Civilians from 1942 to 1948. Many u. S. Visit from german japanese and italian descent. This is about 45 minutes. [inaudible] good evening. Thank you and what a pleasure it is to be here in austin texas the greatest bookstore in the country. Im the editor of Texas Monthly magazine and im so pleased to be here. The one secret that i have learned is when you like and admire the author that youve are introducing you keep it short and get her appear onstage. I would say how special it is to be here and what a nice pleasure it is. As we all know jim was raised in the pine woods and got the book for writing and reading in her household when she was growing up because there were books about because of her mom and dad in at the age of 16 took a parttime job at the weekly newspaper in her hometown of cleveland at the cleveland advocate and from then she has never stopped writing and went to the university of texas the teenager list covering politics first in san antonio and then off to bigger l
100 years have been followed. That women have been an integral part of the electorate system doing Little Things that have made voting a privilege that many of us have as a habit. Youre exactly right. We need to create that habit because in the United States were still 35 is a very good turn out and thats not right zmip. We still have a ways to go. I think youre absolutely right. I cant answer all of your questions but i certainly hope that conversations like this are a good place for to us start and i think youre exactly right. Suffrage was just a means to an end. It was one part of it. Then 100 years of work thats happened since then and certainly as weve discovered not discovered tonight but mentioned tonight there are plenty of other things we as women are interested in, we want to learn about, we want to educate ourselves and we want to make sure were telling those stories of the women that we just again arent at the tip of our tongues most definitely and i certainly hope as we mo
Of course, allied american cover in particular is far too strong for it, but its kind of their last gasp. The idea is they have to have the American Fleet in a place where they know they can find it. They dont have enough fuel to sail around the ocean. Even if American Power werent an issue. Yes . Also right here they launched 355 kamikazes. Although we did some back and sink the yamato and escort ships as well. Absolutely. The American Navy suffers more deaths at okinawa than they did in their whole previous rest of the pacific war. Now how does that play into the japanese strategy . Got to cause the pain, right . Thats the whole idea. Wear down the american will by causing casualties. Okinawa is almost ideal from the Japanese Point of view. They cause horrific casualties to the American Land forces, the length of the battle forces, American Navy to stay off okinawan waters, especially the kamikazes. But okinawa does fall. And the japanese high command very quickly realizes whats most
Coming up, American History tv on cspan 3 looks at the dropping of the atomic bomb during world war ii. Next grant weller teaching a class on american and japanese strategies leading up to the dropping of the bomb. Then a debate on president trumans decision to use the atomic bomb. Later president trumans zbroond join survivors of hiroshima and nagasaki to consider the legacy of the atomic bombs. Next u. S. Air force Academy History professor grant weller teaches a class on americas use of the atomic bombs against japan at the end of world war ii and examines japanese social and political attitudes. This is just under an hour. Outside standing. Take yo outstanding. Well finish your survey of the Second World War with ten of the asiapacific war. Before next week launching into a more detailed discussion about the war without mercy. We start off with the surrender ceremony on the 2nd of september, 1945, with the demonstration of air and naval strength that macarthur and others arranged t
Schools mostly in nigeria. They attacked the capital. An Egyptian Court has sentenced 183 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death. The men were found guilty of playing a role in a deadly attack on a Police Station in 2013. But human Rights Groups say the ruling is too heavy handed and are calling for it to be overturned. Staterun media said monday the verdict was handed down. Members of the Islamist Group were convicted of killing 15 victims, including police officers. They opposed the current government established after former president Mohamed Morsi was exiled a defacto coup. Muslim brotherhood leaders have been sentenced to death or life in prison. Deeply concerned about the decision. It simply seems possible that a fair review of evidence could be achieved through mass trials. We continue to call on the government of egypt to ensure due process on individual cases for all egyptians and discontinue the practice of mass trials. With Amnesty International says the death sentences are