Mark Rick Atkinson author of the guns at last lights of the war in western europe 1944 to 1945. The Program Starts with an archival newsreel from may of 1945 showing the signing the surrender and the statement from president harry truman. What im this year marks the 75th trying to find a good yeah theory had lived to see this day generalize and how are informed me that the forces of germany have surrendered to the United Nations the flags of freedom fly all over europe for this victory we join in offering our thanks to the providence which is guided and sustained us through the dark days of adversity and into light much remains to be done the victory one in the west must now be one in the east the whole world must be cleansed of the evil from which half the world has been freed. United the peaceloving nation have demonstrated in the west that their arms are stronger by far than the might of dictators or the tyranny of military that once called us salt and wheat the power of our people
Our final speaker of the day is mr. Michael bishop, michael is a consultant of the office of the chairman of the National Endowment of the humanities. Prior to that he served as director of the National Churchill library and center at George Washington university in d. C. He also served as the executive director, of the interNational Churchill society. Some of you, many of you know that the museum is a long standing relationship with the local branch of the Churchill Society. The Churchill Society of new orleans. Im with him being half american, we feel that we can keep covering winston as much as we want. But we certainly enjoyed watching michael, and his affiliates to great work around the country, michael was in charge of putting their 34th and 35th churchill conference together, and we are not quite caught up to that with our International Conferences but being involved in the conferences i know how much of a beast that is. Who here has seen the finest hour . Im sorry the darkest h
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good to see you. we ve been looking at aspects of gilded age and progressive era american life for the last couple weeks. we ve looked at the west we ve looked at the jim crow south. we ve looked at capital and labor and progressive reforms. today we re looking at how the life of one crucially important figure from this period helps the flesh out. and kind of concrete life some of those abstract ideas that we ve been looking at so today we re looking at the life and career theodore roosevelt. not the last time that we ll come back to him in this class. but today kind of just specifically geared toward him. his life does fit the themes of the gilded age progressive era very well, and it s also part of my area of research. so taylor is primarily teaching institution, but all of your faculty are doing research on their own is time permits. and for me, i ve finished writing a book last year on the religious life of theodore roosevelt. so this is a time for me to get to actually t
everybody. good to see you. we ve been looking at aspects of gilded age and progressive era american life for the last couple weeks. we ve looked at the west we ve looked at the jim crow south. we ve looked at capital and labor and progressive reforms. today we re looking at how the life of one crucially important figure from this period helps the flesh out. and kind of concrete life some of those abstract ideas that we ve been looking at so today we re looking at the life and career theodore roosevelt. not the last time that we ll come back to him in this class. but today kind of just specifically geared toward him. his life does fit the themes of the gilded age progressive era very well, and it s also part of my area of research. so taylor is primarily teaching institution, but all of your faculty are doing research on their own is time permits. and for me, i ve finished writing a book last year on the religious life of theodore roosevelt. so this is a time for me to get to