On sunday, book tv brings you the latest on nonfiction books. Funding comes from these Television Companies and more, including. Im a. D. And digger halperin, the senior mellon postdoctoral fellow in womens history public history at the New York Historical society. Tonights program, the chinese lady i am the senior mellon postdoctoral fellow in womens history and public history at the New York Historical society. Tonight program, the chinese lady, afong moy in early america, will last approximately 45 minutes, including 15 minutes for questions and answers. Now i am delighted to introduce the speakers tonight. Nancy davis is curator emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of american history. She works on exhibitions focusing on material culture, asian influence on American Culture, migration and immigration, and business history. For scholarly work focuses on womens history, asian influence on American Culture and trade. She has a phd in american studies from George Wa
Im a. D. And digger halperin, the senior mellon postdoctoral fellow in womens history public history at the New York Historical society. Tonights program, the chinese lady gaga way in early america, will. Approximately 45 minutes, including 15 minutes for questions and answers at the end. And now im tonights program will last approximately 45 minutes. Including 15 minutes for questions and answers at the end. Now im delighted to introduce tonight speakers. Nancy davis of the Smithsonian Institution no. As curator she works on exhibition material culture, asian influence on american culture, migration and immigration, and business history. Her scholarly work focuses on womens history, asian influence on american culture, and sinoamerican trade. She has a phd in american studies from George Washington university in washington, d. C. And has taught at a graduate level at numerous colleges and universities. Her books the chinese lady came out from Oxford University prep in july 2019. She i
What were known as red legs. Jayhawkers. These are kansasians as he admits in his autobiography who feels the kansasans picked on them. To cross into missouri and get their revenge. So hes in an informal j jayhawking kansas regiment fighting in missouri. Then in 1864 he joins the kansas seventh which is the notorious jayhawking regimen. If you were a missourian and i said kansas seventh, you would know what that meant even probably today. And they had such a Bad Reputation for what they were carrying out in missouri that they got sent away from the kansas missouri border. He did see some service in the south and by the end of the war, hes back in st. Louis. Well, what did Buffalo Bills childhood in bleeding kansas and in his youth as a jayhawker in the civil war mean to him . You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all our video is archived. Thats cspan. Org history. In 1911, the triangle shirtways factory in new york caught fire and 146 workers died
The delphi university. I am a founding university of the remember the Triangle Fire Coalition and a coauthor with my colleague andi sosin of the new york city triangle factory fire. I will briefly introduce my colleagues on the panel and they will have more time to tell you about themselves shortly. All of us are members of the remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, which you will hear more about as we discussed. And we are all committed to keeping the memory of the victims alive and visible. We began our Work Together as part of a team organizing a citywide commemoration for the centennial of the tragedy in 2011. This rapidly spread from a citywide commemoration in new york to a national and international Generations International commemorations around the world. Were educators, activists, and historians. Briefly, dr. Mary anne trasciatti is a professor of rhetoric at Hofstra University as well as president of the remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, which we are finding is no small t
Hundreds of thousands of civilians are trapped in the fighting. Im brent goff. Good to have you with us. It sounded good, but is it better not to believe . That is the question here in europe. The u. S. Vice president , mike pratt mike pence, spending the day in brussels, seeking to reassure eu leaders and allies of washingtons commitment of working together. First, he said that the United States will always be europes greatest ally and he told nato that it was time for its members to pay their full share of the cost of the alliance. We will have analysis on that and a moment, but first this report on his visit to the European Unions headquarters. [ [chanting] not a particularly warm welcome to his visit, but a protesters camped outside, eu leaders had long been looking forward to his visit. Let me first of all thank you for this meeting. We all truly needed it. After all, there was much to discuss in his First Official visit to the European Union capital, with the eu foreignpolicy chi