Today for this webinar on the nazi murder of the disabled. In the 1945 trial. We are so fortunate to have as our special guest today dr. Rice from the United States Holocaust Memorial museum in washington, d. C. I want to give a little bit of background about dr. Rice. She is director of the division of the Senior Historian at the mendelseph and Morton Center of holocaust studies. She is an expert of the nazi annihilation policies and effort to bring the nazi perpetrators to justice after world war ii. She has a lot of publications. I am going to mention a small number of those for you today. Trial,s atrocities on and historical perspectives on the politics of prosecuting war crimes, the 2008 volume she coedited with her colleague at the holocaust museum. I would like to mention to you especially about this volume, dr. Rices contribution in a piece entitled early war postwar justice in the american zone, the murder factory trial, which we will get to in the second half of our discussio
The revolutionary war era. Mark is a delightful historian. I wish i could get him to laugh on q. His most on cue. His most distinctive feature is is left. Were delighted to have him speak on the first shots of the civil war at fort sumter. Mark . Mark thank you very much for that introduction, chris, and its a pleasure to be able to speak at this symposium for the emerging civil war. We would love to have done it in person, but being able to do it digitally like this is a wonderful way to do it, as well. But yeah, as chris mentioned, my main passion is the American Revolutionary war. But i worked for the National Park service, and we take care of a lot of important civil war sites. I actually started my career with the National Park service as an intern down at fort sumter in charleston, South Carolina. I worked there for about a year, in charleston, South Carolina, if youve never been, its a beautiful town. Theres a lot of history, revolutionary war history, but most people associate
Introduction for this gentleman. Chris makowski, dr. Chris makowski, is the editor in chief of the emerging civil war. One of the cofounders, along with myself and another friend of ours. Emerging civil war started six years ago. We celebrated our 6th anniversary. And we have put together a great group of young historians, old historians, emerging voices. A large part of that has to do with chris michalski. Chris is the author of more than a dozen books. Author and coauthor of more than a dozen books. He takes up the entire backside of the book sale area, so make sure you go see his son jackson who is counting all the cash from the books you are buying. Chris has been my coauthor. He has been the editor in chief of emergence of a war. He is the face of emerging civil war and without him we would not be here. We were not have the great cast of characters that have come up here. And i would not be where i am professionally without chris. And for those of you who know me i love what i do
Introduction for this gentleman. Chris makowski, dr. Chris makowski, is the editor in chief of the emerging civil war. One of the cofounders, along with myself and another friend of ours. Emerging civil war started six years ago. We celebrated our 6th anniversary. And we have put together a great group of young historians, old historians, emerging voices. A large part of that has to do with chris michalski. Chris is the author of more than a dozen books. Author and coauthor of more than a dozen books. He takes up the entire backside of the book sale area, so make sure you go see his son jackson who is counting all the cash from the books you are buying. Chris has been my coauthor. He has been the editor in chief of emergence of a war. He is the face of emerging civil war and without him we would not be here. We were not have the great cast of characters that have come up here. And i would not be where i am professionally without chris. And for those of you who know me i love what i do
Citizens in the capitol. To replacein 2006 one of theirs with the edison statute. Theinute ceremony features house speaker. Ladies and gentlemen, the the United States house of representatives, the honorable paul ryan. [applause] speaker ryan oish that, even from a badger fan. Welcome to the United States capitol. Exciting day. Today were unveiling the latest the National Statutory hall. Contributes two statues put on display throughout the capitol and the delegation decided that one of their state statutes, former governor william allen, wasnt the best choice. His place they have decided to put a statue of the thomas elvaor, milan, who was born in ohio, in 1847. I want to congratulate the of ohio for this most excellent choice and i thank all you for coming today, especially those of you from ohio, for joining us in this celebration. Thank you, everybody. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, please stand for the presentation of the United States armed forces color guard, the anthem of our