This program originally livestreamed on facebook and youtube and is part of a series of Online Events intended to keep visitors connected with mount vernon during its closure to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic. Mr. Bradburn here we are again. Welcome back. My name is doug bradburn. It is my delight to have these opportunities to talk about George Washington. Last wednesday, we were in our museum. This is our Education Center here at mount vernon. It focuses on the life of George Washington. It gives a grand sense of why he matters. Last time, we were looking at his youth, a youth that is oftentimes enwrapped in romance and myth. Of course, he is most known to americans and perhaps the folks around the world as the great military commander, the general who led the americans through the american war for independence, through eight long years of war. His identity as a warrior is a crucial one. We think about who was George Washington, how did he think of himself and his tim
Experiences with the sixth Armored Division in european theater, including fighting in the battle of the bulge. Mr. Slater served as an aide and shared stories about patton. The National World War Ii Museum conducted this interview in 2009 for its oral history collection. 2009. Is august 5, thomas with the National World War Ii Museum. Today i am with Esther Benjamin schleider. For the record, please state your full name. Olafchleider benjamin schleider. Were reborn . Mr. Schleider texas. When were you born . One of the things i remember is, my grandfather, who was a very successful is businessman, was nra, theppy with the National Coverage at recovery act. He had a lot of choice words to say about that. I also remember, we had some tom operations in addition the business my father was in. To,we had to kill cattle for some reason, it was part of the program. And it was very distressing to my family to have cattle killed. We tried to process as much of the meat as possible. And preserve
Government. Good afternoon, everyone. How are you all doing . Our topic for today is the second part of our civil war content for this semester. And i want to talk today about Economic Policy and social events that are tied to the economy. I have kind of titled this, feeding the confederacy. We will focus most of our attention on the Confederate States and we will talk about the crucial issue of how you make sure that your soldiers and your civilians have enough to eat over the course of the war. There are two key ironies of this confederate experience for me. And that historians who study the confederacy really point to. One is that the Confederate States of america is a predominantly agricultural nation. We have talked about this before. The vast majority of the population in the union and the confederacy are people who live on farms. But especially in the Confederate States. We are dealing with a population that is overwhelmingly people who live on farms. And yet they will struggle
Down the country almost all retail is shut down apart from food shops and phone. Or the biggest Basketball League in the world its been shut down because of coronavirus. And definitely after player tests positive for the virus. Welcome then to the new live from doha were bringing you extended coverage of the Coronavirus Crisis deepens the billions of people around the world only one word masses this hour and this is it after holding back for weeks the World Health Organization has now declared the outbreak a pandemic the World Health Organization defines a pandemic as the world wide spread of a new disease for which people have no immunity our coverage this spans confidence will have reporters in the u. S. And europe in asia the middle east africa and latin america will be live for them in just a moment but. 1st lets give an update on how the pandemic looks right now the number of cases has topped 126000 worldwide it all began here in china which has seen more than 80000 cases but new
There are two key ironies of this confederate experience for me. And the historians who study the confederacy really point to one is that the Confederate States of america is a predominantly agricultural nation, and weve talked about this before. The vast majority of the population and the union are people who live on farms but especially in the confederacy states. Were dealing with a population thats overwhelmingly people who live on farms. And yet they will struggle to feed themselves more often than they will run out of bullets and armaments. So this is surprising when you think of an agricultural nation. The second big irony here is that the foundations of the confederacy, the founding documents and the succession documents of the states before they joined the confederacy said we want a limited government with more power given to the states. And yet the confederate government is going to become stronger and more invasive than any Government People had seen to this point in order to