All eyes turned to Washington, D.C., on Thursday for the Senate testimony of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and that of Christine Blasey Ford, who accuses him of sexual assault, which he denies. History suggests that what happens there could have an impact even beyond the Supreme Court confirmation process.
In 1991, when Anita Hill testified during a similar hearing that then-nominee Clarence Thomas has sexually harassed her when they worked together, the results of that day contributed to 1992 seeing a record number of women elected to Congress. You can click here to read more about how 1992 became the "Year of the Woman."
Here's more of the history that made news this week:
"You hear women in the present saying that men should take responsibility, but men were given responsibility for millennia and they didn't do it very well."
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FROM THE TIME VAULT
Oct. 21, 1991: ‘Sex, Lies & Politics’
“Anita Hill's accusations against Clarence Thomas raised the question of sexual harassment to national prominence, only to reduce it again to its toughest and most intractable kernel: her word against his. Neither Hill nor Thomas was able to bring decisive evidence before the committee last week to support their widely differing versions of their dealings in the past. Thus the evidence of character counts all the more heavily. But even that appeared to weigh equally on both sides. Based on their backgrounds, Hill and Thomas seemed to be the two least likely people in the world to be involved in an exchange of accusations about sexual misconduct or false charges. Both have devoted their lives to hard work and public service. He is said to be sensitive to women. She has a reputation for integrity. One of them is lying.” (Oct. 21, 1991)
“In a generation of change so rapid that the pace cannot be appreciated, the American self-picture has gone out of focus. The intellectuals, to whom a society looks for its picture, understandably failed to keep up. In the 1930s they were looking backward at the ruin that war, depression and fascism had made of the 19th century's high confidence in rationality, progress and perfectibility. Some clung stubbornly to fragments of the exploded dream. More, resolving never again to be taken in by progress, settled for a program of anti-regression; economic stability and antifascism were timid goals. Since World War II, the intellectual climate has been changing. Social scientists, drawn back to the exciting and challenging present, have begun to update the future." (Sept. 27, 1954)
“To much of the nation, it seemed that [George] Wallace had acted out a charade, then abjectly surrendered. But not to most white Alabamians, who admired their Governor more than ever as a doughty little defender of segregation. In that atmosphere came the opening this month of Alabama's public elementary and high schools. Birmingham, Mobile, Tuskegee and Huntsville were scheduled to start their integration. Wallace got state troopers, in cars with tags emblazoned by the Confederate flag, to interfere with integration in all four cities.” (Sept. 27, 1963)
San Francisco Threat For Collectors Weekly, Hunter Oatman-Stanford looks at the city of San Francisco’s housing crisis with the help of historical maps, ads and other documents.
Light Up In light of concern over teen e-cigarette use, Sarah Milov writes at the Washington Post about how the tobacco industry enticed young consumers in the past.
“The Gardener”Jason Daley writes for Smithsonian.com about how an expert on Vincent van Gogh came to believe that he has identified the previously unknown subject of a portrait by the artist.
Intense TentsIn the U.K., an organization is attempting to reconstruct part of Henry VII’s tents, in which he stayed when traveling, and Dalya Alberge has the story at The Guardian.
Teenage YearsAshwini Tambe writes at The Conversation about what the history of the idea of adolescence indicates about the idea that “boys will be boys.”
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