Just to make a reactive or simply journal lis stick response but something that is floepfully greater than the sum of its parts, you begin to realize that almost everything you thought you knew was not true. And wednesday, a look at the war from the perspective of those who fought it and u. S. Foreign relations after the war and those with vietnam. Thursday at 8 00 p. M. Eastern, our real america series looks at the 1975 Church Committee hearings convened to look at the activities of the cia, irs, fbi and nsa. And with the africanAmerican History and culture opening friday 8 00 p. M. Eastern all Day Conference with talks on africanamerican religion, politics, culture and religion. I couldnt get that out of my mind, that my students were thinking that somehow this africanAmerican History wasnt real because it there was no textbook textbook as there was in all of these American History courses taught in the department of history. And so i decided to write a real textbook. For the complet
Panel discussion this morning as we get ready to speak to some of our most treasured american heroes, our veterans of world war ii, and we thank them for joining us. Hydeck. Is mike i am proud to be here. Our goal is to hopefully share some of their most personal stories from our greatest generation, the thought reading their emotional firstperson accounts can help galvanize the stories of world war ii for you as teachers and students head back to the classroom and you can enhance your lessons hopefully and have a more personal understanding of what these gentlemen and their compatriots have gone through. We know the gentleman sitting euro for us, and the other we know the gentleman sitting here before us, and the other infants, we have a short the other infants, we have a short time. It is amazing they are sitting here with us today. We also want to make sure everyone in the audience has a chance to participate and ask questions of their own that you will find valuable in your classro
The thought reading their emotional firstperson accounts can help galvanize the stories of world war ii for you as teachers and students head back to the classroom and you can enhance your lessons hopefully and have a more personal understanding of what these gentlemen and their compatriots have gone through. We know the gentlemen sitting in front of us and the other events honoring world war ii veterans, we have a short time to connect with them and understand their stories and the fact they made it through one of the most terrific experiences in the worlds history. It is amazing they are sitting here with us today. We also want to make sure everyone in the audience has a chance to participate and ask questions of their own that you will find valuable in your classrooms and for your students. When you ask them, i will probably step forward to make sure i can hear you properly, repeat the question so the audience can hear and the cspan audience can hear and our honorees can here as wel
My name is mike hydeck. I will be your moderator this morning. I am honored to be here once again with friends of the world war ii memorial and the foundation. Im a morning anchor it channel nine in washington dc. The goal of this discussion is to hopefully share some of their most personal stories from our greatest generation. The thought being their emotional firstperson accounts can help galvanize the stories of world war ii for you as teachers and students head back to the classroom and you can enhance your lessons hopefully and have a more personal understanding of what these gentlemen and their compatriots have gone through. We know the gentlemen sitting in front of us and the other events we do honoring world war ii veterans, we have a short time to connect with them and understand their stories and the fact they made it through one of the most horrific experiences in the worlds history. It is amazing they are sitting here with us today. We also want to make sure everyone in the
Is trying to change that through legislative advocacy and education, with a particular focus on young people in communities prone to gun violence. Here today is leah gunn barrett, executive director of new yorkers against gun violence, the organizations education director, as well shaina harrison. Thank you, all, for being with us this afternoon. We appreciate it. Of course, youre doing wonderful work here, and what we really think is particularly interesting is that you have taken your program into the schools. Tell us about that. Well, we figure that its not just enough to do the policy work, which is very important, clearly, but its also educating young people who are living with gun violence on a daytoday basis about the problem and to let them know that there about it. They can become advocates and activists in their community. They cant change where they live, but they can change how around them. So thats what our programs are doing, and they are a semester long or year long, and