Focus a little bit to east asia. Professor Fredrick Dickenson teaches japanese history at the university of pennsylvania. He has degrees from Kyoto University in japan and Yale University where he has a phd in history. He has been a visiting professor at institutions in japan belgium, in this country among his books are war and national reinvention, world war i and the triumph of a new japan. He will spike on the great war as world war. Welcome to professor dickenson. [ applause ] thanks very much. Thanks to all of you for sticking around for the final bash here. Im honored and delighted to be the last headliner i guess and to be able to use the opportunity to sort of go a little global. We have sort of steadily made our way outside europe. I am going to try my best to get us even farther. I do want to thank the mcarthur memorial also the Hampton Roads naval museum and old dominion to inviting me here. It is a personal honor and privilege for me and i think it is a personal honor and p
Childrens children, this great and free government. I happen temporarily to occupy this big white house. I am a living witness that any one of your children may look to come here. As my fathers child has. The nation is worth fighting for. To secure such an inestimable jewel. [applause] [applause] every sunday at 8 00 p. M. And midnight eastern, learn from leading historians about president s and first ladies, their policies and legacies, here on the presidency. To watch any of our programs or check our schedule, visit www. Cspan. Org history. Youre watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. All weekend long, American History tv is joining our media Cable Partners to showcase the history of columbus, georgia. To learn more about cities on our 2015 tour, visit www. Cspan. Org citiestour. We continue with our look at the history of columbus. This is American History tv on cspan3. Jeff seymour we are in the National Civil war naval museum in columbus, georgia. We a
Not just a southern thing. Omaha, nebraska. St. Louis, chicago, illinois. All erupted in race riots. Millions of workers, about 4 million workers are going to go on strike in 1919. And this wave of labor unrest then fed into this conservative mood. It seemed to spark hysteria. This is a time when we are dealing with the red scare. The red scare with the bolshevik revolution being so fresh, that americans now determined that perhaps bolshevism had come to the american shores and were undermining the capitalist system as we speak, right . So in this climate there is a very harsh reaction to labor unrest in 1919. There were accounts of violence that seemed to be tied to the labor unrest. The u. S. Post office during 1919 intercepted dozens of bombs that were being mailed to prominent americans. They did not intercept all of them. One of them blew up on the front door of mitchell palmers house. Mitchell palmer was the attorney general of the United States. Heres the thing about the red sca
For nearly a century. Fort benning was established on macon road in columbus, georgia, on approximately 85 acres of land in october of 19 18th 1918. On that day the war came to a close and there was talk of closing fort denning. Many officers who had served in the American Expeditionary forces to france went before congress to testify that had our soldiers had better training they would not have suffer the casualties that they did in just 210 days of actual combat, so it was determined by congress that we would keep fort benning on a smaller scale and luckily for us, it survived. But first, go on board the css jackson, one of only four surviving ironclads dating back to the civil war. We are in the National Civil war naval museum on the banks of the chattahoochee river. The purpose of the naval museum is to tell the stories of the navys during the civil war. We are the only facility that focuses entirely on that particular story. We are in a unique place, right here inside the museum a
We are on the banks of the chattahoochee river. The purpose of the naval museum is to tell the story of the navies in the civil war. We are the only facility that focuses entirely on that story. We are in a unique place right here inside the museum, right here inside the museum are the remains of the ironclad that was built in columbus during the war. Specifically, we are about midship of the vessel. This section was missing. It fell apart during the recovery process, and this was a great Vantage Point to take a good look at how this thing is built, and what areas are used are different purposes. For different purposes. An ironclad is a wooden ship. You still have to build the structure of the ship out of wood. On the outside of it, above the waterline, is iron plating. This provides the ironclad to the vessel. If you want to think about it like this, it is like putting a man inside of armor. Most of the ironclads are used in coastal waters and rivers and what they were designed to do