Service Resource Center to examine items left at the wall. High. My name is janet donlon. For thepecifically Vietnam Veterans memorial collection housed here in the museum Resource Center and landover, maryland. Is a facility for the National Capital region parks. Our collection specifically is housed entirely in this building. We are a collection of objects that are left at the memorial, the Vietnam Veterans memorial. People come by the memorial every day and leave objects at the memorial which our park rangers collect. Every two weeks or so we do a pickup. We bring them out here to our Resource Center where he sort through them and catalog them and make them part of our collection. I have chosen some objects to show you from the collection. They cover the range of topics the collection interprets, including ptsd, mothers and fathers, lost children. They will be going on display soon and i think they are really good examples of the type of things in the collection. This was left at th
We have a topic today that, we think, is one of the best we have come up with. It is a neglected civil war story because of the neglected march on georgia. There is little bit less attention on his other march, which followed that march. Take a look at this scowling man in that fantastic coke, as we begin talking about him. So, i am going to talk to john. Who, as you heard, has written two wonderful books about william sherman. And i think we need to know, i dont know how you can do in a few minutes, we need to know who this guy was . His family, psyche. Tell us something about this fellow in the doublebreasted uniform. John this picture that you see was taken of sherman. He did not want to have it taken. He is not a happy camper. This is not the best picture of him. But its very briefly, sherman has a very difficult childhood. His father dies and he is nine years all. He goes to live with a neighbor, while his mother is living just up the street because she simply cannot afford to tak
By the memorial every day, leave objects at the memorial, which are part rangers collect, and then every two weeks or so we do a pickup at the memorial and bring them out here to our Museum Resource center where we sort through them and catalog them and make them part of our collection. This card was left in 2000. Barry,left by allen for elen for barry. My dearest barry, it has been 31 year since you were taken from a, but you remain in my heart. , thevisit the memorial ring i gave you on your 18th birthday. Always know that i love you still, although i married and have three beautiful children. I will mourn for the family we were never given the chance to have. Me home lord brings again, i know i will meet you and share many memories. I feel that the purpose of the collection is to help people to get over the things that happened in the past and to remember specifically the men who died in vietnam. This collection kind of lends a helping hand to that. Eople will leave things the proce
Have more men could go overseas. She worked in washington, d. C. Where she worked as a payroll person. In the 1920s, the fears of immigrants which had been boiling during the time of the great migration to america started to come to a head and eventually leading to the johnson reed act of 1984 which effectively ended immigration by ins instituting quotas. This would of course become a very difficult thing, an obstacle ten years later when a lot of European Jews could have used another safe harbor during the rise of the nazis. The 1920s was a rise of antisemiti antisemitism, largely due to the immigration surge that had happened up until the 1920s. So here we talk a little bit about that, about henry fords antisemitism and the protocols of zion, this was a fraudulent document purportedly outlining a jewish conspiracy to take over the world. It was published during the 1920s. In the 1930s, there was a sort of cultural flourishing in america despite the depression. A lot of really rich ar
Antisemitism and the protocols of zion, this was a fraudulent document purportedly outlining a jewish conspiracy to take over the world. It was published during the 1920s. In the 1930s, there was a sort of cultural flourishing in america despite the depression. A lot of really rich artistic activity and so in this area, we look at the rise of the movies in the 1930s, as well as yiddish theatre. We look at the wpa that supported artists in the 1930s. We also look at the political situation in america, a lot of people were espousing different concepts like socialism or zionism. We also explore religion in the 1930s. Congregation shari eli was a south philadelphia immigrant synagogue that opened its doors in 1918. By the 1980s, membership slacked off and the congregation would soon be closing its doors. People moved out of the neighborhood and they didnt need the big sin nothing anymore. Someone from the congregation called our museum and asked if we would like to go in and see their tora