these lessons. as we get through this coronavirus health crisis, hopefully it will pass before long. i hope you and your families are staying safe and healthy there and even though we are doing this using technology, it is great to see you all there. don't forget your paper outlines you to get to the doctor and we will gather for our next remote class when we talk about jimmy carter and ronald reagan. see you then. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you could watch lectures in history every weekend. we take you inside college classrooms to learn about topics ranging from the american revolution to 9/11. that is saturday at midnight eastern on c-span three. the c-span cities tour is

exploring the american story. like many americans, our staff is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. next, a look at one of our cities tour visits. >> we are in the women's hallway of the laramie plains museum and islands and mansion. we begin to tell you the story of why wyoming was so unique, granting women this right to vote, hold property, and elected office. december 10 of 1869, our wyoming territorial legislature dictated this, and it was signed by governor campbell, granting women this act. so remarkable that we have a copy of this. they have it at the capitol, but

we have this copy that is so extraordinary. you can see the writing that said what was happening in the west. because of this act, december 10th, 1869, giving women full rights alongside men, we had the first woman voter in the world, we had the first woman bailiff, martha boys adkinson, the first woman on a jury, and we had all of wyoming's women able to be in the legislature. we had esther hobart morris who was the first woman justice of the peace. we had the first woman governor in the world. all of these were the cattle on keep fallout -- cattle cave fallout from the dissent of 1869. we have a few more mentions of our women who were important, and here we have a great thing where her friends were so worried. she is in the west caught in the suffrage act, and she writes

about it. she says some of my friends are eastern girls, so judge women's suffrage by the english suffrage reports and think any woman who votes must be stressful while a woman who holds office must be a portly beyond hope. i told them about a friend of mine who had recently be in -- been elected to county office and assured them she was nice, modest, and womanly as many of them and probably much shyer. they assured me you could not possibly stay so. you would undoubtedly become bold and mannish in a short time. when we leave this hallway, we are going to go out into the foyer and into the salon, which has been set up as a defensive suffrage. come with me. we are going to go into the drawing room or withdrawing room in the victorian age where they withdrew for special events. we are showcasing a defense of the suffrage act. we have the exhibit set up in

the eye vincennes withdrawing room. here are the eye vincennes, jane and edward, and their adopted daughter maggie. this home -- iversen's, jane and edward, and their adopted daughter maggie. this home is the largest they arrived on the first train in 1868 when there was nothing here. they made their fortune and built this house 24 years later. we have salvaged this house, and then here, we tell history like this ever jacked -- suffrage act. we have december 10, 18 69, the wyoming territorial legislature passing this law -- 1869, th wyoming territorial legislator passing this law. we had just become wyoming territory from dakota territory. we were here, and one of the reasons the legislature did it is they may needed to attract women's of the west. this was cowboys, railroad workers hammering out a railroad. we had the central pacific and from california, the union pacific, and it was.

was fast and furious. we had crazy living conditions. the legislature wanted to attract those women to become and be part of this adventure so they gave them full rights. it was full voting rights, full holding property rights, full political office rights. there's no other state that can claim that. no other territory that can claim that. north dakota and utah like to believe they had the first woman voter, and and they may have, but they voted in restricted elections. wyoming women never had to do that. they were on the same terms with men, which is extraordinary. in here, we have maybe elizabeth cady stanton coming to the salon

to listen about the defensive suffrage, because what happens, it was passed in 1869. in 1871, wyoming was getting so much grief that the legislature was saying maybe we should resend this act. stephen downey, and this is an exhibit of stephen, thinking about this possibly in this salon -- speaking about this possibly in this salon, speaking about these act -- this act. they were given such grief of an act where whitman had downey piece whererkable he spoke to the wyoming public about how important this was that we keep this, that we retain this. it was retained in 1871 by one vote in the legislature. fast-forward 17 years.

wyoming territory is wanting to become a state. washington, d.c. says no one else in the world or in the united states is giving women these kinds of rights. you need to resend that act and -- rescinded that act and we will let you become a state. wyoming said don't care and we will not become a state unless we can hold all of these rights our women have had. when you talk about that wyoming had the first woman voter in the world in 1869, the first them in on a jury in 1870, first women bailiff -- woman bailiff, first women justice of the peace. all of those could happen because wyoming had given that right to women. it is remarkable. it is a fact no one ever knows about. how great is it we can tell this story? this is now 150th anniversary of that gift to women and men by

the men of wyoming territory. >> you could watch this and other programs in the histories of other communities on c-span.org/citiestour. >> this memorial day weekend on american history tv on c-span three. , the 1967real america film discover america, promoting tourism and domestic travel in the u.s.. here too we find the ancient stones of old castillo. spanish forces. dear by the spot where centuries leone daile

pushed on. >> a historic landmark neighborhood in mobile, alabama. to get backe want home. we need you to go and negotiate to get whatever it takes to get us out of here. every friday when it came time to get paid that money went to food, clothing, and shelter. they never had any discretionary money. they came to the resolve that they would stay in this community. they didn't understand the language, custom, they made a way out of no way. culture,toms, their they said this is about africa town. . >> at the end of world war ii

millions of servicemen and women returned to the united states foreign experience of a lifetime. 1945, welcome home, a war department film designed to show the public what the veterans have been through. how it may have changed them, and how their newly acquired skills may be useful in the postwar economy.