Coronavirus the postponement of the plan Olympic Games. Were bringing you a conversation about the 1936 olympics held in nazi berlin. There are so many compelling stories from this moment in history ranging from the personal experience of athletes to the german governments campaign to camouflage its discriminatory policies. Please join me in welcoming todays guests. First dr. Damien thomas, who is the sports curator at the National Museum of africanamerican history and culture. Hi, damian, good morning. Good morning. Thank you for having me. Im excited to participate in this conversation. Glad to have you on and maybe sometime well actually meet in person instead of just through a box on the screen. Our other guest is my former colleague dr. Daniel green. Danny is president of the Newberry Library in chicago, and he also served as curator of the holocaust museums Current Special exhibition americans and the holocaust danny also conducted research for an earlier exhibition about the 193
Good morning. Thank you for having me. Im excited to participate in this conversation. Glad to have you on and maybe sometime well actually meet in person instead of just through a box on the screen. Our other guest is my former colleague dr. Daniel green. Danny is president of the Newberry Library in chicago, and he also served as curator of the holocaust museums Current Special exhibition americans and the holocaust danny also conducted research for an earlier exhibition about the 1936 olympics here at our museum in dc. And so were glad to bring him back to share some of that knowledge. Hi danny i had no. Thanks. How are things in chicago . Things are all right. As much as anywhere. We ask you our viewers to please post your questions for our experts in the Comment Section and well get to as many of them live in the course of the show as we are able. Also if you experience any technical glitches during the course of the show, dont worry about it. Dont stress it will be available to v
Session of the washington history seminar to order. I want to welcome everyone to this seminar subtitled historical perspectives on international and National Affairs this afternoon. We will be focusing on a new book by the princeton historian Laura Edwards titled only the clothes on her back clothing and the Hidden History of power in the 19th century United States published by oxford university, press in late, february and joining us this afternoon as discussions are martha jones of Johns Hopkins and Megan Sweeney of the university of michigan. Im eric arneson from the George Washington university cochair of the washington history seminar along with my colleague Christian Osterman of the Wilson Center who cannot be here today. The washington industry seminar is a collaborative nonpartisan venture of the woodrow Wilson Centers history and Public Policy program and the american Historical Associations National history center. And for over the past decade the seminar has been meeting we
The Hidden History of power in the 19th century United States published by oxford university, press in late, february and joining us this afternoon as discussions are martha jones of Johns Hopkins and Megan Sweeney of the university of michigan. Im eric arneson from the George Washington university cochair of the washington history seminar along with my colleague Christian Osterman of the Wilson Center who cannot be here today. The washington industry seminar is a collaborative nonpartisan venture of the woodrow Wilson Centers history and Public Policy program and the american Historical Associations National history center. And for over the past decade the seminar has bee been meeting wey and precovid times in person at the Wilson Center and since the pandemic well, here in the virtual realm behind the scenes two people make these seminars possible pete bierstecker of the Wilson Center and Rachel Wheatley of the National History center, and id like to thank institutional supporters th
This seminar subtitled historical perspectives on international and National Affairs this afternoon. We will be focusing on a new book by the princeton historian Laura Edwards titled only the clothes on her back clothing and the Hidden History of power in the 19th century United States published by oxford university, press in late, february and joining us this afternoon as discussions are martha jones of Johns Hopkins and Megan Sweeney of the university of michigan. Im eric arneson from the George Washington university cochair of the washington history seminar along with my colleague Christian Osterman of the Wilson Center who cannot be here today. The washington industry seminar is a collaborative nonpartisan venture of the woodrow Wilson Centers history and Public Policy program and the american Historical Associations National history center. And for over the past decade the seminar has been meeting weekly and precovid times in person at the Wilson Center and since the pandemic well