In these records, you can discover human lives and how the great and small events of history change them. Today, we will hear the stories of the men who sailed the uss indianapolis during world war ii. The cruiser sinking in july, 1945, just weeks before japans surrender in the war was the worst sea disaster in history. It can also help unravel mysteries even decades after the events took place. Last summers identification of the location of the wreck of the indianapolis was aided by historians discovering a log Landing Craft had seen the indianapolis the night before she sank. Just this month, the navy was able to settle the question about the number of survivors because of Research Done in the records housed in our facility and our National Personal Records center in st. Louis. Some stories are easily told. Others take 73 years to come to light. By preserving the records of our ensure the Building Blocks of our stories will be available now and far into the future. Lynn vincent, a u.
Coauthors of indianapolis the true story of the worst sea disaster in u. S. Naval history and the fiftyyear fight to exonerate an innocent man. I often refer to the stories in the National Archives. We are not just a storehouse to billions of pages and miles of films that hold stories of our past. In these records, you can discover human lives and how the great and small events of history change them. Today, we will hear the stories of the men who sailed the uss indianapolis during world war ii. The cruiser sinking in july, 1945, just weeks before japans surrender in the war was the first the worst sea disaster in history. It can also help unravel mysteries even decades after the events took place. Last summers identification of the wreck of the indianapolis was aided by historians discovering a log Landing Craft had seen the indianapolis the night before she sank. Just this month, the navy was able to settle the question about the number of survivors because of Research Done in the re
Is history. Historical questions can also answer questions in unravel mysteries out even decades after the events took place. Last summers identification of the wreck of the annapolis was aided by a just this month, the naval the navy was able to settle the question of the number of survivors because of Research Done and records housed at our facility in college park and the National Records center st. Louis. Some stories are easily told, some take 73 years to come to light. By preserving the records of our past, we ensure that the Building Blocks of our stories will be available and far into the future. Lynn vincent, a u. S. Navy veteran is their number one New York Times bestseller and coauthor of 11 nonfiction books. Best known titles are same kind of different as me and heaven is for real. A veteran journalist and author of more than a hot thousand articles, have estimated pieces of been said it before congress in the u. S. Supreme court. Sarah vladeck, the documentary filmmaker is
Up next, we visit the Indiana Historical society madam cj walker empowering women exhibit learn about her impact in the two early 20th century. Madame walker was mainly known for being an entrepreneur, having her own hair care line and cosmetics company, and being a millionaire. She was born in 1867 in delta, louisiana. That is two years post emancipation. We are talking about the throes of the vestiges of slavery. She was the child of enslaved parents who became sharecroppers. Poverty was a way of life for them. And working hard from sunrise to sunset from an early age was part of her life. She was orphaned very early, around the age of six, moved to the experiment, mississippi, with a sister. She then moved again to st. Louis to work with her brothers who were barbers. There is no lockstep for what African American womens lives were during the turn of the century. Many worked on farms. Many were sharecroppers. Many could not get education and could not have the job of their dreams be
Past 15 years where she is conducting research on africanamerican medical personnel that served during the american civil war. She has curated several exhibitions including binding wounds, pushing boundaries, africanamericans in civil war medicine, and has authored several articles that have appeared in prologue magazine. Traces, a publication of the Indiana Historical society, and several Online Publications and blogs. She is currently working on a book on africanamerican civil war surgeons. Please join me in welcoming jill l. Newmark. Hi and good evening. Thank you for that nice introduction. I want to thank jake and the Claire Barton missing soldiers museum for this opportunity and invitation to come and talk to you about this subject, about africanamericans who served as nurses and surgeons during the civil war. The story of africanamerican medical personnel that served during the civil war, its an often neglected part of Civil War History and theres been very little written on the