outfront next, israeli troops inside gaza city tonight. the defense men stir saying hamas fighters are coming out of underground tunnels. the first americans have been allowed to leave gaza, which includes the american pediatrician barbara zincd and her husband. we ll tell you what happened inside that courtroom with the sketch artist. digging into the new house speaker s past. his work with the group that promoted conversion therapy and a long record of anti-gay comments. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, we begin with the breaking news inside gaza city. the israeli defense minister tonight saying that there is intense fighting inside gaza city, one of the most densely populated cities in the world. gaza city, of course, is the biggest city in the gaza strip. the defense minister of israel yoav gallant says they have described hamas fighters as coming out from underground tunnels, from underground buildings, from underground
about going to be talking or rather we will begin our conversation about neutrality. that will last over the course of several lectures. this morning we are going to really focus on what neutrality looks like and meant for the americans especially in the first half of the war. the thing i want you to understand the most and this is really vital because it s a very different understanding of neutrality than we have today. neutrality at the beginning of the war did not mean inactivity. passivity.mean and it most certainly did not mean impartiality. if it doesn t mean those things, what is neutrality? the definition differs with each country. some like belgium will say they never give up their neutrality. they were invaded. but they always remained officially neutral. so they were aggrieved against as a neutral country. others like switzerland will say it,re neutral and to prove i m going to hold your wallet and i m going to hold your wallet and that s how i m neutral. in the ca
about, or rather we will begin our conversation about neutrality. that conversation will last over several lectures. we will wrap up other countries s neutrality but this morning we will talk about what neutrality looks like and meant for the americans. especially in the first half of the war. the thing that i want you to understand the most, this is very vital. it is a very different understanding of neutrality then we have today. neutrality at the beginning of the war did not mean inactivity. it did not mean passivity. it most only did not mean impartiality. if it does not mean those things, what on earth does neutrality mean? the definition of neutrality differs with each country. some, like belgium will say that they never gave up their neutrality. they were invaded. they always remained officially neutral. they were aggrieved as a neutral country. others like switzerland will say i am neutral and to prove it, dylan, i will hold your wallet and kia i will hold your wallet
on lectures in history, university of minnesota professor sage matthew teaches a class about neutrality and what that concept meant in world war i america. she explains how neutrality did not mean inactivity as the u.s. sold materials to the allied and central powers, helping both sides continue the fight. she sought to police technicians and ethnic groups and yet best faced criticism about how treated its own minorities. prof. mathieu: good morning everyone. we will begin our conversation about neutrality. that will last over several lectures. this morning, we are going to really focus on what neutrality looks like and meant for the americans. especially in the first half of the war. the thing that i want you to understand the most, this is very vital. it is a very different understanding of neutrality then we have today. neutrality at the beginning of the war did not mean inactivity. it did not mean passivity. meanst only did not impartiality. if it does not mean those th
Tell us more about that. Bill the easiest example is dinosaurs. For thousands of years people had no idea that these great beasts had ever existed. Now we have not only created information about them, but disseminated it so widely that every fouryearold child has a collection of little plastic dinosaurs. Most of what academics do is sort out the conflicts of what was said at the time to create a clearer and more detailed and accurate picture of the past so that we know things about the romans that the romans didnt know. We know things about baseball and the 1960s that the Baseball Players in the 1960s did not know. Brian when did you know you wanted to write this particular book . Bill i stumbled into it without making a decision to do it. I was supposed to be working on a book with my wife, which i am still working on, about the wanted to write this particular history of kansas. I saw a pbs show about the murders in villisca, iowa and thought i would put a couple of hours into trackin