rubin talks about the speech bank, an online archive to preserve speeches by women that, in her opinion, have been overlooked or forgotten. the archive includes those by queen elizabeth ii, barbara jordan it is only in recent times we have credited at all or paid attention to what women had to say and we have a large general cultural assumption women were not the best speakers, that women were not speaking, that women were silent. in general, it is true that women did not speak as much as men for a variety of reasons but it is not true they were not speaking. in fact, women have been speaking, hundreds of them, thousands of them, but we have not had access to their words. announcer: donna rubin sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. you can listen to q&a and all of our ♪ >> the book, "hitler's american gamble" describes five days that upended everything including december 7 through december 11, 1941 from the attack on pearl harbor to the declaration of war on the united states. tracing development in real-time, historians reveal how america's engagement was far from inevitable. the professors quote the late church biographer martin gilbert saying "hitler's decision to decla