. >>> next, nancy unger, discusses of american history of the 20th century. unger is the author of "bel "belle la follette." >> the humanist of association of the greater sacramento area hosted this event and it is about an hour. >> professor unger asked me if i can give her only a brief introduction. lets see if i can. i would like to pronounce i it it - it -- in research of "bell "belle la follette." she discovered the truth who was denounced by some as disgraceful to the white race. what? disgraceful? she fought for women and peace and civil rights. that was so much more. the most influential of all american women who would have to do with public affairs in this country. today professor nancy unger will help us to belle la follette. [ applause ] >> nancy? >> hello, thank you for that lovely introduction. i have given eight talks to the humanists community of silicon valley and they are one of my favorite audiences because they stay awake and they ask great questions. i am looking forward to this talk. i want to thank you for inviting me to the greater sacr

today, professor nancy unger will help us to know belle la follette, who she really was, and is -- a marvelous model of progressive reform. nancy? >> hello. thank you for that lovely introduction. i have given eight talks to the humanist community of silicon valley, and they are one of my favorite audiences because they stay awake, and they ask great questions. so i h've really been looking forward to this talk. and i want to thank you for inviting me to the humanist association of the greater sacramento area. i especially want to thank phil potts for his positively heroic effort to publicize this talk and to make me feel welcome. i have written this brand-new biography of belle la follette and i am dying to uk that to ta about it, about her as a representative of the many women who contributed significantly to american politics, even long before women had the vote. hillary clinton may well be the first female president, and if she is, she'll deserve the credit for it. but, as clinton herself acknowledges, it took a lot of work by previous women, and some men, to compellingly make the

. >>> next, santa clara university history professor nancy unger, discusses women's ratings rights activists belle, la follette. active in the early 20th centuries. she is the author -- which tell the story of this journalist, suffragist and pacifist who campaigned alongside her husband and son in their own bids for office. the humanist association of the greater sacramento area hosted this event and it's about an hour. >> today's truly delightful speaker, professor nancy unger, asked me if i could give her only a brief introduction. let's see if i can. subject is and i would like to pronounce it, belle la folette, who lived a full life from 1859 to 1931. in doing the research for her new book, nancy discovered that the work of previous historians including herself, had drastically underestimated this great humanist. she discovered the surprising truths about the radical reformer who was denounced by some as disgraceful to the white race. what? disgraceful? she fought for women, peace, civil rights. and for so much more. "the new york times" hailed her as perhaps the least known, most influe

. >>> next, santa clara university history professor nancy unger, discusses an activist who was active in the early 20th centuries. she is the author -- which tell the story of this journalist, suffragist and pacifist who campaigned alongside her husband and son in their own bids for office. the humanist association of the greater sacramento area hosted this event and it's about an hour. >> today's truly delightful speaker asked me if i could give her only a brief introduction. let's see if i can. subject is and i would like to pronounce it, bell la fol et, who lived a full life from 1859 to 1931. in doipg the research for her new book, nancy discovered that the work of previous historians including herself, had drastically underestimated this great humanist. she discovered the surprising truths about the radical reformer who was denounced by some as disgraceful to the white race. what? disgraceful? she fought for women, peace, civil rights. and for so much more. "the new york times" hailed her as perhaps the least known, most influential of all american woman who had to do with public

. >>> next, santa clara university history professor nancy unger,