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Senate in 1919 and ratified in 1920. Here we are 100 years later. The 116th congress has the highest the percentage of women making up roughly a quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speaker for the second time. And we have four women so far running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women and the key turning points for women in american politics. I want to introduce our panelists and then well come back through and have each of them talk about the books or the period of time they are writing about for about five minutes. And then well open up the conversation ...

And philadelphia. Good morning everyone. Welcome to this mornings discussion, from the moscow with. To nancy pelosi. Around the table on women, wielding the political power. Im Greta Brawner from cspan, American History tv, on cspan three every weekend. Its happy to coordinate with the organization of american historians to moderate this panel discussion, and of course it could not come at a better moment in history, with the 19th minute granting the women the right to vote. Passed by that u. S. House in the un that senate in 19, and ratified in 1920. If we are 100 years later, the 116th congr...

Women yielding political power. Im with cspan, American History on tv on cspan 3 every weekend is happy to coordinate with the organization of american historians to moderate this panel discussion. And of course it could not come at a better moment in history with the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote passed by the house u. S. And u. S. Senate in 1919 and then ratified in 1920. Here we are a hundred years later, the 116th congress has the highest percentage of women ever making up a roughly quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speakr for the second time, and we have four...

Congresswoman claire booth luce. Im a curator for the house of representatives and that means i take care of a lot of the artifacts, the artwork, the objects that document the houses rich heritage. Im the historian at the house and my job is to collect biographical information on members, gather data and historic lists, we answer reference questions from 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 kind of connect with it at a human level. So we do that through tellin...

Amendment, using political cartoons and images of suffragists picketing the white house, she explores the National Womens Party Tactics under the leadership of alice paul. Im the curator of votes for women. Im standing in front of what we call our title treatment. Its a large blowup of a hedwig reicher, a germanborn actress. The allegorical figure that represents the United States during the conclusion of the parade in washington, d. C. Thats just one event of the long Suffrage Movement this exhibition highlights. We have 124 objects that goes into the long history begininng in 1832 bringing i...