Thank you very much. The beverages are still here, so you may enjoy one another. Our photographer has a few photos to take. Thank you so much. Each week museums, Historic Sites around the country. Next library of congress in washington, d. C. , to learn about baseballs origins and early days. Welcome to the library of congress. Im susan rayburn, curator of baseball americana. This was a collaboration the library did with Major League Baseball, espn and Baseball Hall of fame in cooperstown. Weve got incredible things on display, things youve probably never seen before. Lets start with some of the earliest. So right now were standing in the front of the exhibit looking at origins and early days where weve got some interesting artifacts that suggest that baseball has a history thats much longer than the 19th century. In fact, weve got an example from a medieval manuscript. These are little miniature figures that are part of the border of a book produced in 1344. You can see weve got a mon
Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi. The speaker of the house of representatives. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Yes. Yes, indeed. This afternoon is very much a cause for celebration and cheering for what happened 100 years ago today. In the house of representatives. Well, thank the u. S. Army String Quartet for making it so pleasant for us. [ applause ] im honored to be here with Kevin Mccarthy and the bipartisan members of congress. Mostly our women members of congress. We salute our cochairs of the bipartisan house caucus for womens issues, congresswoman Brenda Lawrence and congresswoman debbie lesko. [ applause ] and let us welcome cokie roberts, a trail blazing force for women in journalism and her daughter rebecca, an outstanding journalist in her own right writing about women. [ applause ] as many of the women members know, the lindy boggs room in this room, the only room named for a woman in the capitol is named for cokies lovely mother and rebeccas grandmother, l
The missoula free speech fight. So in the fall of, 1909, this woman pictured here, Elizabeth Gurley flynn, made her way to missoula to organize laborers. She was very young, 19 years old, as old, as some of you guys are, maybe even a little bit younger than some of you are. But she and several people were there to organize laborers, and specifically lumber workers in the missoula area. But the outcome of her visit there was not just a battle over rights and working conditions, but ultimately a battle over free speech. The rights to free speech, the right to speak freely in public, to assemble in public without being harassed or arrested or jailed. So in this, were going to were going to get into the details of what actually happened in missoula. But i also want to start out a little more broadly talk about the context of this period and whats leading up to this battle, whats shaping it, and then in the aftermath, talk a little about what happened to some of these people that were invol
The missoula free speech fight. So in the fall of, 1909, this woman pictured here, Elizabeth Gurley flynn, made her way to missoula to organize laborers. She was very young, 19 years old, as old, as some of you guys are, maybe even a little bit younger than some of you are. But she and several people were there to organize laborers, and specifically lumber workers in the missoula area. But the outcome of her visit there was not just a battle over rights and working conditions, but ultimately a battle over free speech. The rights to free speech, the right to speak freely in public, to assemble in public without being harassed or arrested or jailed. So in this, were going to were going to get into the details of what actually happened in missoula. But i also want to start out a little more broadly talk about the context of this period and whats leading up to this battle, whats shaping it, and then in the aftermath, talk a little about what happened to some of these people that were invol
The missoula free speech fight. So in the fall of, 1909, this woman pictured here, Elizabeth Gurley flynn, made her way to missoula to organize laborers. She was very young, 19 years old, as old, as some of you guys are, maybe even a little bit younger than some of you are. But she and several people were there to organize laborers, and specifically lumber workers in the missoula area. But the outcome of her visit there was not just a battle over rights and working conditions, but ultimately a battle over free speech. The rights to free speech, the right to speak freely in public, to assemble in public without being harassed or arrested or jailed. So in this, were going to were going to get into the details of what actually happened in missoula. But i also want to start out a little more broadly talk about the context of this period and whats leading up to this battle, whats shaping it, and then in the aftermath, talk a little about what happened to some of these people that were invol