Special many series of six lectures lectures entitled great president ial lives. This series is particularly attractive for two main reasons. The first being its timeliness. As we face a president ial Election Year and prepare for it, it will be an insight that all of us can benefit from. The second is the speaker himself. Our esteemed un w. Professor of americas of history, william crawley, who has just completed 50 years on the faculty of the university of mary washington. During that half century, doctor crawley has contributed in innumerable and significant ways. Certainly not least of all, the creation of our renowned Historic Preservation program and the creation of this amazing great lives series. But it is for his excellence in teaching that he is perhaps best known, and certainly to literally thousands of our students who have come through our halls. He has received our institutions highest honors in teaching, both from his colleagues and from his students. Many of whom, throu
Im the historian at the house. And my job is to collect biographical information on members, gather lists and to conduct oral histories. We answer reference questions in our office that come from on the hill and off the hill and we try to tell the story of the house which is this very big, very Old Institution in a way in which people can kind of connect with it at a human level. We do that through telling biographical stories or clips from oral histories that give people kind of a human sense of a very large institution. And today we thought we would try and do that with you by telling you about the history of women in congress which is a history that dates back to the early 20th century. This is a nifty piece of campaign femora. Its Clare Boothe Luce memorabilia. And Clare Boothe Luce would have been the republican counterpart of helen douglas. She was well known to the general public. Her career really had started as a writer and editor. She later married henry luce, the founder of
1877 to 1929. He explains how and why the United States shifted from generating most of its revenue from regressive consumption tax toss a more direct and progressive tax on North Carolina with the passage of the 16th amendment. The National Archives Center Hosted this event in december 2014. Into. Netanyahu for attending Todays Researcher talk, itch richard mccauley, we host this noontime series. Todays talk is the last in 2014, a year when weve been treated to some splendid presentations by some of the centers most significant researchers. That said, we end the year with a bang by hosting todays guest, Ajay Mehrotra who is discuss his significant and timely book making the modern american if i say ral state, law, politics and the rise of progressive taxation 1877 to 1929 published by Cambridge University press. We will resume this talk these talks on january 15 when we host Rebecca Edwards professor of history and Department Chair at vassar college. Her talk is titled sex on the fron
If you get too much data you actually create a lot of friction in the Decision Making you start shooting a story. Here in moscow now some. Of the headlines stories were tracking this hour 1st pennsylvania avenue guests invited to the white house to donald trump speech at the end of the Republican Convention complained of being heris to as they left the event senator rand paul says he was targeted and wants the f. B. I. To investigate. Senator claims that both he and his wife were set upon by crowds the test was shouted down at them and so pushed the officers with with them ron paul says that he felt their lives are as. They were shouting press you know to stick to killers to hurt us but theyre also saying shouting save her name Briana Taylor. In the black lives matter protesters were demanding that the senate to say the name of Briana Taylor was a black woman who was fatally shot by police in her home it appears they didnt know that ron paul actually sponsored the justice for Briana Ta
Harry dunn was killed in a motorbike collision. A remarkable recovery the teenager who had more than five hours of surgery after splitting herjaw in two in a horse riding accident. Im live in penzance, where as part of the bbcs coastal britain series were looking at the issues facing towns like this as new bbc Analysis Shows People Living in coastal areas are likely to earn considerably less than those living inland. Well be asking why. And coming up on bbc news scotland have set up a Rugby World Cup showdown with japan following a comfortable bonus point win over russia today. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. One of the uks largest travel agents has agreed to buy all thomas cooks stores, in a move that could save thousands ofjobs. Sunderland based hays travel has already hired more than 400 former thomas cook staff. The chain collapsed last month after failing to secure a last minute rescue deal, leaving 150,000 passengers stranded abroad. Our Business Correspondent