This. Imagine a group of students as a cohort. The cohort becomes class meet. classmates. Once in a while they become lifelong friends. So, colleagues, cohort, classmate, colleagues, and that golden thing, a friend. I am cheating a little bit because she came to yell to study with Harold Lamarr a year after me and she was in the History Department and i was in that ragtag group in american studies. Not a cohort exactly. We did become friends, puzzling over readings, yachtings brilliant, but sometimes excruciating seminars. Western history, some of you may know, was taught in the basement. And on friday afternoons. The slow drone of graduate students, our own included we survived our basement years, scattered, and became colleagues, solving problems about students for each other. So, cohort, classmate, collie, but for me, we became friends, most important. A last bit of graduate school alchemy that knit the strange world of ideas into the world of spouses, partners, families, and childr
How many of you are between the ages of 20 and 60, who do not remember where you were when you heard about the tragedy of 9 11 . Udden, traumatic, unexpected events leave indelible images in our mind and in our psychies. On november s old 22, 1963. I was in the second grade, in a city called hayward, california. And the older sister of a girl in my class came to the door because it was raining outside and we couldnt go out for recess and said the president had been killed. Of course, i didnt believe her. Later that day, i went home, across the street to where my grandmother lived. I saw my mother and grandmother watching television and i knew it was real. That weekend, i Read Everything i could and watched everything i could on television about this extraordinary event. And that was the weekend that was the catalyst for my fascination, my wife would say obsession, with how the news media shape Public Opinion. In december of 2010, i turned 55 and started wondering, what do i want people
He is an expert in military occupations, occupational command. He has authored articles on the american civil war. He holds a masters degree in American History from middle Tennessee State university. I will go off script one second. He has done more to bring attention to the civil war than anyone ever has before. If you dont follow him before this event, follow him on facebook with the sense of washington, he keeps it fresh, keeps it real, and is bringing great information. [applause] steve thank you, i appreciate that. Can everyone see me in the back . Sure i broughte up something that was bright enough for everyone to see. Im originally from denver. We call this united in orange. Thank you, i want to express my deep gratitude to chris for the honor to present at the symposium here at stevensons ridge in virginia. Last year i was a part of the panel. It is an honor to be back and talk about the battle of fort stevens. You will hear me talk about the battle of fort stevens today and a
Programming exploring our nations past. Next, historian Nancy Bristow talks about the 1918 influenza pandemic and how it devastated american civilians and soldiers during the final year of world war i and beyond. She also explains why the epidemic is not memorialized like the war itself, despite causing a higher number of deaths. Ms. Bristow is the author of american pandemic. Museumional world war i and memorial in kansas city, missouri, hosted this talk as part of their annual symposium. I do believe that is my cue and getthis direction our introduction for our next speaker. Also, i would like to say before that, here is a little Public Service announcement. I will be stealing this line from dr. Nyberg. Potentially, there is only one thing you can learn from the world war. That thing would be dont forget to get your flu shot. [laughter] gentlemen, do remember that. We did get that wonderful thing called daylight savings time because of world war i in the United States and other count
Having, and i feel like this is one of those so im excited for him to speak about it. Im going to give you a little kind of overview. If a cell phone, please take photos, but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you probably can see. Its a little distracting. We will have the books for sale. We have them for sale currently and if you would like to, i really implore you to look through it and have alan sign it. Hell be signing afterwards as well. We have a wonderful server in the room. She will be here all night. So please take care of her as she will take care of you. I will now turn it on over to alan for the talk of ghosts of Sheridan Circle. Thanks. [ applause ] thank you very much, olivia. Thank you to busboys and poets for hosting this. I also want to thank my publisher for putting this together, the two institutions who made this book happen in washington. Im so happy to be presenting this in washington which is, you know, literally the scene of this crime. The