american artifacts takes you to museums and other places to learn about american history. next, we visit alexandria, virginia, to see civil war related sites where women worked as nurses. sold goods to soldiers, and aided communities of newly freed slaves. the national women s history museum is dedicated to ensuring that the distinctive contributions of american women to our history and our culture are written into the national merit narrative. the women s history museum has sought to achieve this goal for 20 years, we currently exist as an online museum, but the goal is to build a physical museum on our national mall. in 2014, congress passed a bipartisan act to create a congressional commission to evaluate the feasibility of a national women s history museum here in washington dc. permission to study the potential creation of a national women s history museum for further purposes. we are half of the population. wherever you stand on women s issues, i am sure there
this event was taped in 2014 at a bookstore in asheville, north carolina. t s about an hour. denise: i am thrilled to be here with karen abbott. i love her book. love all her books. you show us this entire other view of chicago through the eyes of the two most famous american madams ever. in american rose, we learned about an american icon who hasn t been explored the way you explored her. now with liar, temptress, soldier, spy, you hit on several things i adore. unexplored american history, espionage, and women with real spines, adventurous incredible women. tell us about what this book is about. karen: i will tell you the origins. i was born and raised in philadelphia and moved to atlanta in 2001. i noticed immediately that the civil war seeps in the conversation in the south in a way it never does in the north. i saw the occasional confederate flag, heard the jokes of the war of northern aggression. the point was really driven [laughter] good point. and the point was
migration. international migration at the graduate and undergraduate level. i also teach family, and i ve taught religion, development. but my favorite course is migration. host: what s similar about the current migration patterns from mexico to the u.s. to past immigration in the u.s.? anything? guest: it s, the composition has changed. there are more and more women. there are more and more unattached youth. so unaccompanied minors has become a huge part of the migration flow from mexico. there are more and more of the poorest leaving. it used to be migration was more selective. you had to have some resources to make the journey. but the situations have become so desperate, especially in honduras. and parts of salvador can. so it s really salvador. so it s really pulling the youngest and the poorest. more and more women, more and more danger. host: anyone make it on their own without spending on a coyote or guest: yeah. i mean, there are seasoned migrants that wi
soldier, spy: 4 women undercover in the civil war you had on things i adore. you have unexplored american history, espionage and women with some real sparks in a, really adventuress, incredible women. tell us a little bit about what this book is about. i tell you about this book. in eastern philadelphia i move to atlanta in 2001. and at the conversation in the south and a way it never does here in the north. the occasional considered confederate flag on the line. i heard about jokes about the northern war of aggression but the point was really driven the point and that was driven home especially that it wasn t a joke when i was stuck in traffic for hours baja and a pickup truck that had a bumper sticker that said don t blame me. i voted for jeff davis. so i thought that when looking at this bumper sticker for hours and started thinking of course about what were the women doing. my mind goes to what the women were doing and they didn t have easy access to political disc
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