Every july for 25 years, the Gettysburg Anniversary Committee has hosted a civil war reenactment and living history village depicting camp life. We visit a union army surgeon and and ballmer and talk to and embalmer. During the very beginning of the store, the war, there was a lot of quack surgeons in the union army. When a general took over the medical corps, he devised the whole thing around. He created an ambulance corps so we could get men off the battle quicker. He had the surgeons do tests to be army qualified. Thats where it got better. 3 million fought, 600,000 died. 700,000 wounds on that battlefield. What i was dealing with at that time was the musket. It went in like a finger and came out like a fist. It shattered the bone so bad, there was no way i could repair it. Even today, they would have to amputate because you blew that bone apart survival rate was great. 78 survived amputations, but it decreased to 60 due to disease. It there was nothing wrong with one of them, had n
Good afternoon. My name is barbara and i am a bilingual educator, interpreter, organizer and work with the Madison Public Library Community Engagement with the design and implementation of spanish bilingual storytimes. Im very honored to introduce a conversation between david, great writer and historian of medicine and many other parts of the world, who works with the Washington Post and marie arana. With david and marie our colleagues at the Washington Post. Im happy to introduce author, editor, journalist, literary critic and member of the Scholars Council of the library of congress. Marie is peruvian american and her work and bodies who she is as a historian, novelist, essayist and human being in this modern world. Her books include american chica, american liberator and silver, stone and sword three crucibles in the latin american story. Silver, sword, and stone is an epic book. It is a history not of only 11 america for over a thousand years going back, but it brings all of this h
This event. Tonight we are very pleased to welcome to the smithsonian tony, australian born perpetual explorer, travel, writer and author of six books including napoleons privates 21 years of history unzipped, the centers grand tour, a journey through the underbelly of europe, and most recently the improbable revolution that changed world history. As a College Student tony regularly disappeared to hitchhike through the outback and travel through rural india where he briefly enjoyed an inglorious career as a film extra. Based in the east village of manhattan he makes it a point to continue exploring in iceland, beijing, tasmania to name a few. Tonys travel stories have been published in magazines like the New York Times and Smithsonian Magazine and have been translated into a dozen languages having been selected 7 times for the best American Travel writing series. Hes also a regular television guest on the History Channel where he has spoken about everything from the crusades to the bir
Politics and music in the first half of the 20th century. He describes how music can be a tool of outreach and xenophobia, depending on the Political Climate of the era. Good afternoon. Hello, everyone. Im amanda shondra. Its my pleasure to welcome you here today for Classical Music and American Foreign relations, a complicated duet. Thank you to our members. Its your support that keeps us going. Thank you so much. Were going deep into the december before the holidays. Its a pleasure to have you. If you are not yet a member, if you are curious about our membership levels or programs, talk to me or any of our volunteers just outside the doors. You can pick up a copy of the magazine if you dont have one already. Find us online at smithsonianassociates. Org. Please take a moment to silence any mobile devices or your cellstonecel cellphones. Good to doublecheck because we have cspan in the house. Your ring tone will be saved. Thank you. Just an additional note. Our exits we have one in the
Starts here. That tradition that military tradition, and its usually important. So one thing i do, when i do military history, as i theres a modern phrase, im not a fan of the phrase, because it gets misconstrued. It is too impersonal, it makes you forget that there are real men real women, who are wearing these boots, who are off doing things, to be able to keep us safe. Right. We need to remember that. So every time we fight about it, we have the boots, here to remind us of those people. And like i said its been a long time, 250 years since we fought this war with these guys, with george with a continental army. We need to honor their sacrifice. We need a new tier. You all voted for independence, and so we cant yell god save us anymore. But in 1775 will yield hustle. The 18th century way. We yelled hip hazza. Company dismissed. Hello everybody good evening, welcome to tonights presentation. Also special bus tonight, they would like to acknowledge that this is simpson circle, that is