Good morning. It is a pleasure and an honor to welcome all of you here for our presentation this morning by alex kershaw. My name is side bunting c y bunting. I work at the world war ii memorial and have the continuous honor and privilege of being from thatmany heroes period in our history and to thosee their families and interested in learning that andory more thoroughly making up the deficiencies, i may say, of the extent to which that history is being taught in our schools and colleges, particularly in our schools. The ignorance of the history of our country, and particularly of its military history, is being being ignored it is widely ignored and that has got to be fixed. One of the best people to fix it, of course, is our speaker this morning, alex kershaw. We feel in the 75th year of the anniversary of dday, particularly close to what we call the greatest generation. On memorial day, we honored who have paid the supreme sacrifice and all of our wars, but we have always felt a par
Regular lunch box lecture series. Im the director of teaching and learning at the museum. Im thilled thrilled that my partner, shes usually in this real introing people and actually shes in the spotlight lecturing today. Her lecture is titled more than hemingways wife, Martha Gellhorn. Id love to turn it over to maggie for the presentation. Thank you so much, maggie. Thanks for the introduction, its 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 guys have figured out, this is about Martha Gellhorn. Were going to talk a little about hemingway as well because you cant talk about Martha Gellhorn in world war ii without talking about the infamous ernest hemingway, so, one of the things that, you know, i do want you guys to keep in mind is that like this whole perception of martha, you know, how did she get to where she was where she did become a famous war time correspondent . Was it based off of her wo
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
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