that pretty quickly. Right at traffic, as you approach this. Your drivetime. To the maze. It will take about 14 minutes. New this morning, heavy rain so