It hints at a story beyond just two years of service and fighting over there. Actually, exactly. We return fighting, the africanamerican experience in world war i. The key to that title is, number one, you dont see the word military because it is not just about soldiers, it is about soldiers and civilians. It is about men and women. Its about young and old. Its about white and black. So that is the long title. But the short title we returned fighting speaks to what happened after the war and how africanamericans use world war i as a transformative event for them just like it was a transformative event throughout the globe. And well explore that story throughout this hour of the washington journal. It is day five of museum week on the washington journal with our friends at American History tv on cspan3. Throughout this segment we invite viewers to join us, phone lines split up regionally. 7027482000, and a special line set aside for africanamerican veterans 2027488002. We would love to
Return fighting, the africanamerican experience from world war i. This is about an hour. We take to you smithsonian muse jimbo to we return fighting, the africanamerican experience in world war i now with the guest curator, please explain the meaning behind that title. It hints at a story beyond just two years of service and fighting over there. Actually, exactly. We returned fighting, the africanamerican experience in world war i. The key to that title is, number one, you dont see the word military because its not just about soldiers it is about soldier and civilians, about men and women, about young and old, about white and black. And so that is the long title. But the short title we returned fighting speaks to what happened after the war and how africanamericans use world war i as a transformative event for them. Just like it was a transformationive event throughout the globe. Ve event t the globe. Well kplor kplor that story. Well explore that story and invite viewers to join us. 2
Kinder will look at the way hollywood has shied away from graphic war wounds sorry, look at the way that the hollywood has shied away from graphic war wounds and how a military propaganda can downplay the wars relentless consumption of life and limb and how they deserved to be removed from the margins to the center of the american war story. In this talk, he will explore the history of american war through the bodies of five disabled veterans. What emerges is a portrait of a nations struggling and often failing to mitigate the human cost of military conflict. We welcome dr. Kinder from Oklahoma State university where hes an associate professor of history and american studies. Hes the author of paying with their bodies, american war and the problem of the disabled veteran. Which came out two years ago from the university of chicago press. Hes currently completing a book on the history of zoos during world war ii. Please welcome john kinder. [ applause ] thank you. Let me just arrange th
Everything thought it bypassed the United States is doing to search, i found how extensively the range of artists, not only high artists but popular artists, commercial artists, we digesting the war. And actually after the troops came home. Steve you teach this attitude at wake forest university. What drew you to this topic . Mr. Lubin i knew the anniversary of american involvement in the war was coming up. I thought, we were living in a time this was the early 2000s. I was thinking about how the war that we were facing, the wars in the middle east has a huge influence on the way we were thinking about things. I thought it must have been same back in the day a century earlier. It was more a question i had in my mind, why wasnt it similar . The rejection of anything to do with war. Normal shows a desire for war. Not for war. It roiled peoples consciousness. Thats what i kept discovering again and again. Steve lets set up our involvement in world war i and why we were involved, late in t
Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Thanks for joining us. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in coatesville tonight. Chris the community is mad. Reporter thats right iain. Someone out there is stealing american flags from the streets of coatesville. Some of them taken during the citys july 4th celebration of all nights. Now, Coatesville Police understand they admit its not the crime of the century but it is a crime that has some peoples blood boiling. Kind of felt hurt. Felt slighted and felt like Somebody Just slapped me in the face. Reporter john palowski has good reason to be upset. You would be, too if you saw this. Id rather not say on here what went through my mind. This is not something that coatesville deserves. Reporter Surveillance Video yo shows a man an woman swiping through american flags from the 300 block of lincoln highway, stolen and drug along the street just a couple of hours after july 4th fireworks fireworks. And this is whats left of another flag ripped down