Friends and we are in this great museum and with the exception of the chilly weather and we have an excuse to say this and to date, what i want to talk about in the auto empire and we understand this crucial moment to get a better grasp of it. We turn our attention to this experience. Its not easy to be the first speaker after the lunch break but ill try to make it interesting. For the ten long years between 1912 and 1922, through the period of crisis which was in conflict. In 1912 and 1913 and the First World War in 1914 and finally the turkish war in 1919, 1922. The empires in the capital room had millions of people dead wounded and captive. A lot believed they were the one on a much larger scale in the conflict step preceded and followed it. Its four years from october 1914 to october 1918. The hope of regaining the territories lost in the previous conflict is the most valuable but also the empires last promises in africa to the cold war against italy in 1911, 1912. More importantly
Ace . That should have sounded there is a question mark at the end of it in case it didnt. We are thrilled to have you here on site and thrilled to have you all join us either online or via tv, because we know that these conversations are essential to not only understanding history but understanding our present. Which this speaker absolutely is going to be addressing all of those things. Dr. Akin is an associate professor at tulane university, where he specializes in the late Ottoman Empire and republican of turkey. His book, when the war came home examines the Ottoman Empires catastrophic experience of the First World War and analyzes the impact of the war on the civilian population and was named the 2018 choice award for outstanding academic title. Thes the coeditor of Ottoman Empire middle east 19 18 onlinee 1914 International Encyclopedia of the First World War. A you have not use that as resource yet, you really need to take a look at it. Encyclopedia is spectacular with global co
Witnesses up are 2 veteran diplomats acting u. S. Ambassador to ukraine William Taylor and Deputy Assistant secretary of state george cant a tailor has said in closed door testimony he had what he calls a clear understanding the trump wanted to pressure ukraine into investigating his political rival joe biden in exchange for continuing military aid to ukraine cant testify the trumps lawyer Rudy Giuliani pushed for the removal of the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie avantage who will testify on friday the president denies any wrongdoing and says the inquiry is in his words the greatest witch hunt in american history. Kimberly how kate is at the white house and castro is on capitol hill for us where that hearing is of course taking place well be talking to both of them in just a few minutes but 1st patty cohan begins our coverage. From a most the 1st day of his presidency there have been calls for Donald Trumps impeachment. But for the 1st 2 years with his party in control of con
We have been spending the week with an Amazing Group of educators from all over the country brought together under the auspices of the gulder Lehrman Institute of Early American History. This is generously supported by the Library Company of philadelphia and the pew center for arts and heritage. We spent the week tossing around ideas about how we might redraw Early American History. We tried to do that by suggesting one productive way of redrawing that history is to think in terms of a complicated and ever shifting set of contests among three sets of actors. Three sets of actors we call native people, settler colonists, and european empires. It is probably obvious to folks what we mean when we think about native peoples, although it should not be that obvious, except to stress it is a plural term. We are talking about many different peoples who have many different histories and are constantly in historical motion. European empires may be obvious, but once again it is a plural term. We
Suggesting one productive way of redrawing that history is to think in terms of a complicated and ever shifting set of contests among three sets of actors. Three sets of actors we call native people, settler colonists, and european empires. Obvious to folks what we mean when we think about native peoples, although it should not be that obvious, except to stress it is a plural term. We it is a complicated set of things. We have also been talking about the technical use of the term settler and settler colonists. I wonder if i might embarrass somebody in our room among these wonderful teachers to try to take a crack at defining what we mean by settler colonists in this threepart mix. Theory the settlers believed the land they arrive to belonged to them and not the native people so they had a right to be on that land and the native people could be erased. Right, and that is a historical product. There may be some people who came to north america from europe or elsewhere with the idea in th