lindy boggs.he had been elected, at first she had been elected to the seat that her husband phil burton had held after his death. she was dying of cancer. she was friends of nancy pelosi. she called nancy pelosi when she was very close to death and set -- said that she hoped she would run for seat and that sally burton would endorse her. which was a huge gift, given she was the incumbent and all the democrats would want to run for this seat in san francisco. that was what nancy pelosi -- nancy pelosi told me she would've never thought about running without her delivering that message. it seems funny, because she seems like such a natural pol in some ways, she's from a political family. but she said it had never crossed her mind until she encouraged her to run. she ran in a wild race in san francisco. 14 candidates in this big, sprawling primary. won narrowly over harry brit. since then has not lost an election. host: what was the house like when she arrived? guest: the house was overwhelmingly mal

. >> state of ohio representative, kristen boggs, lives two blocks from where golsby kidnapped reagane parolees in the area, and connected the dots? >> well, had that information been available to our law enforcement, yeah, i think that, that could -- that could have happened. >> after reagan's murder, boggs decided to investigate and, possibly, legislate. she discovered that gps monitors can be and sometimes are, set up to send alerts if an offender violates a curfew or moves into a restricted area. but in golsby's case, boggs says ohio's department of rehabilitation and correction, or drc, told her this. >> they put a gps monitor on him, but they didn't have any exclusionary zones affiliated with that monitor, they didn't have any curfews affiliated with that monitor. >> so, no geographic restrictions and no curfew programmed into it. what is the point of it? >> exactly. >> is part of it supposed to be a deterrent of some kind? >> i think drc believed that placing a gps monitor on him would curtail his criminal activity but it didn't. >> the reality is nobody is monitoring him elect

her co-author, rebecca boggs roberts, has been many things, journalist, producer, tour guide, forensic anthropologist, event planner, political consultant, jazz singer and radio talkshow host. currently the curator of programming to planet world, a new museum in the franklin school in downtown washington. roberts is here in washington dc with her husband, 3 sons and a big fat dog, these two women have been friends since childhood and took the risk to write a book. how the suffrage movement drove institutional change, and what can we learn from that. take it away, rebecca boggs roberts and lucinda robb. >> this year's the one hundredth anniversary of the eighteenth amendment which granted women the vote, removed gender as an obstacle to voting and with all that is going on in 2020 there has never been a better time to look back at the suffrage movement and see what lessons it teaches today. it was a very long movement, over 70 years that went on three generations. they lived a long time. many leaders went into their 80s, sojourner truth, elizabeth cady stanton and susan b anthony live t

lucinda robb and rebecca boggs roberts have joined together to write a book called "the suffragist playbook". you will learn about this book but more important you will learn about the suffragists, what they did and how they did it, the encouraging things and discouraging things as they were working on it. the idea is that we can learn a lot from suffrage justs, the first to do a parade down pennsylvania avenue, the first to pick at the white house and we see that it is commonplace. let me tell you about these women. lucinda robb was project director for our mothers before us at the center for legislative archives and this project rediscovered thousands of overlooked original documents and helped to organize the national archives celebration of the nineteenth amendment in 1995. she lived with her husband, 3 children, one small dog, and 500 pence dispensers which you will see. her co-author, rebecca boggs roberts, has been many things, journalist, producer, tour guide, forensic anthropologist, event planner, political consultant, jazz singer and radio talkshow host. currently the curator of

. >> today we have two extraordinary people who are with us, lucinda robb and rebecca boggs roberts who had joined together to write a book called "the suffragist playbook." if you can take a look here, you will learn about this book more important you will learn about the suffragists and what they did, how they did it, some of the encouraging things and some of the discouraging things as they were working on it. so the idea is that we can learn a lot from suffragists, and that the suffragists were the first to do a parade down pennsylvania avenue, the first to picket the white house, now we see that as commonplace. so let me tell you about these two women. lucinda robb was a project director for our mothers before us, women in democracy, 1789-1920 at the center for legislative archives. and this project we discovered thousands of overlooked original documents, and really she helped to organize the national archives celebration of the 75th anniversary of the 19th amendment in 1995. she lives in virginia with her husband, three children, one small dog, and more than 500 has dispensers wh

author of a garden for the president and former first daughter susan ford and lucinda rob and rebecca boggsroberts heirs to two prominent political families to talk about stuff for just -- suffragist strategy to win the vote for relevance today. watch american history tv every weekend and find a schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime, c-span.org/history. >> recently on american history tv a debate between educating for american democracy project author danielle allen and critic mark bauerline of emory university on the best way to teach american history. >> why is it you think teachers are teaching this from a liberal frame and that has gotten a vote and you spin your career at higher-rated university emory, freshman seminars discussed but is it possible most secondary teachers in america are not particularly interested in going there? what would you say? >> you would know more about those lower grades than i would. you think the social studies teaching profession is nonpartisan? that there is not an ideological slant in social studies teachers, professional organizations? >

eastern listen to rock and rebecca boggs roberts talk about the suffragist playbook which was the strategy and tactics used by suffragist to win the vote for women and how they are relevant today. >> booktv features lady authors discussing their latest nonfiction books. on sunday july at noon eastern on "in depth" carol swain vice chair of the 1776 commission and former professor joined us for live discussion talk about critical race theory, the 1619 project, immigration and her most recent book, black eye for america. at 11 p.m. eastern in his book the afghanistan papers the "washington post" craig whitlock uses official documents and original reporting to examine america's twenty-year war in the country. watch american history tv and booktv every weekend on c-span2 and find a full schedule on y

rock and rebecca boggs roberts talk about the suffragist playbook which was the strategy and tactics used by suffragist to win the vote for women and how they are relevant today. >> booktv features lady authors discussing their latest nonfiction books. on sunday july at noon eastern on "in depth" carol swain vice chair of the 1776 commission and former professor joined us for live discussion talk about critical race theory, the 1619 project, immigration and her most recent book, black eye for america. at 11 p.m. eastern in his book the afghanistan papers the "washington post" craig whitlock uses official documents and original reporting to examine america's twenty-year war in the country. watch american history tv and booktv every weekend on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or visit c-span.org. >> historian and cultural critic, distant with professor of american studies and founding director at trinity college, the author of modernity, the great migration and coeditor of the essay collection from new york, the new negro renaissance. he has received grants and fe

i'm rebecca boggs roberts and i'm here with jane campbell. we are cosponsoring the problem tonight. pop them into the q and a box was i will turn it over to my colleague terry to introduce john. >> host: we are pleased to cosponsor the conversation with a dedicated historian and lightning us with new information and maybe new theories, especially that of the 7 strategies. we love that because as local historians in connecticut were many important figures of the american revolution came from as well as the few battles fought in many connecticut farmers who fit the continental army we always want to learn more. john ferling is a professor at the university of west georgia where he taught about the revolution, founders and military history, he's written 13 books and many journal articles on the politics and tactics of the american revolution in our early republic. he's a biographer of george washington and john adams. i can read the names of his books and awards but i prefer to tell you more about john the man. although john's parents were from west virginia, he groping galveston, texa

first of all we knew this wouldn't work out because look at him, he is literally i tentacle to randall boggsmost important thing. secondly, the letter that went around from the ceo of jeopardy that said that show is untenabl now, it's because he had completely in the dark as to what was happening and who was running the ship, which means seems to me like the federal government right now, if that was announced to overhaul all o jeopardy, i feel like can we ge a move on in the white house. it needs to be levar burton, hands down, no contest, 100 percent. he made a show about reading successful. reading rainbow was the best show of all-time spread. >> i think, is this the fastest cancellation of all times? usually you like have a career in then if you're canceled, i mean this guy went from who is mike richards to three hours later screw that guy, his stuff is canceled. he had three hours in the sun. >> that dude at snl come up. >> shane gillis. the day that he got the phone call, the next day they got another phone call. about that job. get the thing i think is unfair is people post this story

these particular boggs before becoming covid experts, they were agriculture detective dogs. their specialty in customs was, i kid you not, sniffing out laul wilt. which is apparently terrible for avocado trees. so it's their job to sniff agricultural products and find out if anybody was accidentally bringing laurel wilt into the country. but now they're off laurel wilt, the laurel wilt beat, leaving that to other pups. and these dogs are retrained to find covid instead. here's if pro moss to florida university chemistry professor explaining how it works training the dogs. while he explains it, watch closely. some of you might be doing the dishes. watch this, see if you can spot the important visual element here while he is talking? >> when you get covid-19, you get vocs. they're what the dog detects. >> reporter: researchers at fiu trained the dogs to detect covid-19 by using face masks from covid patients. >> we use ultraviolet light to kill the virus. the odor is still there. >> he explains they are so good as sniffing out covid-19 infections, sniffing out the volatile org

he's currently a foreign affairs adviser to the law firm squire patton boggs.e thank you all three for being back with us at the "newshour." robert grenier, let me start with you. as we mentioned, you were in southwest asia when 9/11 happened. you were there watching this unfold. looking back, did the u.s. make the right moves at that time? >> i think we did. we often talk about the u.s. invasion of afghanistan. in fact, it really wasn't an invasion at all. we only had a few hundred special forces operators and intelligence officers who were on the ground in afghanistan, very importantly, aided by u.s. close air support. but we came in very much with the idea that we needed to aid anti-taliban afghans to take charge of their own future. we departed from that model very seriously later on, but i think that we started out in the right way. >> woodruff: and corey shaoqi, you, as i mentioned, joined the bush administration. but it was after 9/11 when you did. reflecting on that time, were the right decisions made? >> you know, i think we made a lot of mistakes, act

. >> today we have two extraordinary people who are with us, lucinda robb and rebecca boggs roberts who had joined together to write a book called "the suffragist playbook." if you can take a look here, you will learn about this book more important you will learn about the suffragists and what they did, how they did it, some of the encouraging things and some of the

grace lee boggs, a chinese american activist. >> reporter: the university even invited her to createorter: you okay? >> yeah, no. i haven't been able to really like even look at this because it -- it means a lot, you know. these are the stories and everything that i really yearned for throughout my life. and then to have the honor of being in the position to actually create it and to create something that's so everlasting, i'm just very honored. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning," adriana diaz, pittsburgh. >> wow. >> a big thank you to jasmine. so many things that we didn't -- i didn't know and that we're all learning. that's why these kind of stories are so important. i'm so glad that adriana did that one for us. >> the notion that, you know, we have people who contributed to the fabric of our society, and we don't know their names the way we know other names. >> right. >> i like when they said, "but it's a cookie." so serious, "it's a cookie." in the struggle is the art. >> making a difference. >>> on our podcast we are joined by brett schulman, co-founder and ceo of the k the res