Muchneeded by the army, fighting a war required a Reliable Communications network. But more than 2. 5 years had of war had devastated the french telephone system. Called upon the expertise of the women telephone operators. More than 1700 women applied and 200 served in europe with the army. Their services are documented in the personnel files in the National Archives at st. Louis. After the war, these women because they were women, they , were not deemed eligible for military benefits despite their army service. Took until the 1970s for those girls to receive the benefits due to them as the First Female Army veterans. In both the military and civilian centers, we preserve records of millions of men and women who served their country throughout the centennial of observance. The National Archives is showcasing the unparalleled world war i holdings and the stories continued in them. To find out more about hello girls and their place in world war i, we turn to Elizabeth Cobbs. Dr. Cobbs is
Topics include head injuries, concussions, opioid addiction, and doping at the olympic level. This is two hours and 20 minutes. Sexual abuse and dealt with at the olympic level. This is two hours and 15 minutes. Good morning and welcome to todays hearing. It is no exaggeration to say that americans love sports. We love watching them, playing them, collecting Sports Memorabilia and even arguing about our favorite teams and athletes. Whether it is watching the super bowl with friends, joining an office bracket pool for march madness or stretching out for the turkey trot 5k races on things giving morning. And a pickup Football Game later that afternoon. We love our sports personally, i made doctors and a packers fan. Some of my best moments have been spent competing in sports or cheering on my two daughters at their meats and games. This committee is committed to promoting american success and international competition. Ensuring exciting play in that the professional leagues providing opp
Host hallo, Stuart Taylor. Thanks for being here to discuss your book, the campus rape frenzy the attack on due process at americas universities. I thought i would start by asking you to tell us a little bit about your coauthor and when you all started working together that led up to the book were talking about today. Guest mike coauthor is casey johnson, a brilliant professor of history at Brooklyn College and the City University graduate center, harvard phd, probably if he was more politically correct to be teaching at home. We both became interested before we knew each other in a duke lacrosse rape fraud as it turned out to be a begin at 20066 and ended in 2007. We both saw not only the National Media but the duke faculty and administration rushing to judgment in a very despicable i kind of want to focus more on what is in this book is share for the viewers whats your general thesis that we looking at here, what are we going to be reading about when open the pages . Guest the gist o
What is the movement you speak of . The movement for peace and social justice. When i was 17, i discovered part of that movement was for people like me, gay people and now called lgbtq something something something. The movement is larger than the gay move . I grew up believing all movements for social justice were connected and we were all part of a larger struggle to end racism and poverty and war. I think that has changed bit over the years but still the way i look at it and i think it would be helpful nor people viewed it that way. How would you define the gay movement in 2017 . Win 2017, i think lgbtq people face a challenge. We have won important victories in recent years particularly during the Obama Administration and now i think all of these advances clearly are in grave danger of being reversed. So, we have a Younger Generation that grew up under obama and never knew the kind of struggle my generation went through. It was part of my impetus to write the book. I wanted young p
Vaccine race science, politics, and the human costs of defeating disease. The centers for Disease Control and prevention considers that the number one Public Health achievement of the 20th century. Indeed, vaccines have saved millions of lives it because of vaccinations for smallpox was eradicated and other diseases such as polio, rubella and evenr chickenpox are a thing of theech past. This book is not only the story of the great achievement of Public Health. Ou it is also about the men, womena and children who help take these vaccines possible. Throughout this book, contemporary interviews with key players bring the personalities of these important scientific individuals alive on the page. Dr. Wadman does not shy away from their comfortable truth embedded within the history of vaccine are not user. The vaccine race reminds us it is important that we learn from our past so that the story written in the future about how we solve the crisis of today as much more ethically grounded. Perh