By there joined now director of this museum. Good morning to you. In this Centennial Anniversary year and the passage of the 19th amendment, explain the wagon behind you and how it figures into womens suffrage and democracy in america. Womens suffrage and democracy in america. Guest good morning, and welcome to the year of the woman, which you could argue every year should be. This year is incredibly special for all in america and at the smithsonian. We are banded together in celebrating the american womens History Initiative throughout the smithsonian museums, online, and through all of our activities. We are particularly grateful to have three exhibitions opening, spurring really from this one. This is democracy in america, the great leap of faith that opened a few years ago. I am in the gallery that takes us through the long and arduous and continuing effort to expand democracy to enfranchised more and more americans. As you might know, early on, only landed, white men with property
Me about her strange inheritance and how it turned her into a sort of time traveler, right back to her fathers harrowing past. My name is Miriam Friedman morris. My father, David Friedman, a painter and holocaust survivor, left me a diary, tagebuch fuer Miriam Friedman. As i read it, the diary led me on a remarkable journey that continues to this day. Miriam, im jamie. Hi. Welcome. Miriam wrote us an email that said. It was so impassioned, i had to meet her. My goodness. Look at all of this. I feel like im in fineart gallery or a museum. Tell me about your parents. My parents were both holocaust survivors, and in 1954, we moved from israel to new york. In her minds eye, little miriam sees only gauzy pictures of her fathers past. He doesnt tell her all that much. She knows he was a painter, who, in world war i, drew combat scenes on the russian front and was decorated for bravery. But shes in the dark about the full scope of his artistic career, including hundreds of drawings of top per
Be in tomorrows debate, 19 in poll, hes on the vegas stage, he bought his way in over 400 million of Campaign Spending so far, item two that poll pulls Bernie Sanders way out front, 31 , hes now the clear leader. Item 3, more taper tape emerges and black and latino males dont know how to behave in the workplace, ouch, what a day, what a week to come, 3 trump rallies, by the way. Varney company is about to begin enormous cohort of black and latino males age lets says 6 to 25 that dont have jobs, dont have any prospects, dont know how the find jobs, dont know what their skill sets are, dont know how to behave in the workplace. Stuart last the latest Mike Bloomberg tape to emerge. Joining us james freeman, those kinds of comments and hes made several of them, thats not the way to go in politics, youre insulting population, hes going to be in the debate, he will be a target. I think what we will talk about the debate is results, he will talk about the thousands of young minority lives that
Reporter its not clear just yet how long the couple aboard the train had been arguing but what we do know it didnt take officers long at all to find them once they pulled into the station, and just a few seconds there after for the whole situation to unravel. Shots fired shots fired. The radio called for officers on the platform as they open fire, and there was a lot of shots and then panic from passengers. Like an m80, like on halloween, and everybody was running out. Bart police chief said his a watching an between a young mad woman aboard the plane and just as they arrived the caller told the dispatcher that young man had a gun. The officers got on the platform and challenged that individual who ran off the train and down the platform and on to the track way and at which time a gun was produced by the suspect. A handgun was recovered at the scene, and the young man that was shot airlifted with lifethreatening injuries, and police have not released details about him or the woman he w
Naval battle in history and was a decisive victory for the United States and their allies. Up next, six panelists participate in the 75th befallingy discussion the panel, a retired admiral discusses the legacy of the battle. All, i would like to put in a little plug for a marvelous new book written by our first speaker or edited, tom cutler has edited this retrospective published by the Naval Institute. Recently it was put out and in fact filled with interesting new and old assessments of the battle, including some japanese testimony. Also a number of the panelists have written for this as well. I wanted to at least give that a plug. Second, what i wanted to do was this,ould not resist namely for a couple of reasons. Thanks to wikipedia i discovered the fact that it has become the basic Foundation Source to go , which then says you cannot cite it. I did have one person who used it for his entire paper, which is another story. But i discovered some different points. If you search this b