We will explore the history of this midwest city parent coming up, the sinking of the steamboat, one of the many to sink on the dangerous waters of the Missouri River. It sank within minutes. 150 passengers on board were terrified and no one died. But they lost all the freights , goods and cargoes belongings. Third 132 years until the until we dug it up. Nationalter, visit the world war i museum and memorial and see a collection of posters involved in the comments in the conflict. True socialere the media of the day. Really what they meant to the various countries. With thein our look mayor, james. Isphysically, keep it 480,000 people spread across the 318 square miles, about 1460 per square mile. 30 smart when you get down to it. Roughly 30 africanamerican, 11 latino, 5 various mixes of immigrants and cultures there. The rest, caucasian. Kansas city has a variety of neighborhoods and an extremely sophisticated purpose and culture, things people might not expect. ,e have tremendous spo
Know that this program is being filmed by cspan to be aired at a later date, so if you enjoy tonights program and would like to see it again or if you think your friends would like to see it, we should check periodically over the next few weeks to cspan. Org and see if its up. Sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for them to run a show and other times it could be one or two months, so its worth checking periodically. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker, dr. Lindsey fitzharris. Dr. Fitzharris tells me as a little girl she used to drag her grandmother fromet cemetery to cemetery so that she could hunt ghosts. Though some thought she was obsessed with death from an early age, she like ared to think she was simply fascinated with the t past and with the people who lived there. Thus began her lifelong on to session with history. On to session with history. Dr. Fitzharris received a doctorate in the fields of science, med kin and technology from the university of oxford. In 2010 she w
If you would like to view other after words programs online, go to our web site, booktv. Org, type afterwards into the search bar and all previous after words episodes will be available. Welcome to springfield, missouri, we visited the city to explore its rich history and literary culture, located 80 miles east of the kansas border, springfield wag the site of many major conflicts during the civil war. Today it is the their largest city in the state, with a population of 167,000. With the help of our partners at media come, for the next hour and ten minutes well explore the local literary culture, starting with jeremy, the border between them, and as he shares the story of bleeding kansas, a conflict occurring along the kansas missouri border in the struggle over slavery. And the question of whether kansas territory would be open for slavery or free soil. Violence of 1850s is really about that question and becomes wrapped in so much more. You have sites over water and access to grazing
Force in eastern ukraine. She said putin would never tell me because i was the minister msn not. Unfortunately it happened. The violence in the conciliation and the story of the book is the story of an invisible line across the prairie landscape, and its creation and its contested meanings during the civil war era and the difficulty of the people along that line to move on with their lives in the late 19th century. The violent dispossession of group after Group Beginning with the ice age indians continuing through the mormons who had moved to western missouri under joseph smith entered the civil war era freedom and the question of whether kansas territory would be free and so the violence of the 1850s is really about the question but it becomes wrapped in so much more. Typical to other frontier locations of water and access to raising millions the magnifying credibly. Bleeding kansas is what will make a territory and inflates date from spreading into kansas. It is mostly missouri settl
It takes an entire community to mobilize during the war. Theres the image of women and children. , workers in industry. And you will get a chance to see what inspired individuals to becoming gaged in the war effort at the turnofthecentury. There is much to learn here at this museum, and we have just had an opportunity to share a fraction of it. It has been a pleasure having you here. We look forward to seeing you at the National World war i museum. Watch this or other american artifacts programs at any time by visiting our website, cspan. Org history. Now, we continue our look at world war i posters at the National World war i museum in kansas city, missouri. American history tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. Posters in world war i were the true social media of the day. There was no television or radio, and posters were used by countries all over the world in the war to impress their ideas upon the passerby, and make them do things that the government wanted them to do. People r