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American military history. And today were going to continue our conversation about the second world war. And specifically were going to look at an aspect of the war through the lens of industrial mobilization. Industrial mobilization is often understood as a key to allied victory in this war. It is often said the allies win because they outproduce the axis powers. Im sure many of us heard it, encountered it, youve read it, but one of the problems with that line of reasoning is that if it is simply amount of stuff that produces victory, at the beginning of the war the axis powers possessed more. So the argument about stuff cannot absolutely establish ultimately the trajectory of allied victory because the allies for a long time are deficient in that quantity of stuff. The other aspect of the material argument if you will, that the allies outproduce, thats understated, oversimplified in almost all literature you consider related to the war, we have no clear sense of how the stuff is buil
Good morning class and welcome back to history 3290, modern American Military history. Today, we are going to continue our conversation about the second world war. And, specifically we will look at an aspect of the war through what we call the lens of industrial mobilization. And, industrial mobilization is often understood as the key to allied victories in this ward. It is often said that the allies win because they out produce the axis powers. Im sure many of us have heard this before and perhaps encountered it or read it. But, one of the problems with that line of reasoning is that if it is simply an amount of stuff that produces victory. But at the beginning of this war the axis powers possessed more. So that cannot absolutely establish ultimately the trajectory of allied victory. Because, the allies for a long time are deficient in that quantity of stuff. The other aspect of the material argument, if you will that the allies out reduced and overstated and under simplified. In a al
Just a few quick details before introduce myself. First, please take a moment to silent your mobile devices. Second, you will notice we have cspan recording tonight program. For information regarding todays broadcast please check out the replay section of our website. Also the first time ada missoni and program we extend a warm welcome. For any members, we thank you for your ongoing support. Without you the programs would not be possible. Tonight we are very pleased to welcome elizabeth kopp. Elizabeth is an Award Winning novelist and documented filmmaker, author of eight books including nonfiction and americas first lemon soldiers in the New York Times bestselling historical novel the hamilton affair. Her newest novel the command is available for sale after the program outside of the lecture hall. With that said, i know were alla in for a fascinating talk, without further ado i would like to please join me in welcoming elizabeth cox. [applause] thank you so much. I really honored to b
Check out the exchanged website. For any members we think you for your ongoing support. We are very pleased to walk up to that smithsonian elizabeth cobb. The author of eight books including the nonfiction the newest novel is available for sale. Its available outside the lecture hall. I know we are all in for a fascinating talk this evening. I am really honored to be here i cant think of any better place to launch a novel like this here in washington dc. Thank you so much for being a part of my first audience. To talk about Harriet Tubman. Im really very honored we begin with the mistry that we all love mysteries. On june 1, 1863. Two u. S. Gunships crash up a river in South Carolina. In a river that started with under water mines. The river leads deep into that part of america is that is known as enemy territory. 300 uniformed African American men in a small handful of white officers that were led by colonel he once who once rode with john brown. They are creeping half of which is str