Center for the humanities. Event occurred in dallas. Since the pandemic has begun, for our purposes, since we shut down in march, they thing that thing that has been driving our analysis here as historians is what is the historical precedent . Obviously, 1918 is the one that comes to mind and we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my friend christopher nichols. Hes an associate professor of history at oregon state. He is also the director of the Oregon State Center for humanities and the founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard and wesleyan, and got his ma and phd from a good friend of ours at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on i would say the early parts of the 20th century. That is what his previous work was on. He is expanding out and he and i, before we came on, we were chatting about new work on ideologies in u. S. Foreign policy, which is that book itself was a seminal book in the field in 1987 and im glad someone has
Devastated areas and Cultural Properties as well. I will talk about three different examples today it is food aid and its physical reconstruction and the third is cultural reconstruction. This outpouring of u. S. Relief and Development Helped provide a measure of stability, it created a president for what happened in world war ii so i can talk about many of the personnel involved world war one go to be heavily involved with the u. S. And the United Nations development aid. It also forged the connection between europe and the United States that continues today. Spring of 20 night spring was a big time in the Capital Cities and Woodrow Wilson and in the spring of 1919 to the political feature here and the populations of several European Countries had critical food shortages. A deep concern over the possibility of activity and post war society, wilson in november of 1918 appointed Herbert Hoover to be id call him a food saar for europe and part of the reason he was chosen was that hoover
America, sunday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern, only on American History tv. Next, from the society for of american formulation annual conference, 99 years after the 19th amendment. The audiencens in to discuss the influence women have had on Foreign Relations its obtaining the vote in 1920. Coming toou for this panel, 99 years after the 19th amendment. , and you to our panelists caitlin mystery and jason x 10, who put this panel together and where the cochairs of the Conference Program committee, and are responsible for the Wonderful Program we will be enjoying over the next few days. Thek you as well to cosponsors of this event, the coordinating council for women the history and American Studies Department at the George Washington university. Scientists tell us that women played a bigger role in the 2018 elections than they had in any other election in American History. A Record Number of women are running for office, taking up seats in congress, and heading out on the president ial campaign
Panel event of this years conference. 99 years after the 19th amendment. Thanks to our panelists who will lead through an interesting conversation and thanks to katie mistry and jay sexton who not only put this panel together but also were cochairs of the Conference Program committee and are responsible for the Wonderful Program we will enjoy over the next couple of days. Thank you to the cosponsors of the event, the coordinating council for women in history and the history and American Studies Department at George Washington university. Political scientists tell us that women played a bigger role in the 2018 elections than they have in any other election in history. A Record Number of women are running for office, taking up seats in congress and heading out on the campaign trail. Women have made up the majority. Since 1980, there has been a growing gender gap. Despite these trends, women continue to be underrepresented. Even with the record chattering number of women that joined congr
Next, ran export themes that shaped policy. The exporting of concepts like progress and civilization in the 20th century and the lack of diversity and thought among u. S. Policymakers during the cold war. This discussion was hosted by a conference was part of a organence hosted at the at oregon state university. , i first realized how brilliant he was when i was at the university of pennsylvania. A dissertation entitled which was awarded the 2016 allen evans prize. Be ook manuscript will a book will be based on it by the Harvard University press. He is a great scholar to lead us off. Help me in welcoming him. That is a very generous introduction and i feel like i have a lot to follow since you gave a great summary of what im doing. Thank you all for coming out here and thank you everyone for reading my paper. Im excited to be able to aesent this work in such diverse audience, people who are doing work different from the stuff i normally do. For me i kind of live and breathe in a time w