Controversial race between Rutherford B Hayes and samuel to lynn exploring the american story. Watch American History tv saturdays on cspan2 and find a fu sedule on your Program Guide or watch online on cspan. Org history. Welcome, everyone to the National World war ii museum. Appreciate you joining us for our regular lunch block series. My name is chrissy gregg, director of teaching and learning at the museum. Im thrilled my colleague, Maggie Hartley, director of public engagement, usually in this role introing people but shes in the spotlight presenting today. Her lecture is entitled more than just hemingways wife, the wartime journalism of martha gill horan. I would love to turn it over to Maggie Hartley for her presentation. Thanks very much. Thanks for the introduction. It was interesting being on the other side of this. Im excited to do my first lecture at the museum since joining the team. So as many of you have figured out, this is about Martha Gellhorn. We will talk about hemi
Irector good morning. My name is Maggie Hartley and im the assistant director of Public Engagement here at the National World war ii museum. Thank you for joining us for todays lunch box lecture. Todays lecture is entitled winning the peace, mcarthur at the occupation of japan. With amanda williams, the manager at the mcarthur memorial in norfolk, virginia. This lecture was rescheduled due to hurricane idas impact on Southeast Louisiana and was designed to commemorate the end of the war in the pacific. So, now, without further ado, ill now turn this over to a mandate to share about general mcarthurs unique approach to the occupation of japan. Thank you, maggie. Thank you to the World War Ii Museum for having me. Today, im going to give you an overview of the occupation of japan and tried to explain why it could be considered one of the most effective occupations and history. I think, as history demonstrates, great battlefield victories can often unravel in the occupations that follow t
The arts is history students. You know me. Im professor april mastin we are very fortunate today to have a guest lecture president of Stony Brook University maury mcginnis. Id like to tell you a little bit about her the title of her dr. Mcginniss lecture as you can see is the shadow of slavery in public life. This topic is relevant not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. Dr. Mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularly the politics
This topic is relevant not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. Dr. Mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularly the politics of slavery. Shes an awardwinning author coauthor and editor of six books including two books on this topic slaves waiting for sale abolitionist art and the american slave trade and educated in tyranny slavery at Thomas Jeffersons university. Which for which she won . The she was awarded the Chelsea Eldridge b
The arts is history students. You know me. Im professor april mastin we are very fortunate today to have a guest lecture president of Stony Brook University maury mcginnis. Id like to tell you a little bit about her the title of her dr. Mcginniss lecture as you can see is the shadow of slavery in public life. This topic is relevant not only to our inquiry into how the arts can be researched as a window onto the past. But also how they affect the present or in the words of James Baldwin how history does not merely refer to the past history is literally present in all we do. The research and for this lecture and the lecture itself was inspired by the students of the university of virginia who thought that the university wasnt adequately representing how the labor of enslaved people helped to create that institution. Dr. Mcginnis is a renowned scholar and cultural cultural historian of the relationship between art and politics in the colonial and antebellum south particularly the politics