for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need to build a whole bunch of new stuff. you need a whole bunch of new or retooled or expanded facilities to build that stuff. you need a lot of people to work in those facilities, so they need a place to live. the math is simple, right? on paper, that s all very rational. that all just follows. it s very logistical. it makes sense. in practice, though, it was its own kind of war. while detroit resi
uniforms, everything. the government opened defense production facilities all over the country. factories, they either retooled the existing ones, or they built new ones. and in some places, there were particularly large defense production facilities, either a large number for retooled plants, or a bunch of new ones that were built. one of the things that emerged quickly as a bottleneck for our country mobilizing for that war was this conundrum of where all the workers would live, who worked in these newly built and newly retooled production plants? in an already crowded city like detroit, for example, the government of 1941, realized that they re gonna have to quickly add hundreds of thousands of units of housing in order to bring in hundreds and thousands of new workers to staff these defense production facilities that were being retooled from civilian use in detroit, or in fact newly opened to make more material in that city. and that math is easy to see, right? you need t
So give this your take what is going space. The killing that occurred at the university of maryland last week that has been linked to the alt right movement because of suspected is listed as of day Facebook Group listed as the altreich because those two people were defending defending, two teenage girls against the assailant who was showing antiislamic racist slurs at the two ofd them on a light rail trade and then they ended up giving their lives for telling him to pipe down and w to leave the girls alone. Gir so some of these episodes have been viewed as examples of rising violence on the far far right to since president s trumps election and his campaign so this is something that strikes me that when brock above was called upon repeatedly toon take a strong stand against violence and racist policies around the country. Simil president drug has a similar obligation it took him four days to respond with a tweet that held the compassion of a wet noodle. Host and for the press a News Co
To be three months to the day after march 6, 1944. That road to berlin to exhibit, one of many exhibits on display at the World War Ii Museum in new orleans. Our cspan buzz is parked right outside the c museum where historians and curators will be joining us to talk about the end of the war that occurred 70 years ago, 1945. Joining us live now on board, gentlema we saw to cement myth ago, keith huxen. Thank you ray much for being with us thank you very much for being with us. Your museum is part of the 21stcentury model where you it waso experience what like. It is much more than artifacts and display. How did that come about . Mr. Huxen are museum exley has a great investment in the museuml narrative our actually has a great investment in the personal narrative, the men and women who fought in the war. That tradition goes back to our founder, Stephen Ambrose, who incorporated history into his book. The approach of the personal narrative, and trying to bring things to life for people o
Museum is part of the 21st century model where you really begin to experience what it was like. How did that all come about . Our Museum Actually has great investment in the personal narratives of the individuals, men and women who fought in the war, and that tradition goes back to our founder, the late dr. Stephen ambrose, who incorporated oral histories into ceo was partd our of the faculty along with ambrose, his best friend at the university of new orleans, and so that approach of the personal narrative and trying to bring things to life for people on a personal level really began with ambroses work, and when you hear those descriptions from people, i think our overall effect grew out of that organically towards larger environments in storytelling that we try to put into our exhibits. Take us back to the early 1940s. The japanese had attacked us at pearl harbor in december of 1941. Yet the u. S. And its allies really have an approach that would allow the troops to go to germany fir