Rates in the wave of the horrors of the great war. And at some of these women who are attending 1919 1920 press conference, helped push president Woodrow Wilson to support the 19th amendment. The National World War One Museum hosted this event and provided the video. It is such a pleasure to cooperate with the museum and i am thankful to laura for reaching up to me and making this program possible. I have about 45, 50 minutes of stories and information that i am excited to share with you. I do very much hope that you will pose whatever questions you have. I dont always have the answers but i will certainly give it my best shot. So, the cover that you are looking at there on your screens, the cover of my most recent book, peace on our terms. It is fundamentally tied to the history of world war i which makes this collaboration so important to me. My back as a snapshot of a singular moment in history. Almost exactly 100 years ago, as the world finally began accident from the devastation f
It will tell you every vote recorded for every office, from local dot catcher to the president of the United States, up until the 18 twenties. It will give every candidate. Whether the candidate is known anywhere outside his own family. If he got a vote, hes on that list on the website. Explore that, its fascinating. Its fascinating. You have to love our audience. They are better than google. What the day. . They have an answer about one of the questions. This is about the Church Services that were moved to statutory hall. You the first catholic to preach in the capital was the bishop of north and south carolina. He preached there on january 8th, 1826 for two hours. While. Now you know something that you didnt know. I would bet thats an episcopalian bishop and not a catholic bishop. It says the first catholic according to shane mccarthy. Mccarthy should know, right . He put his name behind it, so im just putting it out there. I buy it. Chuck, i think a couple of people asked about your
Podcast. Listening to programs on cspan for cspan radio just got easier. Tell your Smart Speaker play cspan radio and listen to washington journal daily at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Weekdays at 5 00 p. M. And 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Cap washington today for a fastpaced report from the day. Just tell your Smart Speaker to play cspan radio. Cspan, powered by cable. Evening. President and ceo of the United States Capital Historical Society i have the honor of serving as the master of ceremonies for this event. I want to acknowledge and several of my Board Members are here. I have to be especially nice to them. They are my bosses. Sean perry giles. Wave your hand. Thank you very much for all that you do to keep the society going the Historical Society was founded i in 1962 to encourage n the most comprehensive and enlightened banner and understanding by the American People of the significance of the capital as the tangible symbol of their representative form of government. And we celebrate the capit
Producer grace guggenheim whose credits include the Academy Awardwinning johnstown flood. And michael hill who coproduced pbss the civil war. The u. S. Capital Historical Society hosted the event as part of the National Heritage lecture. It is about one hour and 20 minutes. I am stacy mcbride. Welcome to your 25th lecture. Senator blunt is a High School History teacher. I will try to do him justice in describing this room you have chosen for your 25th lecture. You have chosen a remarkably historic room. But first, i have to thank the offices of the Senate Curator and historian who prepare and fantastic histories of all of our art and all of our rooms. Without them, this introduction would not be possible. To begin, in the early the house 1900s, and senate decided they had outgrown their space. They commissioned two architects from new york to build them a house and Senate Office building. Those buildings have become the Cannon House Office building and the russell Senate Office buildin
One would influence the other. Thats an extremely complicated question. What happens is many chinese are come to america and white workers accuse them of working for lower wages and of being imported here, meaning being carried in on contracts. And some go out of their way and say were not against chinese immigration, were just opposed to them being brought here on contracts. Politicians in this period, the 1870s and the 1880s is an era in that the two parties are virtually equal in numbers. For the last 20 years or so there have been been dimensions but weve had some of the closest elections in history. Now, as well see this year, there are a half dozen Battle Ground states. Whoever wednesday ohio and florida will likely twin election. Democrats and republicans were evenly divided. Anything that could gain a few votes would switch the election. They claim they kind of fudge over the argument about importation and say if we keep the chinese outs, this will be good for the american econ