History written by the i like to say to the winners go the history. Theyre the ones telling the story. All right . Unless theyre doing this in war. But this is the way it usually works. So you usually get their perspective. All right. Were going to see that a lot in this war where youve got a lot of patriots, American Revolution stuff. Had you read the spring chapter to get the british perspective. Their version is a little different. What other challenges do you run into . Kate . Uncertainty who won what battle and all that stuff. You do run into some uncertainties. Again, lots of different perspectives here. You may have some bias. Generals like to make themselves look good. Wars are nice for promotion. So, yeah. Got to be really careful about your sources. As historians you know not to take everything at face value and military guys, generals, officers doesnt mean theyre always right. Anything else . Other things . Okay. Also you have issues with, like, how, trying to reconstruct a
Different than duck hunting. So youve got to give the men practice. They would each get two flights before they were sent overseas as gunners but youd have women often flying these planes this is a shot of two women flying this b17 while it shoots at the target of the other plane. This is live ammunition, of course. It is no good to use fake. Live ammunition, color coded bullets. They did this with a wide variety of different planes. These women served as civilians until the 1970s when they started a Grass Roots Campaign to be recognized as veterans. Its an incredible campaign, and they finally were given veterans benefits. This is at the congress after they testified. This is 1977 when president carter finally recognized them as veterans in the United States. All of their papers are here if you want to serve as interns in the womens collection, we have that. And you can work with their papers directly. But again, we could have an entire semester on women in war and this is just a quic
The Olympic Games till next year saying the events in 2021 will represent victory over the coronavirus. And new yorks governor makes a plea for more medical supplies saying that the state is in danger of being overwhelmed. Below the death toll from the corona virus continues to rise in europe france has just reported more than a 1000 deaths from the illness and the number of fatalities in italy are now more than double that of china for 2 days it seemed as if italys outbreak was slowing but on tuesday that number of deaths spiked again rising by more than 740 and dashing hopes that the outbreak had reached a plateau meanwhile spain has recorded its highest daily number of deaths and confirmed cases and there are concerns that Frontline Health workers do not have the protective equipment to shield them from the virus and after weeks of speculation the tokyo 2020 a limb picks has now been postponed for a year japans Prime Minister shinzo abbay says hes determined to hold the games in ful
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His numerous books include the return of George Washington, a New York Times bestseller, to the edges of the earth, winner of the 2019 National Outdoor book award. And some are for the gods, the scopes trial and the american the continued debate oversight of religion for which he received the Pulitzer Prize for history. He was an inaugural library fallow at National Library for the study of George Washington located on the grounds ofra mout vernon. He lives in malibu, california. Please give a warm savannah welcome to edward larson. [applause] thank you very much. Youre welcome. Thank you very much, thank you for having me back to savannah. In the spring when the essay deals are out. Thats always my favorite time. And as note i i taught for 20 years at university of georgia. Thats what i started as a young professor, and eventually was chair of the History Department and those are some of my happiest days. And and i want to give a shout t today two of my oldest friends in the world, or