And follow us on twitter. Next on American History tv. Lectures in history. Next, university of michigan that are that jones talks about a female slave who killed her owner after repeated Sexual Assaults. The class discusses the options she may have had and looks at involvement of her fellow slaves and white neighbors in the course case. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Today we began the discussion we started a couple of weeks ago and in particular. Enslaved women. We have already had a chance to look at the case of oh Harriet Jacobs, one of the best remembered of the slave narratives. Jacobs introduced us, if you will to the dimension of slavery thats especially illustrated, exemplified. We might say central to the experience of slave women. Thats Sexual Violence. Well come back a little bit to talk about jacobs in comparison to our case today that of celia. We have also looked at the wpa narratives. One of the things we noticed about those narratives is you will recall the extent to
Different ways. Woodruff and, my conversation with Army Staff Sergeant ryan pitts, who today received the medal of honor for his actions during one of the most ferocious battles of the afghan war. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill there were small signs of progress today in the wake of the Malaysian Airlines disaster over Eastern Ukraine. After an international outcry, rebels finally allowed remains of many of the 298 victims to leave the crash site. Their plane was shot out of the sky last week. Neil connery, of independe
Big part of the city in many different ways. Woodruff and, my conversation with Army Staff Sergeant ryan pitts, who today received the medal of honor for his actions during one of the most ferocious battles of the afghan war. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill there were small signs of progress today in the wake of the Malaysian Airlines disaster over Eastern Ukraine. After an international outcry, rebels finally allowed remains of many of the 298 victims to leave the crash site. Their plane was shot out of the sky last wee
Different ways. Woodruff and, my conversation with Army Staff Sergeant ryan pitts, who today received the medal of honor for his actions during one of the most ferocious battles of the afghan war. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. And the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions and. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill there were small signs of progress today in the wake of the Malaysian Airlines disaster over Eastern Ukraine. After an international outcry, rebels finally allowed remains of many of the 298 victims to leave the crash site. Their plane was shot out of the sky last week. Neil connery, of independe
Love with eniac. He knew what it could do. Then it was this very wonderful thing where he taught clarie how to program it. There was a debate of who so what first, but somebody saw that they were designing the institute machine and writing code for it. But the machine was not ready. Someone said, we can rewire eniac and run programs on the eniac. They spent six weeks rewiring it and getting it to run. That was the origin of modern software. And that was such a fruitful time. So it was a mixture of their marriage, the coding. And she had no training whatsoever . She did have training. During the war, when johnny went off to england to do what, we do not know . She was left behind in princeton. Women could apply and get a wartime job. Hers was at the center for Population Research at princeton university. Her job was modeling populations of people. What would happen if you created a new state in the middle east or something . They model growth of population. That is what you needed to so