Announcer what makes a nazi . How does he get that way . Lets look into the darkness. Nazi control over a german child starts as soon as it is born. A young german couple has come to register the birth of their son. Those documents are birth certificates, all the way back to their greatgrandparents, proving that they are pure area and. The mother wants to call her son hans. Here is the verboten list. S seems to be ok. This is their hereditary 12sport with space for children, a subtle hint that germany needs soldiers. As a reward, they get a copy of germanys bestseller. Now lets see what happens to one of hitlers children. Learnsarten, little hans the fairytales of the new order. Remember the story of Sleeping Beauty . Hans was taught that we could which was democracy, and the Sleeping Beauty . What could she be . [laughter] ahha here comes the prints. Rince. C victorious. S democracy has fled. Breaks the spell with a kiss. The prince is germany. Knight,e, handsome you know who he is. E
What period of time are you talking about here . Prof. Stewart its entertainment because it focuses interesting because it focuses on a project that came out of the 1930s and specifically out of the roosevelt administrations attempt to do something to create work for all different types of occupations. It created a number of Arts Projects to put unemployed writers and artists back to work. It happened in the 1930s that they created the federal writers project and decided to start collecting testimony. The 1930s with the last opportunity to collect oral histories of the last generation of africanamericans that experienced slavery firsthand before they passed away. They have created through that project, it only lasted a few ears, 19361939. It created the latest repository of this testimony that we have in the u. S. , winding up with over 2300 interviews that are largely Available Online at the library of congress website. Anyone interested can use those, and scholars have used them to d
Supposed to be a test at the end. The title of my talk on which i forgot until jamie just mentioned is the unknown aaron burr. Im going to tell you what i read a book about aaron burr. The title of my book is called the heartbreak of aaron burr. I cant tell you the whole story without giving away the ending. I dont want to give away the ending because its not just that i want you to buy the book and read the book and enjoy it and hang around till the end, but it has to do with the reason i wrote the book in the first place. This goes back to my experience of writing, my experience of reading and in particular, my experience of listening to a question that my mother has een put into me for the last 23 or 24 years. And the question i would get to in a moment. But it goes to the heart of why people wait and why people read. I teach history at the university of texas. I also teach writing. I teach writing to graduate students bear the graduate students in my writing seminar also completed
Long past slavery, what period of time are you talking about here . Prof. Stewart its very interesting because it focuses on a project that came out of the 1930s and specifically out of the roosevelt administrations attempt to do something to create work for all different types of occupations. It created a number of Arts Projects to put unemployed writers and artists back to work. And so it happened in the 1930s that they created the federal writers project and decided to start collecting testimony. So, it was kind of the 1930s was the last opportunity to collect oral histories of the last generation of africanamericans that experienced slavery firsthand before they passed away. So, they have created through that project, it only lasted a ew years, 19361939. That project crated the largest repository of this testimony that we have in the u. S. , winding up with over 2300 interviews that are largely Available Online at the library of congress website. So, anyone whos interested can go a
During cities across the country. Next, look at our recent visit to montana. You are watching american all weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Smoke jumping started in 1939 in winthrop, washington. The reason it came about, there were fires in the middle of nowhere. They had to hike guys into the fire spread by the time they got there, it would be 1000 acres. They needed guys to get to the fires quickly. The goal of the smokejumper is to jump into wildfires. Speed payload range, thats the motto. They did a bunch of tests in 1939. Those proved successful. The first fire jump was 1940. This was out of missoula. That went well. It continued from there. There are nine smokejumper bases in the western united states. They are as far north as fairbanks, alaska and through northern california. We do have sub bases. We have one in new mexico, not far from the border. Missoula and boise are the two biggest bases. They fluctuate between 70 and 80. Some of the smaller bases, they only have 25 jumpe