Host i am here today with jonathan eig. This is such a wonderful book, the birth of the pill. I learned so much. It was exciting. You take this story, a lot of it is about medical merchandising and you make it incredibly exciting and im curious to know your previous books were about baseball. What made you the subject . Guest i didnt have it on my radar at all and ten or 12 years ago i heard a rabbi gives a sermon about the importance of thinking of yourself as a partner of god and being able to change the world but to the responsibility to think about how we can transform our existence. Think of how the Birth Control pill must have set out to create one of the most important inventions of all times but was completely fundamentally change human dynamics. I became really curious and it struck me as odd that anybody would have on their agenda the pill for the liberation of women, something i would control their fertility and when men were controlling the Drug Companies who did that so th
The u. S. Senate he is an outspoken voice for rural american and advocate for small businesses. Hes a champion of American Indian nations pushing for improvements in education, health care and housing, and working to alleviate poverty. Please join me in welcoming the honorable jon tester, the United States senator. Well, thank you, tim, for that kind introduction. Thank you for the warm welcome. It is great to be here today to celebrate the opening of the nations to nation exhibit. This exhibit is a tangible reminder of the federal governments relationship with sovereign tribal nations of this country. Its also a reminder of the moral and legal obligations that the United States has to honor and uphold our treaties with indian countries. The United States has 566 recognized tribes as sovereign entities with their own governments and their own laws. Sovereign is a key word, a treaty is formal, written agreements between sovereign states. And the constitution clearly states that a treaty
This thanksgiving weekend we continue our fourday book tv and American History tv programming. Saturday at 10 00 eastern on book tvs after words jonathan eig on the history of the Birth Control pill. And sunday night bill nye the science guy and why he thinks the teaching of evolution and creation in science class is not only wrong but dangerous. And American History tv on cspan3 saturday night just before 9 00, George Washington and benedict arnold. And sunday afternoon at 4 00 on reel america a glimpse of American Life from 1914 to 1930 from automaker henry fords film collection. Find our complete Television Schedule at cspan. Org and let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Call us at 2026263400. Email us at comments cspan. Org or send us a tweet cspan comments. Like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. Youre watching American History tv, 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan 3. Follow us on twitter for information on our schedule,
Vulnerable to attack. With only one fort located south of the city. And the confederate state of virginia just across the potomac river. By the end of the war, however, the Nations Capital had become one of the most fortified cities in the world. With a ring of about 70 armed force and batteries encircling the city. Next as part of our tour, some of the surviving forts we visit fort stevens which came under direct attack by Confederate Forces in july 1864. This is fort stevens. Which is one of the many forts in the defenses of washington. This is probably the most famous, and ill explain why in a little while. Now originally, this was known as fort massachusetts. The people who built it immediately, after, the battle of first manassas, which really scared the washington, d. C. Area, and they started getting serious about building defenses around cities so fort massachusetts was built in this area by massachusetts troops. It was about a perimeter of about 168 yards, and encompassed abou