History

Sandra Dooley, with the Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance (VSCA), a project of the League of Women Voters of Vermont Education Fund, previews a celebratory event to commemorate the 101st anniversary of women getting the vote: "Hard Won, Not Done: Voting Matters" takes place Saturday, August 14 at the State House Lawn. The program will coalesce around four themes: immigrant voting, enfranchisement, queer inclusion, and municipal voting with the goal to inspire attendees to value and support the right to vote for all. As part of a line up of inspiring women, keynoter Annette Gordon-Reed, historian, Harvard professor, Pulitzer-prize author will be in attendance.

Cuba is on the front burner. As Cuban protesters against the Cuban government crowd the streets of Havana, Cuban American protesters crowd the streets in Miami calling for USA intervention in the island. Reminding the world of the Cold War hostility toward Cuba in Washington, the Mayor of Miami calls upon President Biden to act for regime change in Havana or to bomb the Cuban capitol. In this discussion led by Sandy Baird, founder of the Cuban American Friendship Society, we explore why the embargo and blockade of Cuba in place since 1961 has lasted so long, what President Biden's policies will be toward Cuba and how we can support the Cuban people in these times of pandemic, deprivation, and economic disaster.

Friederich Von Germann was a Hessian Captain, one of many German auxiliaries hired by King George III during the American Revolution. He arrived in the colonies in 1775 and was present at Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga. During the war, he painted a series of watercolors of German, British, and American Troops. Robert Grandchamp shares about these paintings that are frequently used as sources for American Uniforms.

My Brother's Keeper student, Boniface Ndikumwenayo, Olivier Abedi, and Germain Noble interact with people on the street about the new declaration of Juneteenth as a national holiday.