Tv, Professor Lisa Keller delivering an illustrated talk on womens roles during World War two. She explains how the influx of women in the workforce changed traditional roles and paved the way for the womens rights movement. Okay. Well, good afternoon, everybody. Welcome here to st. Pauls church national historic site. Thanks so much for coming out on this late winter saturday. Im david osborn, the site manager, and here we are in march Womens History month. I think yesterday was international womens day, and in that spirit and also reflecting some themes in a new exhibit we just opened here in st. Pauls on the other side of the wall called a special role in World War ii. Were very pleased to have Professor Lisa Keller who is a professor over in westchester county, one of the great organizational places of our county. Lots of their Faculty And Staff come out into the community and do good and interesting things. Professor Kell Sert author of many books on american history, and shes goi
Compared options for women in service with each military branch. Its good to see everybody today. I appreciate you coming to our space here. Today were going to talk about american women and world war ii. This is obviously a huge topic. We could spend a semester just on this topic alone. Were going to try to break it into three spaces. We will look at a lot of images to fit in with other things we have talked about. Were going to talk about american women. Were going to talk about women at home. Women at work. And women at war. Were going to organize our ideas this way. Were going to look at a lot of the propaganda. We have been talking about propaganda throughout the semester and watching videos and things like that. We will get a chance to talk everybody found the video okay . Its a good one on women at work during world war ii. You can find it on the National Archives website. We will talk about these different parts of women during american women during world war ii. Were just hitt
Blackness but not talk about what the responsibilities are. Nobody wants the burden, the loathing. But the lure is a billion dollar global industry. Walters pushed back against that. I think in a lot of ways, thats going to be his legacy. He is one of the most important black political figures of the postwar period as an intellectual, policy advocates, someone willing to speak truth to power and not just to white conservatives and white people, but really to black leadership and black people. Thats it. Thank you. Thats it for this week. We will meet again next week. Were featuring American History tv programs as a preview of whats available every weekend on cspan3. We spinniwing through the south emory university. A professor discusses efforts in the early 1960s to register africanamerican voters in mississippi. American history tv tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan3. American history tv products are available at the cspan online store. Go to cspanstore. Org to see whats new for American
Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Now on American History tv, a look at the ways american women contributed to the war effort during world war ii. We hear about the expectations for women on the home front to write letters to soldiers, plant Victory Gardens and work in factories and what options were available to women for military service. This is 90 minutes. Fpz well, good to see everybody today. I appreciate you coming to our space here. Today, were going to talk about american women and world war ii. And this is obviously a huge topic, we can spend an entire semester just on this topic alone. So were going to try to break it down into three different spaces and were going to look at a lot of images to kind of fit in with the other things weve talked about. So we are going to talk about american women in three ways. Were going to talk about women at home. Women at work. And women at war. So were going to kind of organize our ideas this way, and again were going to look at
Mountaineering mount vernon, new york posted this event. Good afternoon, welcome to saint pauls church. Thank you so much for coming out here. I am david osborne. In march. E yesterday was International Womens day. In that spirit and also reflecting scenes in a new exhibit we opened, called a special role, we are pleased to have here today professor lisa ar, unprofessional or professor here to read one of the great cultural organizations of our county. Many come out and do good and interesting things. She is the author of many books on American History and she is going to be talking about womens History Month and world war ii bank. Their roles, their lives, their expectations. I think she would appreciate giving the talk. Anyone with questions, holding them until the and. David. K you, it is delightful to be here. I have spoken here many times. Most osborne is one of the energetic and intelligent of all of the site directors in the National Park service. Many students to him to be inte