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Transcripts For CSPAN Vietnam War Protest Artifacts 20240622

Historical Society Shows us some of the artifacts from the bombing. We are in the basement of the Wisconsin Historical society where we house our museum collection. We are going to look at artifacts related to the Sterling Hall bombing of 1970. Sterling hall is the Physics Department at the university of wisconsin campus. It house the Army Mathematics Research Center in 1970. The Mathematics Research center was a think tank for the army, created in 1957 to find ways to improve access to the and many enemy, in this case the vietnam war enemy, and also to provide more weapons. While the madison campus was in general,for the war in they tended to focus a lot of hate not hate but their uncomfortableness and anger at the Army Mathematics Research Center. They thought they were creating , not theo destroy enemy being soldiers, but also civilians. They felt that this was not a good way to approach more war. These were mathematicians doing math to figure out how to improve ratios. They did not

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Harris-Cameron Mansion 20170123

Simon cameron mansion here in harrisburg. This is the oldest house in what was the original harrisburg. It was built in 1776, and we are celebrating our 250th anniversary of the mansion this year. John harris sr. , we usually call him the first. We call him the fur trader. He came here from yorkshire county, england, in the 1690s. He came through an introduction to William Penns secretary. Looking for someone to go into the interior of the colony and secure the fur trading rights. Thats how harris got here, approximately 1719. He built a crude log cabin. There was a replica made of what we believe the capital looked like during the bicentennial in 1985. Its over on city island. There was available fur trade in this area and it was supposed to go to england. But there were some intruders of french and dutch origin that were trading with the indians, and i think thats one of the reasons why they sent someone like harris to this area. Basically, he built the storehouse to store the pelts

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 American History TV 20141124

Government. So there are many different approaches. Jimmy carter, for example, wrote a wonderful book of poetry, called always a reckoning. It reflects the man. The good man that he is and the life that he has led, and his insights into the world around him and into the life of the south, for example, where he came from. And some of the contradictions of life in the south. He captures those things in poetry and he talks about his politics, too, in poetry. So yes, in all of those things, president s wrote poetry also did that. Ok. Well, thank you very much, i appreciate your attention [applause] i wanted to point out that he has some copies of his books over here on the table if anybody would like to look at that. I thought he was going to bring a whole bunch and this was all he had left so if youre interested in seeing the book, you may want to take a look at it tonight. Thank you very much for coming, and thank you so very much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 American History TV 20141116

To learn more about the cities on our 2014 tour, visit www. Cspan. Org localcontent. We continue with our look at the history of madison. This is American History tv on cspan3. [traffic noises] together we were very small when the Movement Began. Ago, 49 yearss ago, those opposed to the war were in a distinct minority. But over the course of the next six years, we would grow into wherejority to the point the majority of the American People became opposed to the United States being involved in the war in vietnam. We are on the steps of the state capital of wisconsin in madison. This location was significant for two reasons, i think. In the first instant, it is where the first demonstration against the war in vietnam was held in february of 1965. Four years later in 1969 and of0, this was the location the massive antiwar demonstrations against the war in vietnam with tens of thousands of people, so that is why this is significant. When the United States started escalating its role in vie

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Obituary: John Overall, 77, Unofficial South Orange Historian & Friend to Many

Obituary: John Overall, 77, Unofficial South Orange Historian & Friend to Many
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