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Impact on the legal and political world. She was a champion of human rights, womens rights in particular, throughout her long and shatterbarring career. I had three strikes against me. One, i was jewish, two, i was a woman, but the killer was that i was the mother of a 4yearold child. Reporter so how did she rise to the highest court in the country . Coming up this sunday morning, the notorious r. B. G. , Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Pauley from that sad night, it is on to raising the curtain on the new season in entertainment and the arts. A new season so different from those past, you might as well ...

Also successfully taken place the summer opera is back on stage but outdoors like last week in naples with soprano on another trip coming tosca the orchestra members were seated far apart and there was no stage set. In for rona to the approach was less opulent with fewer people in the audience. Their ideas have audiences in their own cars like at this drive in concert in switzerland so theres a lot to recommend outdoor performances. So from the street from not produce street we are back. Into history but outdoor concerts arent an option for the winter months so organizers have to come up with ...

The cspan cities tour travels the country exploring the american story as we c takec booktv and American History tv on the road with the support of local Cable Television provider we visited 24 cities in the last year and over the next two hours we will looknd at highlights frm some of these stops we began our special feature in milwaukee. So this is a photograph of the lynching that occurred august 7, 1930 in marion, indiana. James cameron to a 16 was supposed be the third person hanging from the tree but he survived the lynching. His friends, abe and tommy, were killed that day by a mob esti...

President ial library, down in the stacks. We are in the most secure area in our facility. This is the vaults. More thanere we keep 1600 documents written by Abraham Lincoln as well as many of the pieces he owned, objects he owned that he and directed with during his lifetime. I want to show you some books that we have in our collection that were very special to Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln whenraham he was elected president in 1860, its not as if he was entirely unknown. He was a four term member of the legislature. He had served a term in congress. He was one of the most prominent politicians fr...

Hi. Pleasure to introduce Rachelle Friedman who is going to be talking to you about innovations in art during world war ii. This is rachelles second year coming to the conference, she was here last year, we are really excited to have her back and excited to hear her presentation on art. So please join me in welcoming rachelle. [ applause ] good morning and thank you, everybody. Its a real pleasure to be here. Last year you heard i was sitting in your spot and it was a really profitable conference and when the call came out to present about innovations in world war ii i was happy to answer that...