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I want to spend a little bit of time setting that up for you, and then we will move right in to a discussion of some of the issues. For the last couple of weeks weve been talking about the ways that cold war conformity gave rise to new forms of sexual and social order in the first decade or two after the second world war. Weve talked about how the cold war conformity established a white suburban middle class heterosexuality as the domestic ideal and norm in america and how Nuclear Families came to be the kind of central calling card of american normalcy. That, in turn, of course, as we discuss...

Author programs throughout the country. Heres a look at some events this week. On monday, were in michigan at Hillsdale College to talk with several of the schools professors about recent books. On tuesday, at politics and prose book store in washington, dc, nadia lopez will cause her work as a principal at a school in brooklyn, new york. On westerns, Joseph Stiglitz will look at the future of the euro at barnes noble in new york city. On thursday, at the Hampton History Museum in hampton, virginia, four africanamerican women whose compute additions were integral to americas victory in the spa...

Untold story of the black women mathematicians who helped win the space race. Hear her journey about writing this remarkable story that combines the rich intersection of the civil rights era, the space race, the cold war and the movement for gender equality. As an anthropologist with an admiration for history, i was curious about this date, september 8th. What happened with nasa on this date. So september 8th, 1967, the surveyor v launched. 1983, sat com vii launched. And today, september 8th, 2016, Margot Lee Shetterly publicly launches her book [laughter] Hidden Figures into the literary wor...

Were seeing their kid in the iron lung. His mother took him to warm springs where president roosevelt was and learned something about what they did with therapy and for two years when he was two and three massa massaged his legs for an hour a day and kept him from walking. He credits that with the fact he can walk almost without a limp today. Host senator alexander, do you recommend any books to your staff . Yeah, sure. I tell them about the books. I recommend roots to everybody because it is such an essential part of the american story. And the fact that it was such a learning experience for ...

Good morning, everyone. Thank you so much for coming. My name is mike german, a fellow with the Brennan Center for justice at the new york law school. I welcome you to strengthen oversight. This year marks 40th anniversary of the creation of Senate Select committee to study governmental operations with respect to intelligence activities, more simply known as Church Committee after chairman senator church. It was the first and only comprehensive investigation of secret intelligence activities within the United States. This is one of a series of activities that the Brennan Center has undertaken ...