A Lasting Impact on American Society. This class is about an hour, 20 minutes. All right. So today were going to talk about america during the First World War. And ive called this lecture americans at war the myth busters edition. And i did that kind of intentionally. Because when we think about understanding the First World War in general, there are so many myths and misconceptions that are attached to the war that its really interesting for us to first understand why those myths exist and then to unpam them a little bit and think more about the reality of the experience, right . I want to start first by talking about how this connects to the First World War overall. So its not just america that has these myths, but even this sense of how we understand the First World War to begin with. And we think of the kind of general narrative that we attach to it. One of the most common narratives is that world war i was a senseless slaughter. Right . Weve already talked about the uncertainty as
Exist and get to unpack them a little bit a little bit and learn about the reality of the experience. I wanted to start first by talking about how this connects to the First World War overall. Its not just america has these myths, but even the sense of how we understand the First World War to begin with, and we think of the kind general narrative that we attached to it, one of the most common narratives is that world war i was a senseless slaughter. We already talked about why this war even occurred. But once its underway, it is sort of predominant image and we get that image a lot from popular culture, those are the kind of images i have up here for you, of the idea that this really was just meant and then sent needlessly to their death. I have an example, all quiet on the western front. You are gonna like this image. This is the cover for the first english edition of the novel. Youll recognize that image from something we discussed last class, and last class was with a german war bon
A deadly nightmare. On december 4th last year the ovation of the seas set sail from sydney for new zealand. It was pay cruise season and thousands of australians had bought tickets for one of the last trips before christmas. On board the Royal Caribbean cruise was adelaide lawyer gavin dello his wife lisa and her 15 year old daughter zoe hosking. A really long toward took care of a preacher all the above regarding sure it should be. A boss trial airline usually on. Also on the ovation of the citys was sydney family the langfords mom and dad. Christine an anthony and their teenage children jesse and were not. There were lots of families taking i suppose an early christmas or a lead into their Christmas Holidays and paid a lot of money they planned for their sake and maybe from where their mindset is i can let them look after me. One of the highlights offered to passengers was a day trip to visit thailand volcano. They were provided with a brochure that was branded with Royal Caribbean b
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I could you know and you are welcome to the program theres a cloud africa stretches now think about this for a 2nd if we want to look at many of our works and sacred objects we have to make a long journey because many of our. Throughout museums in europe a year ago french president. Promised. Just a bend in these royal statues those looted by French Colonial forces that been in ones back but not much has happened yet microns announcement was triggered by a report he had commissioned on the restitution of africas freshest well talk to one of the reports authors in a moment but what are people seeing on the continent. High and african art on display in a museum in africa something that is fairly unusual as many of africas masterpieces are Holliston Europe cynicus museum of black civilisations and decca is an exception like many on the continent the museums director wants to change. Things have been stolen africans are not going to ask to strip european museums their works there that are