Our nations past. Cspan3 created by americas Cable Television companies as a public service. And brought to you today by your television provider. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places. Up next we take you inside the u. S. Capitols house wing where historian Matthew Wasniewski and karen Farar Elliott traced the history of women in congress. This is the first of a twopart program. The story of women in Congress Begins with jeannette ranken elected to the house in 1916 from montana. Shes elected to the house four years before women had the right to vote nationally. And in a way shes really a bridge from the Suffrage Movement to women attaining full political rights. She was active in a National Womens suffrage organization. She helped women get the right to vote, not only in montana, but a couple of states west of the mississippi. And she runs in 1916. Shes elected to one of montanas two at large districts. And part of her platform is that s
The Commonwealth Club of california. I am john zipperer, Vice President of media and editorial and a moderator for this program. We would like to thank our members, donors and supporters for making this and all of our programs possible. We are grateful for their support and we welcome others joined them and supporting the club drink these uncertain times. I am please be joined by brian christian, government author of the new book the alignment problem Machine Learning and human values. His best offer to first get a contribution to the Tech Industry and document in his best bestselling book the most human human and algorithms to live by. In his new book he poses questions such as every content neutral on Artificial Intelligence to solve our problems, what happens when ai itself becomes a problem . With degrees in philosophy, Computer Science and poetry, christian has spent his career tackling the ethical advancing society and become more reliant on technology. His work is got the attent
In a way, shes really a bridge from the Suffrage Movement to women attaining full political rights. She was active in a National Womens suffrage organization. She helped women get the right to vote not only in montana, but a couple of states west of mississippi. She runs in 1916. Shes elected to one of montana s to at large districts. Part of her platform is that shes a pacifist. She sworn into the house on april 2nd, 1917, and the house has come into a special session because Woodrow Wilson delivers a message to Congress Asking for a declaration of war against germany. The u. S. Entry into world war i. When that vote is held, rankin is one of a group of about 50 members votes against u. S. Intervention in world war i. She served a term in the house. She was on the womens suffrage committee. She was on the Public Lands Committee which was an important assignment for a woman from montana, with so much of the lands being held by the federal government. It wasnt important position. She se
Across europe growing infection rates fresh lockdown measures and the inevitable health and Economic Hardship to follow as they head for which there are no easy fixes. From prague in the Czech Republic im now joined by viral of. Me he is from the Czech University of Alive Sciences that the Czech Republic was one of the countries managing actually quite well to keep the pandemic on the controls so whats gone wrong now ok the rest of her all starts to quickly and people i think that in march of 0 the virus during the summer they. Slow the virus came back and now we are under the 2nd wave we chase much stronger than the 1st one but tell us more about the new restrictions and how much public support is there for them. Ok so were going to the new restrictions old school so and pops and james should be close to them today including the school saw from small gates to primary schools and they can do gotten and also the pops and so long people are according to my opinion very tired about this b
What america should be. The northerners who won had an idea of what america should be. The indians and the chinese at out west had ideas about what america should be and certainly the northern men who had won the war had ideas about what the country should be. The critical question as to what it was going to be was who was going to have a say in it. We have gone to that as well, but who had a say in what that new nation was going to be was going to have a dramatic affect on what it eventually became. Today i want to talk about women and womens lives in the late 19th century and their role in what was really the reconstruction, the true rebuilding of the north, south, and the west into a new nation in the wake of the civil war. The story of women is more crucial to that story than most people realize. Most people when they think about womens rights in america start here and you probably know about this from high school, the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 when a number of women came tog