Clara barton during the civil war. Miss stiehm argues that she played a major role in playing for caring for soldiers during and after the war. This talk was hosted by Georgetown Public Library and it is about an hour. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for coming out this rainy day. I am the librarian here at the peabody room. A special collection of georgetown neighborhood history and it is part of the District Of Columbia Public Library special collections which consists of the washingtonian and black studies. Both of those are located at the Martin Luther king jr. Library. I would like to welcome miss jamie stiehm back. She has become one of our regulars here talking about a disparate group from American History. She is a syndicate columnist and contributor to usnews. Com, today she will speak about clara barton remarkable civil war humanitarian work. [applause] ms. Stiehm this is the Perfect Place to be speaking about civil war washington. The room itself takes us there. I am
Patterns not rule our lives. They touch the lives of an individual, or in which an individual person makes a big difference to the pattern. We had been reading a book on the voyages of World History and we know that there are all kinds of big patterns and we know that it is the job of students to figure out what the big pattern is, because of what happened in our lives, it is so chaotic and quick, we cannot figure out the overall trajectory. Things we are looking at is the effect of the environment on us, whether it is all the things creature gives nature hurls at us, whether it is a hurricane, tornado, famine, or Something Like ebola. We have also looked at things that are like mechanical things or technological inventions, those are patterns. The ways in which farming, farming does not seem like technology, but the ways farming and the plow replaced hunting and gathering. That replacement led to the paleolithic period. And other technologies that have really affected our lives, such
This subject, week after next, train and equip, not just iraq. Iraq, syria and afghanistan. Historically in a broader context, what are the lessons . Is it always hard . Are there particular circumstances in every country beyond our control . Are there lessons we can apply more broadly to Different Countries and our efforts to improve their Security Forces . We cant do everything ourselves. So nebraskas gsomebodys got t there helping us do it. Were trying to work with others. You just heard somebody today mention poland. We have allies of different capabilities. How well are we organized, equipped, prepared to work with those different capabilities . I think this is a big, very important question. So is the hearing going to be oversight or education . Both. So were going to have close the roundtable, were going to have outside experts, were going to have administration witnesses at different events. So its try to understand, but its also hone in on what were doing now and is it working
Part of the district of Columbia Public Library special collections which consists of the washingtonian and black studies. Both of those are located at the Martin Luther king jr. Library. I would like to welcome miss jamie stiehm back. She has become one of our regulars here talking about a disparate group from American History. She is a syndicate columnist and m,ntributor to usnews. Co antedate she will speak about civilbarton remarkable war humanitarian work. [applause] ms. Stiehm this is the Perfect Place to be speaking about civil war washington. The room itself takes us there. I am happy to see all of you. I will speak for about 20 minutes and then open the floor to questions. You probably know that clara nurse. Was a civil war there was much more to her than that. Humanitarian. If she were alive today she might have one the nobel peace prize. In 1861, clara barton was a 39 year old single woman with new england written all over her demeanor. She could not rest easy until she foun
Next, Associated Press staff talk about vietnam war photographs and the state of war photography today. The book, vietnam the real war a photographic history by the Associated Press, contains 300 photos by 50 photographers. The passage in california posted this event. For the first few minutes we will see a slideshow. Hello, i am tina with book passage. Thank you for coming. I was a child during the vietnam war, really. I was living in turkey while my dad was reporting for armed forces radio. He remembers the war much more vividly than i do. But for both my dads generation and for mine, the war is preserved for our reflection and study. Its history in words and images captured by some of the most impressive journalists on the planet, the Associated Press. Over the time of the vietnam war, ap won 6 Pulitzer Prizes for coverage, for both stories and breaking news photography. Some of the greatest names in war correspondence staffed the ap bureau, malcolm brown, peter arnett, nick ut, geo