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Capitol and saw these pages and thought, wow, what a great opportunity this would be and saw they were all boys and was told, well, we just dont feel like this is the place for girls to operate. And i at that age between sixth and seventh grade said, well thats just not fair. He said, well, maybe we can do something about that. So when i went back to school in the fall, i wrote letters to mr. Albert. And wrote letters to mr. Albert and wrote letters to mr. Al berd for many years, and finally one...

Farah elliott. Were in one of the oldest parts of the capitols house wing. We call it the new house wing, but it was really built in 1857. And this spot is an ideal place to talk about Historic Events in the capitol and the artifacts the broad sweep of history and the collection we have that matt and i work with and interpret all the time. So today we want to tell you about the history of the house page program. It has a history going back to the early 1800s. We dont actually know when the first...

Im fara eelliott. Were in one of the oldest parts of the capitols house wing. We call it the new house wing, but it was really built in 1857. And this spot is an ideal place to talk about Historic Events in the capitol and the artifacts that we have in the collection that matt and i work with and interpret all the time. Zb so today we want to tell you about the history of the house page program. It has a history going back to the early 1800s. We dont actually know when the first pages served in ...

Im matthew wasniewski, a historian of the house of representatives. Im farar elliott, a curator. We are here in the historic space. The ceremonial office, one of the oldest parts of the capitols house wing. There was built in 1857. This spot is an ideal place to talk about Historic Events in the capitol. In the artifacts we have in the collection that matt and i interpret all the time. We want to tell you about the history of the house page program, which is a history going back to the early 180...

How fractious the chamber is. And there are several folks in here yelling to be heard, trying to make their point, and right in the front theres a little page, and he is looking towards where some of the yelling is going on, and he is silhouetted. And one of the things he is there for is so we know, oh, confusion as to why this is happening is part of whats going on here. This isnt regular. According it might well be regular, but according to the London Illustrated news, this is unusual because ...

Walk into primetime years its what state december eighteen here in korea flight from seoul and you can hang them from when they do so much for joining us. We begin with the latest on the ongoing nationwide rail strike which the government wants brought to an immediate and email the union of cargo truck driver says it wont take up rates. Its not being delivered because of the strike price in sydney and has to be counts the government is taking a hardline stance on the nationwide released right th...

Host booktv is on the campus of Duke University in durham North Carolina where we are talking with professors and scholars about some of their books and now joining us here is Deborah Hicks. Her book the road out a teachers odyssey in poor america. Deborah hicks what you do at duke first of all . Guest i have a couple of things that i do. I am part of their research into called social Science Research and that is a unit that is composed of people whore doing research in the social sciences and d...

That was after words, book tv Signature Program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, Public Policy makers, legislators, and others familiar with their material. To the group of poor girls in cincinnati, ohio. A 30 minute interview as part of tvs college series. Booktv is on the campus of Duke University in durham, North Carolina, where we are talking assessors and scholars about whether books. Joining us here is deborah hicks. Her book, trend seven the ...

History. I grew up as an appalachian girl, working class in a tiny little town and i was the first in my family to go to college, which was a very big step for me and ended up through a scholarship from a Group Getting a scholarship going to college and doing super well in college and ended up finally after a lot of stumbles and falls going on getting a graduate degree from harvard and that journey that i experience myself came back to North Carolina and founded this nonprofit. Host when you say...

The hangar. And putting an end to torture and help the victims. We begin tonight in ukraine. Its been almost two months since crimea voted to leave the country. Today, two other regions voted on increased autonomy. It took a violent turn when gunmen tried to break up the vote in one city. Amateur video shows the moments shots were fired. Take a look. [ gun shots ] the man you just saw in this video was tended to by the crowd but at least one person is believed to have decide, a prorussian separa...