american history tv on c-span3 every saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. lectures in history is also available as a podcast. find it where you listen to podcasts. the u.s. capitol has been home to the house and senate since 1800. but it is their home districts and states that send members to washington, d.c. over the next 90 minutes, a look at pivotal u.s. politicians as we travel the nation in search of their stories. coming up first, u.s. congressman and senator, former wisconsin governor, and 1924 progressive party presidential candidate, robert fighting bob lafollette. there is work for everyone. it is large. it is a glorious service. this service for the country, the call comes to every citizen. it is an un-ending struggle to make and keep government representative. bob is probably the most important political figure in wisconsin history, and one of the most important in the history of the 20th century in the united states. he was a reforming governor he defined what
a long delayed wins. i president joe biden as the u. s. congress passes his trillion dollar infrastructure bill. we report from burundi with floods and rising waters of the space more than a 100000 people in recent years. and the political crisis facing bosnia herzegovina that could unravel the peace deal which ended the war that 26 years ago. ah, now the un security council has called for an end to the fighting in ethiopia. but amusing to discuss, the crisis has been postponed until next week. each year appears a year long conflict with rebels from the northern tiguan region has westland in recent days and now 9 opposition groups abroad have formed an alliance against prime minister. i ll be off bed. my counter reports from the united nations fall from the fields of conflict, ethiopia and opposition groups gather in washington, dc. 9 group sign an agreement to work together with the expressed intention of removing the ethiopian government by negotiation or force it to appear
post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. good evening, everyone. my name s liz, i m a member of the event staff, and i would like to welcome you all this evening to politics and prose at the wharf. just a quick note before we get started, now would be a great time to silence cell phones, feel free to take flash-free photography. tonight we re here to welcome hendrik meyer for his new book, arthur vandenberg, the man in the middle of the american century. when arthur vandenberg assumed his seat as a republican senator from michigan in 1928, he was an outspoken opponent of the new deal and a staunch isolationist. by the end of his life, he was one of the key architects of the american postwar foreign policy. in this comprehensive biography, meij is er charts the course. reporter, editor and executive producer of the documentary america s senator: the unexpected odyssey of arthur vandenberg. he ll be in conversation with a journalist, brookings fellow and th
women were being told to go back to some of those more traditional roles. all of those things, including the arrival of television and major league baseball on television helped to bring about an end to the all-american girls professional baseball league. if we look at the impact of african-americans, women, japanese-americans, any other group you could possibly think of, if we start to pick that apart, if we start to look at their actual role in winning the war, in surviving the war in some cases, we start to see a more full picture of what life was like for people involved in the war and those who were involved, even on the periphery. when we started this conversation today, this discussion today, we talked about the fact that total war, that war was this completely all-consuming thing, that it was not just about two ar ms. shooting at one another. we started to think about that and what that meant and how can we further understand world war ii if we bring all these pieces
they became doctors and lawyers. one became the first female manager of any department at northrop airlines. they became principals, surgeons, politicians, pilots, and they were able to do that because they had access to professional baseball. so when i asked them what did it mean to you to play in the league and they say everything, it s exactly right. what did it mean for this country and the efforts of these women to help during wartime? it meant everything. i ve asked a number of these women, so, what was it like to have to play baseball in a dress? of course their answers varied. some i can repeat. some i can t. basically the message is we would have played naked, whatever it took. we got to play baseball and we truly believe we helped keep baseball alive during the war. as i said, the league ended in 1954. it lasted 11 years. the league expanded over that 11 years from four teams to 12 teams. it s possible that the expansion maybe happened too quickly. i think the fact