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To be with you because really there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with than teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life from high school, from college, and also people who are involved in teaching public history by working in museums and historical sites, and so forth. All of that has had a huge influence on my life. I dont think i would be writing History Today were it not for two very good history teachers that i had when i was in high school. Let me tell you a little bit about how i came to the subject that im going to talk about today. I have, for a long time, as long as long as i can remember, been obsessed with the First World War. I had relatives on both sides of my family who fought in several different armies. And it has always sort of seemed to me, as one historian put it best when he described the First World War as the original sin of the 20th century, and so much of what has afflicted us in the last 100 years comes direc
Senate it is my honor to welcome you here. We are going to have a conversation about the intersection of Early American History and contemporary political issues. If this is your first visit to the institute, i want to welcome you to our fullscale replica of the United States senate chamber. We arekennedy institute, committed to engaging the public in a conversation about the role each one of us plays in our democracy and our society. We do that through Civic Education programs that bring the United States senate to life and conversations like tonight that bring American History into focus. Partnerery proud to with the Massachusetts Historical Society on todays program. They are an invaluable resource for american life, history, and culture. All of us at the institute are proud together together a group of panelists for the Program Including our moderator, fred tice. He covers news related to politics in Higher Education at sincehere he has been 1988. Serving as a trusted source of tru
It has been a exciting for us to see how engaged history educators are even when they cant either. Im grace leatherman, executive director of the National Council for history education. We are loving doing this online conference with you. Mr. Hochschild it is a pleasure to be with you because there is no kind of person i more enjoy talking with ben teachers of history. Teachers of history have been tremendously important in my life from high school, from college, and also people who are involved in teaching public history by working in museums and historical sites. All of that has had a huge influence on my life. I dont think i would be writing History Today were it not for two very good history teachers i had when i was in high school. Let me tell you a little bit about how i came to the subject that im going to talk about today. I have, for a long time, as long as long as i can remember, been obsessed with the First World War. I had relatives on both sides of my family who fought in
Delighted to have Joshua Hammer back with us at the p p and josh was here first last book about four years ago. Host that would of course was a bad librarian, timbuktu. And it told the riveting story of how an argument in timbuktu and manage with a very brave helper, this mobile more than three or 50000 historical manuscripts out from under militants to safety about 600 miles away. The book was a bestseller and establish josh, as someone for night for some really truly great stories. Any student again with his new book, the falcon thief which recounts another true and gripping tale of adventure and this one about wildlife. Josh is a journalist by trade and other pretty adventurous globetrotting run himself. He was working for newsweek over nearly two decades. He joined newsweek in the late 1980s as a Business Media writer, and within a few years he was off the cover the rest of the world on postings that make him in, nairobi, berlin, jerusalem, cape town and back here in the u. S. In l