Ii. And professor urwin is a long time friend of this museum project. It is one of the great advantages of being in philadelphia, that we can be close neighbors to professor urwin, whose work on the british army in the American Revolution is extensive, and nuanced, and is always inspiring of our exhibits, and publications, and the development of our core exhibition, professor urwin played a crucial role in the display of the story of enslaved runaways, weighing the promise of the phillipsburg proclamation, announced by general clinton in 1779, which offered somewhat vaguely protection and perhaps freedom of run aways who made their way through to the british lines through consultation with a number of historians, particularly of africanAmerican History in this period, it became a really an imperative that we do two very challenging, often seemingly contradictory things with our tableau in showing people facing this question of whether to trust the british on this promise. And one was t
Its my pleasure to welcome today a professor Gregory Irwin of the revolution through world war ii. Its one of the great advantages of being in philadelphia that we can be close neighbors to professor irwin, whose work on the british army ands the American Revolution is extensive and nuanced and always inspiring of our exhibits and publications. In the development of our core exhibition, professor irwin played a crucial role in the display of the story of enslaved runaways weighing the promise of the proclamation announced by general clinton in 17 which offered somewhat vaguely protection and freedom of run aways who made their way to the british lines through consultation with a number of historians particularly of American History in this period. It became a really imperative that we do two very challenging, often seemingly contradictory things with showing and people facing this question of whether to trust the british on this promise. One was to demonstrate their agency to capture t
Military historian Gregory Erwin talks about challenges the british army faced in adapting to north american terrain and battle tactics during the revolutionary war. The museum of the American Revolution, Pritzker Museum and the richard vann has foundation cohosts this event as part of a threeday international conference. My name is philip mead, director of Curatorial Affairs on the American Revolution, and it is my pleasure to welcome today to welcome to welcome today ,resident Gregory Urwin professor of American History from the revolution through world war ii. A longtimerwin is friend of this museum project. Thene of it is one of great advantages of being in philadelphia, that we can be close neighbors to the professor, whose work on the british army in the American Revolution is extensive and always inspiring of our exhibits and publications , and the development of our core exhibition. Professor urwin played a crucial role in the display of the story weighinged runways, the promis
After the march, but they are still there. They will erupt in 19 67. In 19 67, clashes with police because the deadliest uprising in the citys history. They began july 23 after no overnight police raid. Violence and property destruction lasted for five days until Mission Governor michigan governor romney called the National Guard and federal troops were ordered into detroit. End many people were killed more were injured, and thousands of buildings destroyed. To watch more video from detroit and other stops on our tour, watch cspan cities to her. Weekend history tv, all every weekend on cspan three tv. World war ii veteran elmo 505th infantryhe division on dday when he parachuted into germany after his plane was hit. He described his regimens efforts to hold the la fiere bridge. The interview was recorded in new orleans. Start with giving me your name and ranking, your company and regimen. My name is elmo bell. Im retired from the army. And the mississippi National Guard. Full colonel 0
Keep eye contact with me when we go from here. You want to hear about the drop in normandy . We deported from an airfield in britain. We had been briefed and we knew exactly what conditions were in normandy and where the drop zones were located. Sometime during the fight we received aircraft fire from the right side of the planes. We were not aware that some of the midChannel Islands were occupied by the germans. That confused us because we thought we were approaching normandy. And parallel to the cause we turned north parallel to the coast of normandy. The jump master was watching the door. As soon as they could see landfall he ordered the troops to stand up and hook up. The plate was hit plane was hit by aircraft fire. The right side was knocked out. Just a few of the troopers had hooked their signs up. They dumped everybody in. Of course there was a mad scramble to get to the door. The plane was listing to the right and nobody could climb the incline to get to the door. I was able t