That are also important to consider. Thank you. Learn more about the people and events that shaped the civil war and reconstruction every saturday at 6 00 p. M. Eastern only on American History tv here on cspan3. Howardptor sabin discusses the process behind creating a soldiers journey, component of the new National World war i and memorial. The National Civic art society hosted this event and provided the video. Justin. Lemy name is i am the president of the National Civic arts society. We are delighted you could join us this evening to hear sabin howard resent his classical design for the National World war i memorial. Founded in 2002, the society educates and empowers our leaders in the promotion of public art and architecture worthy of a great republic. We do so by advocating for the Classical Tradition and civic design. We believe that tradition is unparalleled in its dignity, beauty, and harmony and not to mention its legibility to the common man. It is no accident that the Found
Was brief but impactful. History colorado hosted the event and provided the video. We have dr. Judy gaughan here. Associate professor of history at the Colorado State university in pueblo and is one of the organizers of the womens Suffrage Centennial summit in colorado, a values partner in the womens cocentennial is writing a book holly andrie clydde american first. Thank you for being with us today. Dr. Gaughan dr. Gaughan thank you, mike. I want to say thank you to the center for colorado womens history for hosting what is a fascinating lecture series. Hopefully it will continue to be fascinating today in february 2018, as i was happily strolling the streets of rome metaphorically speaking, i joined 16 other women to celebrate the centennial of womens suffrage. As the first meeting of that is soon to be name womens Suffrage Centennial of southern colorado i learned the significance of this did not strike me immediately. I began to do research to celebrate the colorado centennial 125
Prof. Garcia hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing to europe at this very moment. Can anyone tell me from what countries they are fleeing . Leighton. Ok, syria. Any other countries . Tess . Im sorry . Kosovo. Prof. Garcia sarah . Russia. Prof. Garcia any other countries . Stephen . Eritrea, thats correct. Patrizio. [inaudible] prof. Garcia thats correct. Thank you. So they are traveling very long distances to find refuge in europe, and this map gives you an idea of the routes and distances they are traveling in order to reach safety. Some are traveling alone, others are traveling as part of family units. Some are traveling in search of economic opportunity. Others are literally fleeing for their lives to escape war, devastation, rape, and forced conscription into armies. The vast majority of the refugees are syrian. Can anyone tell me why the syrians are fleeing . Ok, thank you. Albert. Civil war. Prof. Garcia civil war, absolutely. Would anyone else like to venture talk . Meredi
How this transformation occurred and the impact it had on future wars. Heritage heritage frederick provided the video. Book . Did you read this write this book . Paul it had never been told before between the covers of a book. Conversations, but in 2005 i went to the Eisenhower Library and did a lot of thearch there and i went to military library in chicago which is probably the best military library in the country. There may be one better, but it is extra ordinary and i started working on this book. I started developing it. I wrote for other books in between. Those were sort of to keep bread on the table so to speak. I just became haunted by the story and tried to get deeper and deeper into it and discover who the people were, who saved the country. For me it was a revelatory go to libraries and places and book sales and try to look up some of the things i write about in this for like the maneuvers example and found almost nothing. I had to really dig and go through a lot of archives
America army making the all volunteer force is beth bailey book from 2009. Her most recent an army of fire how the us army confronted its racial crisis in the vietnam era. We appreciate you spending a little time with us here on good morning, everyone. My name, happy saturday. Welcome. The immigration quota act. A century later, groups and long shadows. My name is magdalena marie nati and im a stay with Adolphus College in minnesota. Im currently the president of the Immigration History Society and i coedited with erika lee, a special issue of the journal of history on the origins and of 1924, from which this panel has drawn before. I introduce our presenters today i would like to briefly describe what the 1924 immigration act was. Those of you might not be familiar with it also being taped. So i think our audience will be really interested in that. The 1924 immigration act banned entry of most immigrants from because they were ineligible to naturalize it imposed. National origins quot