For years, he knew he read the archives and conducted interviews in the course of his research, including here at the National Archives. World war ii created tens of thousands of cubic feet that are now held in the National Archives. We are brought facetoface with many facets of the war and its aftermath. Every day, in our research rooms, online researchers examine personal records and german records to uncover the stories of the war and the people who fought, died, and survived. During this 75th anniversary, the National Archives staff is ready to assist those who come to us searching for the evidence of what happened in the past. Today, James Holland is here. He is a historian and writer. He has also written numerous works of historical fiction. He has written and presented bbc documentaries. A fellow of the Royal Historical society, he advised the British Government on history curriculum and has his own collection at a museum. Please welcome James Holland. [applause] thank you. It i
Monuments. If youre not interested in that, you are in the wrong room. I will give you that warning at the beginning. Representative connellys office for arranging the room, and the people of the 11th district of virginia for electing representative connelly , since he has been the one generous enough to this. I want to thank amanda. , the assistant director of the National History center for doing all of the work. The National History Center Offers these briefings because everything has a history and when some of those everythings are within the realm of public policy, it is our obligation as historians to provide the Historical Context essential to inform debate and decision making. That obligation forms the soul advocacy position in these the sole advocacy position in these briefings. We are not here to convince anybody on legislation. We are here because change requires understanding the change that have brought us to the structure in the first place. We have discussed in these mee
What is the clinical definition of addiction . Adam i think the clinical basically is generally confined to a substance. There are a few other small behaviors that are creeping in. The definition has been widening recently, there are many experts believe it should apply to a number of behaviors. Its an experience that in the short term is very appealing that we return to over and over again. It turns outerm, to be bad for us, it diminishes our wellbeing. That can be financial, social, psychological, or physical. Lots of behaviors fall into that definition under that banner. Not enough of them are captured by the definition. Ares technology addictive, we addicted to technology . Adam i think to a large extent we are. Its too brought to say we are addicted to technology, there is a lot under that. There are forms of technology that we find irresistible, and are ultimately not great for our wellbeing. Most of them revolve around screens, not all of them. This is a very young issue. We don
Quest the business many will come to order, we will do a little business on the front end and hopefully take care of some business quickly, i know people have other meetings and then will move to the hearing itself. We think our witness for allowing us to do this and we are glad you are here. Items on theber of agenda today, we will move a number of nominations and Foreign Service officer list. Theill also take up multilateral act of 2017. I want to think sen. Coons his leadership and hard work on this bill, i want to recognize senators isaacson, rubio, young, kane and merkley whether contributions to this important Bipartisan Legislation before our committee. Establish all process for conducting objective reviews on how multilateral institutions carry out their missions with our funding. Authorities through this process, we will be able to evaluate their performance in an objective way. The review will look at performance, management, accountability and transparency. Transparency alig
Comedian by the name of tim sample and he has this great bit where he talks about getting directions and he says you cant get there from here. Ryan is a fell mainer and he has proven that you can get there from here. Ryan comes to you from the great state of maine. He began working here at the Military Park as an San Bernardino then as a seasonal. Hes also a tour guide at ken moore, an Historic House in downtown fredericksburg. The thing im most excited about with ryan and there are many things because he is an absolute rising rock star in the vein of kevin pollak. He said i love this story of monocracy and he started writing about lew wallace and monocracy and he was fascinated by it. And the emerging civil war gave him the opportunity to explore that passion and you could absolutely see it in the way that his research came together, in the way that he told the story and story and hes opened up what is essentially a littleknown bat until a fresh, exciting and especially relevant way s