it's hard to imagine harriet tuchman, moses leading people to freedom. then you saw that picture and there's a look at her i. it was a style. >> for me, imagery is really what helps history come alive to me. i first got interested in history, looking at all old photographs as a little kid, wondering, what were their lives like? where they happy? where they treated fairly? for me, photographs and the visual literacy, that we can help america have, it's so important because it builds upon the amazing scholarship of the written word. i have always thought if i ever have one of those formal portraits ever painted, i want a photograph of -- >> i remember those same types of experiences, looking at old photographs, family photographs, and one that has been interesting, and i don't know if you've had this experience recently, of older generations telling you about things that relate to what is happening now. one of the first photographs, i remember being horrified about it and wondering, seeing my mother's brother in a casket. it was a big funeral. as a child w

the two most famous black women who were part of this was sojourner truth and harriet tuchman. neither truth nor tuchman visited the western states but the movement in which they were involved obviously engaged all of the intent -- attention of the western women well before the civil war in 1865. >> karen nation, temperance. finally a westerner or is she? carrie nation is most famous for spearheading the temperance movement. that is the battle against alcohol abuse in pre-prohibition america. she was in kansas and kansas was considered a western state at that time. would we now call it a midwestern state? i would think. she was particularly noteworthy because she would go into salutes with that hatchet and smash bottles. don't you love it? in 1880, she was backed by the national women's christian temperance union and also the governor of kansas. they passed legislation making kansas the first state in the union to be dry. i can't imagine, you think about towns like dodge city. they are always in these western. there is a saloon on every corner. but it is the first state to go d