Negro league specifically. You just walked into an old all part. The only difference in this ballpark is that you will need some new baseball heroes. When you walk in to the ballpark, the first thing that you see is the field. Of legends. He field the field of legends is a mock baseball diamond that houses 10 of 12 lifesize negro league greats. They were positioned at as if they were playing a game. The firstsent 10 of group of Negro League Players to be inducted into the National Baseball hall of fame. That is how allstar teams are chosen. On the outside looking in is the late great john buckle. The only one of our collection of statue set is not in the National Baseball hall of fame, and in my belief he should have capacity, the cofounder of the Negro League Baseball museum is managing this great allstar team that we assembled. In and see this incredible display, and we hope it invokes the desire that, i cannot wait to get out there and walk amongst though statues. Baseballgro League
Our beloved president dwight eisenhower. He is a graduate of Wichita State and emporium state. He served in the United States for five years. Thank you for your service. He is the author of many articles on a variety of subjects. These include eisenhower, dday, ulysses s. Grant, and prison baseball. Of course. I hope you enjoy our program today. Please welcome with me, tim rives. [applause] thanks everybody. Tim thanks everybody. Great to see such a nice turnout during the middle of the week. Really appreciate it. The food has a large part in the attraction of these events, not just the wonderful speakers we attract. Thanks to the foundation and the trust. All this started a couple years ago in 2015 because it was the 125th anniversary of his birth. 1890, the year that he was born was theyear that the frontier was declared closed. We did a number of programs looking at 125 years. I did one on the influence of the frontier on his political thinking, imagination. I will include a little
Mueller investigation costing taxpayers and how does it compare to other investigations . Andrew noble of the Washington Times joins us for that. Live at 7 00 eastern monday morning. Join the discussion. Disher, cspan is touring cities across the country, exploring American History. Next, a look at our recent visit to kansas city, missouri. Youre watching American History tv, all we can, every weekend, on cspan3. The Negro Leagues Museum in kansas city, missouri. Here we document the story of black baseball in america in general, and the professional negro league specifically. You just walked into an old all an old ballpark. The only difference in this ballpark is that you will need some new baseball heroes. When you walk in to the ballpark, the first thing that you see is the field. Here it is the field of legends. The field of legends is a mock baseball diamond that houses 10 of 12 lifesize negro league greats. They were positioned at as if they were playing a game. They represent 10
Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Its great to see the conversation, everyone having a good time. The food was wonderful. We welcome you again to this. Unch Panel Plenary session im going to introduce the moderator and the moderator will introduce the panelists. I am happy to introduce our panel moderator. Professor mcdowell is the professor of literary studies and the director of the College Institute for africanamerican studies at the university of virginia. She has been a member of the uva her booksnce 1987 and include studies of fiction by africanamerican women as well as numerous articles and in scholarly publications. Professor mcdowell has been extensively involved in editorial projects pertaining to africanamerican literature. Me in welcoming professor deborah mcdowell. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Thank you, marcus. Thank all of you for your presence. Thanks to the organizers for this wonderful event they have , with many more exciting panels to come i task, decidedly simple
You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all of our videos are archived. That is cspan. Org history. The novembere of 7, 1917 Russian Revolution, about 2. 5 million russians had been killed in the great war and some 6 million had been wounded are taken prisoner. Up next on American History tv, russian history professor Olga Porshneva discusses how the russian soldiers believed and their attitudes towards the war and how it contributed to their unrest and the revolution and birth of the soviet union. Was hosted by the kansas city war museum. It was part of a twoday symposium on the war. Olga porshneva is a professor of russian history at the university in russia. She has given she has been given the highest distinction in russia of the best doctoral thesis in the field of russian history in 2000. She is the author of more than 250 published monographs and articles. Is a memberrshneva of the Russian Association for the First World War studies and the ex