And if you go to sheri caplan. Com, youll see that inspiration for her writing often comes from a nice cup of tea that is by her side or a piece of chocolate. So to provide inspiration today, we present her from the museum shop a hersheys bar and we look forward to your speech. Welcome, sheri. [ applause ] thank you all for coming on this Beautiful Day and thank you to the museum for hosting this event. I put together a power point on the topic and were going to start with that and then afterwards, id be happy to take any questions. So here we go. In a word, wall street is not the place for a lady to find fortune or character. Thats what noted american banker henry clug had to say about the idea of women on wall street. Any thoughts about that . Well, what are we talking about when we talk about the subject of women and wall street . And why does it matter . I wrote this book because i wanted to read it. And it did not exist. When i first wanted to know more about this topic several ye
Good afternoon. Welcome. Hi. Im president of the museum of American Finance, the only finance museum in the nation. Our core mission is to teaching financial history and were a smithsonian affiliate. Welcome back, friends of the museum and our friends from cspan who are taping today. Today we have sheri caplan, author of petticoats and pinstripes. Portraits of women in wall street history. While this is her first book, she is no stranger to writing. She contributes to forbes, to bloomberg law, as well as other media outlets. During her research, she used some of the resources here including a finding in our collection for the image on the cover. She was a Vice President and assistant general counselled a goldman sachs, also on the securities arbitration roster of finra, financial industry regulatory authority. Her undergraduate work was at yale, her jd at the university of virginia. And if you go to sheri caplan. Com, youll see that inspiration for her writing often comes from a nice c
Learn more on American History tv. This is the story of willow run. The story that now can be told in full. [ bell ringing ] we are presently in whats known as hangar one at willow run airport. We are in bay eight. If you look out at a 45degree angle from here we see the two doors where the bombers would come off the Assembly Line after they were built. There are a lot of stories that lead up to the building of the factory. With the war in europe turning hot when the blitzkrieg took place in the low countries, the u. S. Was totally unprepared. Roosevelt went to congress and said the u. S. Must build 50,000 airplanes to protect itself. Then in the fall of 1940, the battle of britain took place and the bombers were devastating england. It came out that bombers would be the way that you would have to fight world war ii. All the Auto Companies were given projects to build engines and airplane parts. Ford Motor Company was given the b24 bomber which was a problematic airplane. It was the ne
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