Influenced her work and how it formed her view of german citizens during world war ii. It was hosted by the World War Ii Museum in new orleans. Welcome back. This next session is a unique one for our conference. For those who come here regularly, youre used to seeing the biggest and brightest minds in the field of world war ii history. This normally means the bestselling authors of history books, leading professors, dotcomtarians, but when we were planning this years program, we decided to mix it up by inviting a novelist and only the second one that weve hosted in the conferences for the entire time weve been doing these. Don miller is also one of our longeststanding advisers and counselors. Hes a conference press. Hes also like we heard from Rick Atkinson this morning, hes looking into another time period in our important period in our history and will be soon coming out this october with vicksburg grants campaign that broke the confederatety. When the committee decided on this idea
Manual. Hello, im george stone. The big count of the population in these United States is made every 10 years. This is a time when Census Bureau enumerators visit every household with a list of basic questions, like where were you born, how many people in this house, had you worked last week, and so on. This is not the whole story. Between the censuses, the bureau conducts other counts of agriculture, business, housing and many others as well. At the results of all this questioning appeared as statistical tables in this fivefoot shelf of books. I dont suppose many of you reach for a volume of senses reports when you feel the urge to curl up with a good book. But these columns of figures have a great deal to tell us about who we are, what we do and how we live, about the american drama and the American Dream. And my authority for that statement is dr. Philip hauser, professor of sociology and director of Population Research and Training Center at the university of chicago. Doctor, can w
Hi, my name is bill mercer, and i am the associate director of Curatorial Affairs at the panhandle Plains Historical museum. I would like to share about the history of native americans and the culture of native americans in texas. Its very appropriate to begin with the contemporary. Im standing here next to a beautiful piece of sculpture by the noted artist alan houser, who was apache. He was born in oklahoma. He was a descendent of a band removed to oklahoma after his band was captured and later became a terrific artist. As you can see, one of the main foci of this particular piece is a native american on horseback and thats truly the story. Thats the story of native americans in the Southern Plains region and the panhandle especially. What once horses became available to them in the 1600s, particularly the comanches their people, they were able to obtain horses from the traders in santa fe. They were able to utilize the environment much more. I could cover much longer distances. The
Narrator hello, im george stone. The big count of the population in these United States is made every 10 years. This is the time when Census Bureau enumerators visit every household with a list of basic questions such as, where were you born, how many people live in this house, how many headed how did you get to work last week and so on. , this is not the whole story. Between the censuses, the bureau conducts other counts of agriculture, business, housing and many others as well. And the results of all this questioning appear as statistical tables in this fivefoot shelf of books. I dont suppose many of you reach for a volume of census reports when you feel the urge to curl up with a good book. But still, these columns of figures have a great deal to tell us about who we are, what we do and how we live, about the american drama and the American Dream. And my authority for that statement is dr. Philip hauser, professor of sociology and director of the Population Research and Training Cen
Narrator hello, im george stone. The big count of the population in these United States is made every 10 years. This is the time when Census Bureau enumerators visit every household with a list of basic questions such as, where were you born, how many people live in this house, how many headed to work last week, and so on. This is not the whole story. Between the censuses, the bureau conducts other counts of agriculture, business, housing and many others as well. And the results of all this questioning appear as statistical tables in this fivefoot shelf of books. I dont suppose many of you reach for a volume of census reports when you feel the urge to curl up with a good book. But still, these columns of figures have a great deal to tell us about who we are, what we do and how we live, about the american drama and the American Dream. And my authority for that statement is dr. Philip hauser, professor of sociology and director of the Population Research and Training Center at the univer