Meaningful occasion. Because we have a group of historians who have advised us in the opening of our new gallery civil war and reconstruction, the battle for freedom and equality. [ applause ] who has seen the new gallery . And everyone whos not can vibe about vision 2020, which is really important and i think is cosponsoring our event this evening. Isnt it wonderful . Its so exciting. And so inspiring and so meaningful to tell the story of how the equality promised in jeffersons declaration was thwarted in the original constitution, resurrected by lincoln at gettysburg, and Frederick Douglass, thwarted again and then resurrected by king. And Thavolia Glymph and kate mass masur were two of the scholars, as well as Catherine Clinton tonight, moderated by my colleague anna ulrich. Created an incredible team. If you havent seen it, go down as soon as possible and see it and tell me what you think. Please join me greeting lana and our panelists. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Good evenin
The big question, what we have to explain, how do we go from this new deal and world war ii. , in which the cio is growing exponentially and it is militant and all sorts of voice, and in which workers are calling on the government to 1 and other forms of inequities, how do we get from that to the current moment, with the remnants of a much more bureaucratic and business friendly timid and conventional union . As the last document in his chapter talked about how did the , Labor Movement mature from this conflict class conflict model to one of labormanagement peace . If we view that as maturation and not something else. Lets talk about what changes in the period. If you recall, coming out of world war ii, everything was still up in the air. The United States had still had won the war, but it was up in the air as to what would happen next. That federal government created during the war, those wartime agencies that came into being. What would be their fate . The system of corporatism, the
The big question, what we have to explain, how do we go from this new deal and world war ii. , in which the cio is growing exponentially and it is militant and all sorts of voice, and in which workers are calling on the government to 1 and other forms of inequities, how do we get from that to the current moment, with the remnants of a much more bureaucratic and business friendly timid and conventional union . As the last document in his chapter talked about how did the , Labor Movement mature from this conflict class conflict model to one of labormanagement peace . If we view that as maturation and not something else. Lets talk about what changes in the period. If you recall, coming out of world war ii, everything was still up in the air. The United States had still had won the war, but it was up in the air as to what would happen next. That federal government created during the war, those wartime agencies that came into being. What would be their fate . The system of corporatism, the
Nathalia holt who is here today talk about the research of your new book called rise of the rocket girls. Guest thanks for having me. Host i would like to begin hall you discover this group of women and how you managed to write about this group of women . It is a strange coincidence. My husband and i were expecting our first baby in 2010 having a difficult time coming up with names. One suggested Eleanor Francis and i wasnt sure and tell i googled name Eleanor Francis helene and i was just done by the picture i had no idea that women worked at that time so i found out Eleanor Francis was not alone that jet propulsion is laboratory there were no computers so that a time a computer men to a person that computes. Host how did this group of women come together with that was rare . Just because of macy roberts who started at the jet Propulsion Laboratory near the inception and then made supervisor of the computers and while she had meant that applied she decided she wanted to make it all wo
Welcome to politics prose. Im brad graham, the coowner of the bookstore along with my wife Lissa Muscatine and were very delighted this evening to be hosting Nicole Hemmer whos here to talk her new book, the partizans the conservative revolutionaries who remade american politics. Nicoles a political historian and founding director of the new center for the study of the presidency at vanderbilt university. Shes also a cofounder of made by history, the historical Analysis Section in the washington post. And she writes regularly for number of other publications and a book six years ago, messengers of the right, nicole traced the emergence of conservative media institutions in the midtwentieth century. In her new work, she examines why the Republican Party in the 1990s shifted from kind of conservativism that Ronald Reagan had represented and the previous decade, a conservative wisdom that was optimistic and, popular to a more pessimistic, angrier, even revolutionary conservativism. It was