Rates in the wave of the horrors of the great war. And at some of these women who are attending 1919 1920 press conference, helped push president Woodrow Wilson to support the 19th amendment. The National World War One Museum hosted this event and provided the video. It is such a pleasure to cooperate with the museum and i am thankful to laura for reaching up to me and making this program possible. I have about 45, 50 minutes of stories and information that i am excited to share with you. I do very much hope that you will pose whatever questions you have. I dont always have the answers but i will certainly give it my best shot. So, the cover that you are looking at there on your screens, the cover of my most recent book, peace on our terms. It is fundamentally tied to the history of world war i which makes this collaboration so important to me. My back as a snapshot of a singular moment in history. Almost exactly 100 years ago, as the world finally began accident from the devastation f
One of south africas most powerful politicians is due in court, accused of corruption involving multimillion dollar government contracts and popular home, but heavily criticized worldwide entente to achieve wins enough seats in parliament in parliamentary elections to form the next government. Thank you very much for joining us. We begin with reports that civilians have been massacred in northern ethiopia as fighting continues between the military and local forces in that region. Amnesty International Says hundreds may have been killed on monday. Its unable to confirm who was responsible but witnesses blame forces loyal. Busy to the great Peoples Liberation front, thousands are fleeing the violence many crossing the border into neighboring so don, the offensive against the grays. Leaders began last week after they were accused of attacking and military base called if not hundreds of civilians were stabbed to death in a small town called cutter, which is in the southwest of the degree r
Monuments. This is in washington d. C. And they hosted the event and provided the video. I am pleased to introduce todays discussion, during the last several years, how we remember and memorialize the civil war has been a topic in the United States and we have seen a renewed interest in these conversations in the recent weeks. At this site of Political Violence and national memory, we see our work as looking not only to the actions of the past but also how the passed informs to these circumstances throughout the country and the world, people raise questions about the purposes of the leaders who supported or profited from slavery, whether in richmond, boston, or birmingham, monuments and statues have become a flashpoint for the black lives matter movement. Since 2015, ford has held an annual Summer Institute set in stone, memory, monument, and myths that has explored questions of remembrance and memorialization. Each year, we find the spring has brought new and urgent crises that requir
President s role in the spanish american war acquiring hawaii and the philippines and liberating cuba from spain, and implementing an open door policy with china. This was recorded at the kansas city public library, in kansas city, missouri in 2017. Its just a learn our. Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to kansas city public library. Robert mary, this is his second presentation in this somewhat halls of the kansas city public library. Five star library, from the library journal. [applause] hes a graduate of the university of washington, has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism, hes been a reporter for the observer the wall street journal, managing editor and executive editor and editor in chief of congressional quarterly, and more recently, editor of the National Interest in the american conservative. American conservative has been about this passage, he said its collaborative, it sounds a lot like robert mary. This is a description of their philosop
[roll call] clerk madam president , all members of the commission are present. Item number 2 is the pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] clerk clrk item number 3 is the approval of minutes for the august 25, 2020 special meeting. So moved. Second. President brandon all in favor, roll call vote. [roll call] president brandon motion passes unanimously. The motion of august 25, 2020 [inaudible]. Clerk item number 4 is announcements. Please be vised that a member of the public has up to three advised that a member of the public has up to three minutes to make pertinent Public Comments on each agenda item unless the Court Commission adopts a shorter period on any tight. Please note that during the Public Comment period, the moderator will instruct dialin participants to such a tonetone phone to register their desire for Public Comment. Audio prompts will signal to dinein participants when their audio input has been enabled for commenting. Please dial in when the item you wish to com