Modern european and world history. A native of kansas city, missouri, proctor holds degrees in journalism and history from the university of missouri and a phd from rutgers university. Thet publications include secret diary of mary thorpe, 2017s gender and the great war, and 2017s world war i a short history. Book. S a spectacular i consistently get asked questions if theres a short brooke book great for teaching at an introductory point. If you have not seen her short history on world war i, that is a nice entry point. Also clearly, she was very busy and 2017. On as presently working study of American Humanitarian aid in the u. S. From 1914 to 1924, which you will be hearing about more in a few seconds. Ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcoming dr. Tammy proctor. [applause] dr. Proctor to test this out, is it working . Yes . Ok. Good. We are good. For that to lora nice introduction and to camille for all the work she did. Its great to come to kansas city. It is my hometown. Its a
Devastated areas and Cultural Properties as well. I will talk about three different examples today it is food aid and its physical reconstruction and the third is cultural reconstruction. This outpouring of u. S. Relief and Development Helped provide a measure of stability, it created a president for what happened in world war ii so i can talk about many of the personnel involved world war one go to be heavily involved with the u. S. And the United Nations development aid. It also forged the connection between europe and the United States that continues today. Spring of 20 night spring was a big time in the Capital Cities and Woodrow Wilson and in the spring of 1919 to the political feature here and the populations of several European Countries had critical food shortages. A deep concern over the possibility of activity and post war society, wilson in november of 1918 appointed Herbert Hoover to be id call him a food saar for europe and part of the reason he was chosen was that hoover
Its the records of the highest of the self sacrifice of the principles of some of which faded. Here are the records of the suffering and the supreme sacrifice and the purpose of this library is to promote peace and have freedom among men. 100 years ago Herbert Hoover was a part of the paris peace talks and was offering 50,000 dollars which in todays world is almost about 1 Million Dollars and collected material and mr. Hoover at a food relief to belgium for something called the relief fund and the American Relief administration which was during world war one after world war one and the weapons of those administrations would be had the collections be around and was the genesis which was still continuing dynamically and prosperity and the safeguards. The Hoover Institution has 100 volumes of the 6000 collections and other policy related topics in the 24 centuries. Their experts chose across section of artifacts. Here we have two items and this book inaudible which means secret in german
Narrated by actor james cagney. This army film presents a critical history beginning with the 1985 failed revolution up to the construction of the berlin wall. This halfhour film was nominated for a 1963 short subject documentary academy award. James at the roads end, the wall. These are the people who move along the road. Some walk, some ride. Some are wellshod, some are barefoot. Some are so young, they must be carried or so old. Of the hundreds of millions who take this road, some do so willingly. Others hope that the road leads to bread for the hungry, peace for the weary, land for the landless. Some protest openly. It doesnt matter. Some were born on the road. Many will die along the way. Havana, cuba, january 1959. This road leads to this wall. Red china, september 1960. This road, this wall. Berlin, december 1961. This road, this wall. In the beginning, the road exists in the mind of a 19th century philosopher and scholar, karl marx, who maintained only that only through a syste
At the roads end, the wall. These are the people who move along the road. Some walk. Some ride. Some are well shod. Some are barefoot. Some are so young they must be carried. Or so old that the hundreds of millions who take this road, some do so willingly. Others hope that the road leads to bread for the hungry, peace for the weary, land for the landless. Some protest openly doesnt matter. Some were born on the road. Many will die along the way. Havana, cuba, january, 1959. This road leads to this wall. Red china, september, 1960. This road, this wall. Berlin, december, 1961. This road, this wall. In the beginning, the road exists in the mind of a 19th century philosopher and scholar, karl marx, who maintained only through a system he calls communism can the worker and farmer avoid starvation and exploitation. We declare openly marx writes, that our ends can only be attained by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Thus, the road begins. Many who walked the road kno