our nation s past. c-span3 created by america s cable television companies as a public service. and brought to you today by your television provider. each week american history tv s american artifacts visits museums and historic places. up next we take you inside the u.s. capitol s house wing where historian matthew wasniewski and karen farar elliott traced the history of women in congress. this is the first of a two-part program. the story of women in congress begins with jeannette ranken elected to the house in 1916 from montana. she s elected to the house four years before women had the right to vote nationally. and in a way she s really a bridge from the suffrage movement to women attaining full political rights. she was active in a national women s suffrage organization. she helped women get the right to vote, not only in montana, but a couple of states west of the mississippi. and she runs in 1916. she s elected to one of montana s two at large districts. and part o
it s clear from your response that you all do too. give a warm welcome to robin muncy. thank you so much. for that introduction and the invitation to come back. that didn t go too badly. and thank you to everybody at the smithsonian associates who made this possible. people who worked on publicity and taken care of the logistics. okay. let me make sure i got this. good. so the 19th amendment of course the woman s suffrage amendment to the u.s. constitution. finally made it through congress in june of 1919. and it was ratified by three quarters of the states in august of 1920. after that, no state could deny the vote on the basis of sex. tonight our job is to explore some of the meanings of the 19th amendment immediately in the aftermath of its passage. before we drill down on that, however, i want to sketch out very quickly no more than ten minutes. i m trying to mold myself on this. sketch out the context in which the women s suffrage amendment passed and which its first f
speak about a year ago. at the time, she said that she was doing research on what happened after women got the vote. and i thought that sounds like a really interesting program. it s clear from your response that you all do too. give a warm welcome to robin muncy. thanks for being here. [ applause ] thank you so much. for that introduction and the invitation to come back. that didn t go too badly. and thank you to everybody at the smithsonian associates who made this possible. people who worked on publicity and taken care of the logistics. okay. let me make sure i got this. good. so the 19th amendment of course the woman s suffrage amendment to the u.s. constitution. finally made it through congress in june of 1919. and it was ratified by three quarters of the states in august of 1920. after that, no state could deny the vote on the basis of sex. tonight our job is to explore some of the meanings of the 19th amendment immediately in the aftermath of its passage. before we d
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