join us every saturday evening at 8:00 p.m. and midnight eastern as we joined students in college classrooms to hear lectures on topics ranging from the american .evolution to 9/11 lectures in history are also available as podcasts. visit our website, c-span.org/history/podcasts, or download them from itunes. on april 2, 1917, jeannette rankin of montana was sworn in as the first woman elected to the u.s. congress. to mark the centennial, here is a brief look at her life and career. >> the story of women in congress begins with jeannette rankin who is elected to the montana.1916 from she is elected to the house for years before four

women had the right to vote nationally. she is a bridge from the to womenmovement attaining full political rights. in a national women's suffrage organization. she helped women get the right to vote, not only in montana, that a couple of states left in mississippi. she runs in 1916, she is elected to one of montana's two at-large districts. part of her platform is that she is a pacifist. on is sworn into the house april 2, 1917. speciale has come into session, extraordinary session because the president, that delivers arow wilson message to congress asking for a declaration of war against germany. it was the u.s. entry into world war i. rankin is one of a

group of about 50 members who votes against u.s. intervention in world war i. house,ved a term and a she was on the women's suffrage committee. she was on the public lands committee, which was an important assignment for a woman from montana, with much of the land teen held by the federal government. it was an important position. she served only one term in the house, she tried to run for senate from montana. she does not get the republican nomination, but she runs as an independent. it is an uphill battle, she gets a fifth of the votes. she goes back to private life and she is involved in women's issues, she is a driving force behind the shepherd counter act, whichnd infancy the house eventually passes in 1921. she is also involved in

international peace organizations. fast-forward to 1940, she runs for congress again, and she runs on a platform to keep the u.s. out of the war in europe. she faced, on december 8, 1941, with a tremendous vote. this is the day after pearl harbor. fdr has come to the house chamber and addressed a joint session of congress. yesterday, december 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. the senate goes back to its chamber and very quickly, unanimously passes a war resolution and the house begins debating, and the house members know that jeannette rankin is a pacifist and she will vote her

conscience. we have some moral histories of people who are in the chamber who recall members going up to voten and asking her to present, not to vote no. she votes her conscience and she opposes the war. she is the lone vote of u.s. with into world war ii japan. that effectively ended her political career. she goes back into private life, is a force in the antiwar movement for another couple of decades. it remarkable career. in 2004 we commissioned a new portrait of jeannette rankin. is sos a person who important in the history and expansion of rights and representation in congress. when we commissioned it, we wanted to show what it was like to come into congress as the first women -- woman, when women don't even have the right to

vote nationally. because it was the 20th century, 19 16, 1917 when she is elected into congress, there is a lot of newspaper coverage. because she is a woman and something of a novelty, there is a lot of coverage of what she is wearing. we know exactly what she is wearing. the portrait shows her in that navy blue dress. we know she was wearing a big hat. we know exactly what the washington post said, so the portrait has her in those close holding the washington post. one of the things that is most interesting is that she is wearing the hat and she is placing that portrait just outside the chamber doors. if we were to enter into that space with her, she would be just about to turn to her right and entered the chamber, at which point she would take off her hat. because hats were not worn in the chamber, even though there woman,h discussion as a should she wear a hat because it is formal attire. a issue not a woman, but

member of congress, and therefore should not wear it. it is decided that she is a member of congress, more than she is heard gender, so she takes it off. all of those things we wanted to put in that portrait, as well as the sense of the fact that she was in the house, but much more a creature of her other interest as well. pacifism, suffrage, all of the issues that were important to her. a somewhat lonely spot to be and to be the only woman, and to take the stance of conscience that put her at odds with other people. sunday night on afterwards, washington times national security complements bill with his book, which examines how modern warfare has evolved. he is interviewed by congress woman of new york. member of the house select committee on intelligence and chair of the armed services subject committee. iwar is a new look at

warfare emerging in the 20th century. i have -- trying for century. i have been all over the world covering these issues. i think it is a reflection of the information age that we are now looking at this new form of warfare, which i call information warfare. i define that as both the technical cyber that we have terms ofuch of, in cyber attacks from the russians and chinese. as well as that content influence type of during -- type of thing, which emerged in the last presidential election which has been called the cyber enabled operation. these two things i believe will be the dominant form of warfare. >> watch afterwards and a night at 9:00 eastern on c-span's book tv. this weekend on the

presidency, historians discuss the relationship between alexander hamilton and george washington. at the new york historical society. here is a preview. >> i want to read you a quote from hamilton. taken twoe often quotes out of context, one quote that hamilton says washington was a shield. immediately, if you are a see, henian, you say used washington, he was only using him, he did not care for him. at one point in hamilton's relationship with washington, washington says to him when he -- when he came to washington, he says i want you to come see me immediately. hamilton says, yes. he runs into the marquis lafayette and stops to chat for a while with this young, very

charming fellow. washington is serious, he says he kept me waiting for 10 minutes and hamilton says, i only kept you waiting for two minutes, sir. washington is unrelenting in his disapproval on hamilton and hamilton is furious. he says that always disliked the interpersonalthe dependence. he added, for three years past i have felt no friendship for him. the truth is, our dispositions are the opposites of each other. the pride of my temperament would not suffer me to profess what i did not feel. said, i have an 18 her old son who says the same thing about me on a regular basis. [laughter] watch the entire program

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