Disclosure that a u. N. Peacekeeping force from nepal was the source of a cholera outbreak. He leaves readers fully aware of how much remains to be done if haiti is to have a Brighter Future is and it currently is looking at. That is it, they were all fabulous books but one of them has to win the bernstein award. That is dan fagin for toms river a story of science and salvation. [applause] dont go quite yet. Have two words. Wow. All right. I long for liz. [applause] wow. Long form lives because of people like the bernstein family. Thank you very much for places like New York Public Library that care about reality, care about what actually is in this world. It lives because of people like you that support this kind of work and it especially lives because of amazing books like david and jonathan and fred and sheri fink and we are just surrogates for a much Larger Population of people who do this work everyday. This is an amazing faint. Truth actually matters and when it stopped smatterin
Visits museums and historic places. Next, a visit to the u. S. Armys archives in carlisle, pennsylvania, to learn about their soldier experience gallery, which traces army history from the 1898 spanish american war to the present. Welcome to the u. S. Army heritage and Education Center in carlisle, pennsylvania. My name is carl warren. Im going to show you around today. This is the part of the facility more like a museum rather than an artifact archives or Storage Facility. Its our way to show the American Public the sort of materials we have here, so you can understand army history, whether youre a soldier and a veteran or someone who has never had family or been in the army themselves. We start the timeline for this exhibit with the spanishamerican war because thats when our collections have the very first recorded audio oral histories of soldiers who actually experienced the war itself. Of course the spanish american war we have the title, the great adventure, because the army was n
Are spending much time at all training for the crater. I think it gets back to how we tend to want to remember this story. The story of the black Union Soldier is front and center. I couldnt be happier about that. I think theres been a danger in the way the story has been pushed over the last few years. It is the moral narrative of our civil war memory. We want to correct for forgetting about them for so long. I think we tend to gloss over some of the darker sides of black soldiers. I dont think were comfortable talking about black soldiers massacrering others. That doesnt fit into our minds right now. I think we want to believe if those black regiments had been allowed to lead the assault that would have been it. We can imagine black soldiers charging over brandfield hill into petersberg. Thats a very soothing image. Anyone who has studied civil war battles, theres nothing that goes as planned. Is there any surprise given this massive detonation. No one can really predict what it will
Tonight watch as the National Park service commemorates 150th anniversary of the battle. Well also take a look at how the attack failed and why the u. S. Colored troops were unjustly blamed. Author kevin levine on the contribution of the u. S. Colored troops and immediately following the civil war. Here are some of the highlights for twheekd. Friday on cspan and prime time, well visit important sites in the history of the civil rights movement. Saturday night at 8 00, highlights from this years new York Ideas Forum including cancer biologist andrew hessel. On sunday, q a with new york congressman charlie wrangle at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Friday night at 8 00 on cspan2, indepth. Saturday on afterwards at 10 00, retired neurosurgeon and columnist ben carson. And saturday, Lawrence Goldstone on the competition between the Wright Brothers and glen curtis to be the predominant name in manned flight. American history tv on cspan3 on friday at 8 00 eastern. A look at hollywoods portrayal of slav
Family or been in the army themselves. We start the timeline for this exhibit with the spanishamerican war because thats when our collection had the very first recorded audio oral history of soldiers who actually experienced the war itself. Of course, the spanishamerican war, we have the title the great adventure because the army was not ready to go to war at this point in time. When the u. S. S. Maine exploded in havana harbor, everything came to a head and the war started in earnest. A lot of soldiers enlisted all at once. We didnt have any sort of going to war anyway, and then seeing the consequences of the spanish american war afterwards. Kind of fore shadowed the americans ability to fight war. So we start with the spanish american war and move on through and show different soldiers stories throughout the exhibit. The great part about these exhibits is that we can show different soldiers stories over time and switch them out very easily to get our massive collection of artifacts a