This was the first of a twopart program, you can view this and all other american artifacts programs at her website, cspan. Org history. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next we take you inside thes house wing of the u. S. Capital to learn about the history of women in congress. And second of a twoFarar Elliott program we continue the story beginning in the 1940s with republican congresswomen Clare Boothe Luce. Im Farar Elliott curateor for the house of representatives, which means i take care of the artwork and objects that document the houses rich heritage. Im Matthew Wasniewski and historian at the house. And my job is to collect biographical information on members, to gather data and historic lists, and to con dpdu oral histories. We 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
Good thursday morning, everyone. At this hour we still dont know who the next president will be. More votes are being counted in the states that will decide the election. Heres the electoral map. With 270 need to the win, 253. Thats where biden is. Some states too close to call. Pennsylvania, a must win for trump, his lead shrinking as more mailin votes are counted in the urban areas. Arizona, bidens lead has been shrinking in phoenix. Georgia, 3,000 votes per hour are being counted in atlanta, a democratic stronghold. Now to nevada. Another nailbiter but no new results overnight and across the country anxiety is growing. This morning, frustrations mounting as america anxiously waits for election results. [ crowd chanting ] in portland, oregon, a riot declared overnight and the National Guard called in after protests turned violent. Earlier a peaceful crowd marched across a portland overpass with a sign reading count every vote. In new york at least 20 arrested after a large election p
The president has a sixpoint lead in pennsylvania in the Trump Campaign has declared victory and claimed pennsylvania 20al electoral votes. President trump is ahead of joe biden by 1 North Carolina and the president is leading biden by 1. 5 in georgia. The foxnews decision desk says joe biden one the state of arizona and 11 electoral votes. The Trump Campaign is adamant they will protect the integrity of the selection and they will be able to declare victory in arizona by the end of this week. Just over 600,000 votes remain to be counted the president is behind only 93000 votes there. President trump expressing his frustration with the delay and states calling many of those races last night after results showed him leading in a number of the states. Heres whatt President Trump sad earlier today. This is a fraud on the American Public, this is an embarrassment to our country, we were getting ready to win this election, frankly we did win this election. [cheering] our goal now is to ensu
Africanamerican representation in the 20th century and have a lot of artifacts from the house collection that have to do with that and a lot of history to cover. And the last africanamerican sort of to be eleshgted in the 19th century leaves in 1901, george white of north carkarcar and a long time before another africanamerican comes into the house. Oscar depriest from illinois. We have a couple of really rare artifacts from Oscar Depriest from the 1920s and 30s. But before i launch into them, because i love them so much, matt, tell us a little bit about Oscar Depriest and how he got into congress. So theres a long period. Almost three decades after George Henry White leaves congress where theres no africanamericans who serve in either the house or the senate. And that has everything to do with the jim crow laws that go on the books in the south, and the way that that changes over time during those decades, theres a critical thing going on in the south where africanamericans begin to l
Is still being done. Todays talk is the eighth this calendar year and we have one more in november when we will hear from charles stuart, Political Science professor at m. I. T. , longtime friend and supporter of this center who will talk about his coauthored book about electing the senate and direct democracy before the 17th amendment. That ought to be a pretty good talk. I have been looking forward to hosting todays guests. Since i first saw her in action at last years policy history conference chairing a panel that included members and that will include a tax historian who is in the audience today. Thank you for attending, carl. And we will hear from carl soon. Molly is an associate professor of history at Washington University and received her ph. D. Degree from the university of michigan. She is the author of the highly regarded tax and spend, the welfare state, tax politics, and the limits of american liberalism. She will also Say Something about her current book project which bu