Welcome. We are delighted you are here. Briefly, the center is a relatively new project and our mission is to bring to bear on a a host of contemporary issues. We host Public Programs like these. We have a blog where historians write for us about contemporary hit issues from a historical specter. We are in the midst of a collaboration with the Philadelphia Inquirer to have more historical scholarship in local journalism. We have a number of things here in kansas and out in the community. If your joining us for the first time, welcome. We are delighted you are here and hope you stay connected to us. We have other programs and events for you to attend. We hope this is the beginning of a long relationship with the Lepage Center and villanova university. For those of you tune in on cspan or on our livestream, i should let you know this is the fourth in a series we have done this year on the subject of rigid revisionist history. You may be thinking, is revisionist history a contemporary iss
World war ii. Scholars talk about the many ways people engage and learn about the holocaust on the internet. The we pa Lepage Center hosts the event. The previously United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Historian Daniel Greene gave us a tour of the exhibit he curated americans and the holocaust. Part one focused on the 1930s. In part two, we learn about the America First movement and how the United States responded to nazi persecution and murder of jews as some of the atrocities became public knowledge. This is about 45 minutes. In 1939, on september 1, germany invades poland. World war ii breaks out that week. Whats on americans minds in 1939 is staying out of war. You see in this section of the exhibition deep concern in the United States about spies, about nazi spies in the United States. At the time, called a fifth column. Americans are asked by gallop, do you believe germany started to organize a fifth column of spies . 71 of americans say yes. You see this fear of spies played
Seminar we try to provide. I am christian ostermann. I direct the policy center here at the Wilson Center and i have the honor of cochairing this with my colleague eric arnesen, from washington university. This is a joint initiative between the National History center and the history and Public Policy program here. We are in our ninth year. I hope to see many of you again for future sessions. Let me thank the Lepage Center for public interest, as well as the George Washington history department. We also want to thank a number of anonymous donors who make these meetings possible and we welcome contributions from all of you in our audience. Details are in the back of the flyer. A couple people who do the heavy lifting behind the scenes. Rachel wheatley, the assistant director of the National History Center Rachel are you here today . Where are you . Thank you. As well as our talented interns, who you will meet during the q a. They will help with microphones. We finally want to acknowledg
Thank you, jeff. Im honored to moderate this panel with four dear friends and valued colleagues. There is a concern afoot that as a moderator i might let it go to my head and try to interject myself too much in the discussion. So i will sit down there while they make their presentations and will come back up here during the actual q a time. You have the detailed bios of the speakers in your program so i will not repeat those first is professor richard emerman. His bio says he recent retired from temple university. I know richard well. Richard does not know the meaning of the word retirement. We are Close Friends and collaborators and the state Department Historical Advisory Council and he continues to be active as a scholar and mentor and is an active citizen in the guild of National Security scholars and historians. Next to him is a professor mel leffler of the university of virginia. Again, another titan in the field of diplomatic history. I started reading his books as an undergrad
Scholars talk about the ways in which people engage with and learn about the holocaust, on the internet and in classrooms, Historic Sites and museums. The Lepage Center for history at Villanova University in pennsylvania hosts the event. For those of you who are joining us for the first time, my name is jason and i am the center for history and the Public Interest here at Villanova University. How many of your joining us for the first time . Quite a few. Welcome. We are delighted you are here. Briefly, the center is a and ourly new project mission is to bring to bear on a a host of contemporary issues. We host Public Programs like these. We have a blog where historians write for us about contemporary hit issues from a historical specter. We are in the midst of a collaboration with the Philadelphia Inquirer to have more historical schaller ship in local journalism. Of things herer in kansas and out in the community. If your joining us for the first time, welcome. We are delighted you ar